St. Johns Bridge Portland, Oregon

We frequently hear visitors to our booth at Portland Saturday Market mistakenly call the St. Johns Bridge "Cathedral Bridge" and the Willamette River "St. Johns River"?    

Further, we heard one visitor tell his guests that the bridge was built over 200 years ago . . . Lewis and Clark would have really appreciated having the bridge waiting for them!

Come to Mesman Images booth 216 near the food court and see our pictures/canvases and digital paintings of Portland's most beautiful bridge or check out our YouTube video about the making of the picture below.

Dean Caldwell, who climbed El Capitan in 1970, is at Portland Saturday Market every weekend

If you didn't attend the showing of the documentary Valley Uprising last night, you missed the story of our very own Dean Caldwell climbing Yosemite's El Capitan in 1970.  We don't know if one has to be crazy or immensely courageous to climb these very beautiful, vertical, and impressive granite walls.

Read Life Magaziene's article of Dean's drama. 

Valley Uprising was an extremely interesting documentary, showing the battle between those intense climbers, striving to be the first, best, or quickest to the top, and the park rangers, who were determined to enforce rules that restricted the freedoms of the adventurers who saw Yosemite National Park as their climbers' paradise.

Today, Dean has traded his climbing shoes for woodworking tools, as he creates inventive and practicle jewelry displays under the name Ear Nest.  His product's design is so original, it earned him a patent.

Every weekend, you can find him in the 200 row at Portland Saturday Market in Waterfront Park.

After buying one of Dean's jewelry displays, head north in the 200 row and check out Mesman Images' (space 216) Photography and Digital paintings.

  

Mother's Day sales 10% off (mention this blog) Down Town Portland, Oregon

We will be part of the First
Thursday Art Walk in the
Pearl District today, May 1st,
from 6pm to 10pm come out
for a stroll, remembering how
lucky we are here in the Pacific
Northwest, compared to the
victims of the recent devastating
tornados in the South.
                                                   

     We are Mesman Images
     selling photographs and
     digital paintings of
     beautiful Oregon with
     Urban Art Network in the
     Pearl District from 6pm
     to 10pm today May 1rst
                                                                                    
                                                 
                                                

                                                               

                                                     

Weekend at Portland Oregon's Waterfront

Did you know that there are actually three different weekend markets at Portland's Waterfront?

The oldest, existing since 1974, is the only juried one.  Portland Saturday Market (open on Sundays too!) doesn't allow imports from China, nor can its vendors sell items that aren't handmade or selfmade.  Portland Saturday Market is not to be confused with the Skidmore Market and World Market, both of which are set up right next to the Portland Saturday Market, and selling items originating from anywhere in the world.

Check out the quality of the creative items sold at Portland Saturday Market  (Sat10am to 5pm and Sun 11am to 4:30pm)  and come visit us at the Mesman Images booth on the waterfront space 216 near the food-court and get 10% off any purchase.

Fall at Portland Japanese Garden, photographed by Yvonne Mestre - available as a canvas or fine art print

Hand-made products at Portland Saturday Market - Open on Sundays too!

Saturday and Sunday . . . are you looking to do something different this weekend?  Check out  Portland Saturday Market where imports from China and mass-produced products are banned and hand-made original and creative products are the norm.  Pass by the Mesman Images booth space 216 near the food court and check out our new photographic and digital painting panels . . . they are printed on canvas and adhered to birch and are ready to hang.  Mention this blog and get 15% off.

Check out our new Panels at Urban Art Network's "First THursday" of the year

Today is the "First Thursday" of the year in Portland, Oregon.  We will be at NW 13th between Irving and Johnson in the Pearl District.  Come to see us at our booth "Mesman Images" and check out our new canvas panels.

Portland's Buckman Art Show and Sale opens today

Buckman Show and sale opens this Saturday at 11am . . . come and check out our space . . . Mesman Images, YvonneMestre.  Sunday's open from 11am to 5pm.  Check out Mesman Images new video

                                                                                                        

A beautiful day at Cannon Beach, Oregon

Mesman Images is hard at work preparing for 2014 sales . . . new pictures, new canvases, new ideas, new displays, new set-ups for the coming season of outdoor markets, work on our Website and our two Etsy shops . . . all keeping us more than busy.  We're on hiatus from our outdoor shows during January and February but we're are still open for business Online and by Phone, Email, and appointment.  While January isn't the best month to photograph landscapes, the weather lately has been quite accommodating, as the sample above shows. . .


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The best for 2014 from Portland, Oregon!

Here's a last look at Portland, Oregon's skyline for all people who are leaving town after having spent the holidays with family.  We wish you all bon voyage, good weather at your destinations, and most of all, the best for 2014!                                                                                            Mesman Images

Cold, Cruel Cold, Icecold days in Portland Oregon

Don't you wish that you could change these frosty winter days in Portland to a warm, sunny day in a lavender field?  Or, like our dogs Lucie and Sophie, spread out on the couch with your favorate toy  and dream, rather than working outdoors like we have to?!

