Happy New Year From Fig Street Studio

 We all wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. May 2014 begin a full recovery from the business loss caused in 2008. Hopefully art will become something to invest in and homes will display art from local business, not prints made in foreign lands. See http://www.figstreet.com/studio for links to all the art we create and sell on the web world wide. And thanks to those who support small local businesses.

New Orleans Art Studio Web Store

  Fig Street Art Studio sells art and comical designs on shirts and other gift items on the web at its Cafe Press Shop. Art posters, prints,framed prints, ceramic tiles and more from New Orleas sold at this link.

Paintings by New Orleans Artist JK Schwehm
Sale on limited edition prints from New Orleans Artist JK Schwehm. Famous local sights paintings, landscapes, historic buildings, and other New Orleans centered post-impressionistic paintings by self

Mid City Art Studio of JK Schwehm Artist

Although our old Fig Street Guest House closed due to Hurricane Katrina I have now begun to open a Mid City Art Studio on N. Solomon St off Canal right on the Streetcar line. I use the "studio" to stay overnight in New Orleans when I have to be in New Orleans for weddings, art, or business. It serves as a New Orleans office, wedding chapel and I am able to sub-let it to people as a corporate rental when I travel away from New Orleans. For the details on when the "Mid-City Art Studio" is available e-mail me or telephone me, email is MidCityStudio@figstreet.com, phone is 504/617-6359. Close to Jazz Fest, City Park, and streetcar ride to French Quarter. Reasonable rates for corporate style rental with all that is needed for a week or weekend stay in New Orleans JK Schwehm Mid City Art Studio Here is some info on Google Local with a map- Google Local Map of Mid City Studio (and wedding place)

Fig Street Art Studio Info

Welcome!
To the Fig Street Art Studio's art blog.. Famous New Orleans Paintings and Graphic Art by New Orleans painter JK Schwehm. Prints can be signed just e-mail before purchase.

Unique Gifts, Tiles, Prints and Shirts for adults and children: Creative gift ideas from Alliagtors to Zydeco. Louisiana art, Cajun, French Quarter and more nice gifts and shirts creatively designed. Get us to design one for your club or group. E-mail jerryschwehm (at)yahoo.com

We relocated to the New Orleans North Shore after the storm but some art sold in store in French Quarter, Arius Gallery, Jackson Square. New Orleans art, paintings, cards, t shirts and more painted and designed by New Orleans Artist JK Schwehm. Please stop in and see my tiles of New Orleans as I saw it before the storm and as I see it after the storm. Come back and visit here as I add new items each week. Recently several paintings have been chosen to illustrate books. See below. I finished working on a mural for a restaurant see http://bigredstreetcar.blogspot.com/ to follow it.

http://www.amazon.com/PoBoy-Nettie-Mystery-Alice-McDaniel/dp/0595344607/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1291814317&sr=1-1

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"The last thing practical, no-nonsense 36-year-old New Orleans schoolteacher Nettie Dunbar expects when she gives fourth-grader Anthony detention is having the business end of a gun jammed into her face. But that’s just one surprise that awaits Nettie when she discovers he’d been living on his own in the small shotgun unaware that his mama was lying dead in the shed out back." At Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Muddy-River-Stars-Akron-Poetry/dp/1931968497/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291814482&sr=1-1-fkmr2

"In Big Muddy River of Stars, her second full-length collection of poems, Alison Pelegrin continues her celebration of the quirks and characters of south Louisiana, tempered now by the devastations of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. These sassy poems come on like a carnival parade, with boisterous shout-outs to sleepy rivers and Big Shot soda, crawfish and trailer trash and those "git-r-dones" who rebuild homes ravaged by hurricane and high water. " At Amazon.com

Click image to get to the store on the web with lots of art for sale.

Spanish Tile Bourbon St. by figstreetstudio
Large format printing from zazzle

Creole Cottages Large Framed Print New Orleans Fig Street Studio

Black Cat at Shop Large Framed Print Chat Noir Black Smith Shop New Orleans Fig Street Studio

