Announcing Campbell Water Tower [dot] Com

What with our gallery selling art featuring Campbell's water tower — we decided to create a new, standalone website just of, for and dedicated to the water tower!

The website is campbellwatertower.com

For the Love of Campbell

The picture above is "For the Love of Campbell," an original watercolor by San Jose artist Dick Zunkel.

Campbell Water Tower Crazy Legs

This is an original acrylic by John Cloud

Campbell Water Tower Winter Day

We offer original art (oil on canvas and watercolor on paper) signed and numbered limited editions of selected originals, photographs on canvas, and digitally altered works. Most art is on stretched canvas ready to hang no framing required.

Campbell Water Tower Winter Dusk

The above is a photograph taken just as the sun set and the tower lights switched on.

The Gallery Was Featured in the Newspaper!

The Campbell Reporter has an article about Stone Griffin Galley in the January 20th edition.

As we feature local landmarks -- the newspaper thought the fact that we have the URL campbellwatertower.com and feature artwork of Campbell's water tower worth some ink! We agree!

Campbell Reporter's Article on Campbell Water Tower Website and Stone Griffin Gallery

The photographer came to the gallery last Wednesday with the assignment to get one horizontal photograph for the article. He shot about 75 pictures — and, of course — one was selected for the story.

I was interviewed over the telephone, and was also wanted information one one of the gallery's artists. John Cloud lives in Campbell and paints the water tower, so he was interviewed and included in the story — which you can read here.

Being that the web site was just put up this month, traffic was zero of course. Once I put up the site, mentioned it on this blog, on newsletters and such the traffic to the website is going up.

CampbellWaterTower.com Traffic Graph

This chart above is a graph of traffic to campbellwatertower.com. The traffic increases from zero (it's inception) and rises. The big spikes are probably when the article ran in the Campbell Reporter and ran again in the San Jose Mercury News.

Kind of fun to do the website and the marketing and watch the results!

"Mt. Hamilton Foothills" by Eileen Graham

San Jose artist Eileen Graham has just finished "Mt. Hamilton Foothills."

This is a 40" x 40" original oil on canvas.

This painting is of the California hills, dry golden brown grass and live oak trees just east of Mt. Hamilton, the Diablo Range of Northern California.

"Mt Hamilton Foothills" is on wooden stretcher bars with painted sides, so it is complete and ready to hang — no framing required!

Come on in and see this in person if you can!

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"California Dreaming"

Terje Nordberg, born in Norway, is now living the good life in Northern California; he is an artist showing his work here in the gallery — and he has started capturing what makes California California in a comic strip called "California Dreaming."

Terje Nordberg began his career as a comic book artist, but soon switched from drawing to writing. His popular children's books have been published in a number of countries. He has also created several graphic novels, most notably one used to promote the Norway Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

"California Dreaming" will gently poke fun at California and Californians, expose our sheer nuttiness, and allow us to laugh at ourselves in a weekly comic strip.

He is published in our local paper Campbell Express — look for it in the local coffee shops — or subscribe! Call or come in for information.

"San Francisco Giant"

Terry, a recent resident of San Jose creates artwork intended to capture and celebrate the beauty, the splendor, and the sheer nuttiness of his adopted state, and this is his latest!

"San Francisco Giant" is an oil painting of a cow holding a bat and chewing straw, dressed in a Giants uniform with the Golden Gate Bridge visible in the background.

This is an original oil on canvas, 30" x 40" and is priced at $2,100. Limited editions are available at $375 and $675.

"Alice's Restaurant" by Terje Nordberg

Just off of the easel (and the creative mind of Terje Nordberg) is "Alice's Restaurant."

This piece continues Terje's mission to capture the beauty, splendor and the sheer nuttiness of California and California Living, and with that being the goal — I feel that Terje hit the bullseye with this piece!

In this painting we see two Happy California Cows arriving at the restaurant, about to park their hot pink Vespa next to a Harley, to pop into Alice's for Brunch.

"Alice's Restaurant" is an original oil on canvas, 30" by 40", please inquire on price and availability.

The Gallery's number is 408.374-5200

New work by Don Dahlke!

The dry spell has broken — Don Dahlke has created a new piece, and the giclee of "Thirst for Knowledge" is on its way to the gallery!

It is a limited edition of 75 numbered prints and 10 A/Ps (artists proofs). The A/Ps will be priced higher than the limited editions, and will be released after the set of 75 is sold out.

"Thirst for Knowledge" is 32" x 42"