Small Business Saturday at Portland Saturday Market

 Small Business Saturday - Shop Small - Come and see us at Waterfront Park under the Burnside Bridge, booth #208 Mesman Images.  Portland Saturday Market is open today (Nov30th) from 10am to 5pm.  Support local businesses!



 

Spark Some Ideas for Christmas Gifts

Tomorrow, November 23rd, will be sunny and 49 degrees here in the Pacific Northwest. Portland Saturday Market (Oops . . . open on Sundays, too!) will be open, jam-packed with numerous artists selling creative work that could cross some gifts off of your Holiday list or maybe spark some ideas for those hard-to-shop-for family & friends.  Come down to the Waterfront and see our latest
6" x 16" digital paintings in booth #208, Mesman Images, under the Burnside Bridge. See you then; mention this post and get 10% off!

 

By the way, don't forget to bring your furry friends, for whom the walk through the market site is paradise and the best social training a puppy could ever receive! 

St. Johns Bridge, Portland, Oregon

Do you like Portland's St. Johns Bridge?  We do!  Here is a series of images of the bridge in one digital painting by Yvonne Mestre.  Come and see it in person this weekend at Portland Saturday Market (oops! also open on Sundays) Our booth #208 is safe and dry under the Burnside Bridge in Waterfront Park. 

The Year's Last First Thursday in the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon

Today November 7th is the year's last "First Thursday Art Walk" in the Pearl District here in Portland, Oregon. Don't forget to buy your gifts locally!  We are Mesman Images, selling photography and digital  paintings as well as handmade pendants, ornaments, and magnets displaying our photography.  We buy all our supplies in the US, helping to support 7 other businesses besides our own.  This evening, we'll be located on NW 13th between Hoyt and Irving.  Rain or shine, 6pm - 10pm.

Grotesque Halloween

 Last night, Halloween, was the year's last Last Thursday on Alberta, here in Portland.  And. . . it was grotesque!  While on all other Last Thursdays the street was closed to traffic, yesterday it was re-opened and it seemed like the public said, "Let's go elsewhere" . . . Those of us who very much needed to add some sales to our bottom line were there only to watch kids trick-or-treat in the early evening and contemplate the empty streets once it was dark.

What's so terrible is that, we, the artists, who have for years helped to get people interested in Alberta's Art Walk every Last Thursday, have been forgotten as the event has been transformed into  a "Drink Fest".

Hello Portland, . . . how about reinstating an Art Walk on Alberta or elsewhere in the city, to thank Portland's art community for its efforts to put Alberta's Last Thursday on the map.

This weekend, come visit the Mesman Images booth #208 at Portland Saturday Market, beneath the Burnside Bridge.  By the way, the Market is also open on Sundays!

Oregon Landmarks Collage

We've created a collage that combines some of the beautiful destinations in the state of Oregon, the most visited of which is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. Also not to miss is Crown Point, with its Vista House overlooking the Gorge. The illuminated buildings of Portland's waterfront skyline are reflected in the Willamette River. Two views of the state's highest peak, Mount Hood, and the magnificant Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast round out the scenery. The collage wouldn't be complete, however, without J. Seward Johnson's Portland sculpture "Allow Me". Here, the pedestrian's umbrella shields him not from a Portland downpour, but, rather, a light spray from Multnomah Falls. You can Purchase this image on our fine art photography website.

New Vertical St. Johns Bridge Triptych

We've just listed a new version of our Portland St. Johns Bridge triptych. While the one before had square cropped images, this one utilizes the full-frame vertical rectangles. And, as always, these vertical triptychs are perfect for those narrow spaces next to doors, above light switches, or on the side of cabinets. You can purchase this triptych framed or matted from our Fine Art Photography website.

Paul Bunyan's Halloween Party

The economy is bad, sales have sunk, summer is over. Portland's Paul Bunyan thought that was reason enough to throw a Halloween Party! You can see the "party picture" on the home page of our Fine Art Photography website. By the way, the snapshots used for the picture are in our opinion from the greatest carnival in the world -Fasnacht in Basel Switzerland-.

Portland, Oregon Neon Sign

This flickering neon sign is towering above the Willamette River in Downtown Portland. The words Made in were just recently changed to read Portland. You can purchase this image from our Fine Art Photography website.

collage of various images of Portland Japanese Garden

Here is a fantasy created with images from the Portland Japanese Garden. This photographic collage includes the Garden's Sapporo Pagoda, the stone steps in the Natural Garden, and one of the Garden's magnificant Japanese Maples, shot in the Fall. Portland Japanese Garden is worth a visit during all seasons. These above prints can be purchased either matted or framed from our Fine Art Photography website