Support Local New Orleans Artists

Starry Night Riverboat by figstreetstudio
View more Riverboat Posters

The big box stores and some big galleries import art to sell locally even when a multitude of artists exist in a town or city. I am often told I'd love to buy your art but where are they sold...... then I hear all sorts of excuses. There should be none. My prints are priced lower than most in the big box stores, are original art, not multiple copies of the same old same old made in China. Yes, good old American made designed by local artists. Can be framed cheaply either by getting a frame locally for them or using one you have on hand. Flea markets too sell second hand frames cheaply, remove the back add in one from a local guy like me. I do that as gifts, sometimes the frame is spectacular as it is old and used, has a history like most all of my prints.
I always suggest look for a nice frame first, flea market, garage sale, then buy the size print to fit and get one of those precut mats from an art supply shop. No real reason to avoid local art. So buy local art, my prints sold on the web in several places listed below and at my local studio;

Prints sold here:

1. Fig Street Studio Zazzle Shop

2. Fig Street Studio Cafe Press Shop

3. Fig Street Studio ArtistRising Shop

4. Fig Street Studio AllPosters.Com

Or e-mail me I may have one on had signed at the studio.

There are 375 prints for sale at this Zazzle link, some fine art some comical all local- http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/posters?ps=60

Magnolia Tree At City Park by figstreetstudio
Browse Art Posters

Jackson Square-NOLA by figstreetstudio
Browse Nola Posters

Zydeco Festival by figstreetstudio
Shop for art on zazzle.com

New Orleans Art and Graphic Designs

Starry Night Cathedral by figstreetstudio
Shop for art available at zazzle

How to read this Blog

I post info about my art, graphic designs, almost daily. On the below right in Blog Archive is a chronological list of the art and designs I post but I have a lot more on my web pages.

1. Fig Street Studio at Cafe Press

2. Fig Street Studio at Zazzle

3. Fig Street Studio Home Page

Award Winning Prints At Zazzle

I have won the Days Best award for several prints this month and felt I should place all of them together in one spot so you can see them easily. So here they are.

French Quarter Black Smith Shop, by figstreetstudio
Day Best March 7,2010 at Zazzle

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New Orleans Shot Gun Home by figstreetstudio
Todays Best March 6,2010

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Rockport Boat House by figstreetstudio
Todays Best March 4, 2010- Rockport Boat House Posters

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Dutch Town At Night by figstreetstudio
Todays Best MArch 2,2010 on zazzle

Win A Print !

I need more followers on Twitter to spread the word about Fig Street Art Studio. For those who help spread the word we are offering a free copy of the above promotional print to be mailed if you win the contest. The person who is the 1000th follower of @NewOrleansPrint and RT's the below message will win a promotional print 4x5.5 inches mailed to them when they furnish a mailing address after being told they are the 1000th follower on Twitter.
The print of the Mississippi Queen docked at Natchez, MS is printed on stiff card stock paper the size of a postcard that can be easily framed in a small frame. Signed on the back by the artist.
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RT @NewOrleansPrint, enter to win a small print by being the next 500th studio news follower on Twitter see http://ow.ly/195TV #nola
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If this works well we will continue the contest at 500 followers intervals, if not we can try something new until we reach our goal.

THANKS for helping.

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In about 72 hours we added 300 followers due to the Win A Print ! contest.
http://twitter.com/DinaJ won as soon as I get a snail mail address to mail it out it is on its way, send mailing address to info@figstreet.com

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OK I will continue the contest and the next one will be each 500th follower that does the above, RT and follow.
Thanks to the 300 plus that played.

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Another winner! http://twitter.com/lovemy21B won a promotional print, more winners to come keep RT the message about the contest and see who wins next.

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I can keep the contest going as long as I have left the small promotional prints so keep playing and see who wins next.

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Another Winner! http://twitter.com/Houseonahillorg print in the mail, keep playing.

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The latest winner! http://twitter.com/YatPundit, more to win, keep playing.

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Another new winner- http://twitter.com/madly59 Keep playing.

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Latest winner http://twitter.com/saraminda

From here on I will just randomly pick a winner from those who follow and retweet a message. Keeping track of the 500th is a chore so a random draw from a follower who RT's a message is easier.

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As of St Patrick's Day I need about 300 more followers to randomly pick another winner. The initial contest worked well added in 100 followers per week then after the prices were mailed out it slowed down to a few per week. Contest is on still just followers are slowing down a lot. When I reach the next level a winner will be randomly picked again.

Fig Street Art Studio sells art prints in the UK

Starry Night Riverboat by figstreetstudio

New Orleans Fig Street Art Studio sells art prints, shirts,and gifts in the United Kingdom, Germany and other countries. Zazzle has a page in many other languages see lower left bottom for flags and click those to buy in that country. http://ow.ly/LoAX