Paint Burlingame celebrated its 5th anniversary today with some fabulous art. The premise is artist start at 9am, go out and paint "plein air" scenes of B'game. Bring their finished work to the Avenew and sell it to the rest of us local art lovers. 10% of the proceeds go the Historical Society and numerous local sponsors contribute everything from the space to refreshements, signage, etc. All in all a totally cool local event. Here is one of the walls in the old Malouf's space showing some of the art.
A well-regarded local artist did the judging in the youth and adult categories. All of the honorable mentions and the two grand prize winners were great, but the one that caught my eye was the Western Termite guy we featured here. Check this one out by Kevin Kasik!
Nicely done! Art Attack! provided a lot of the volunteer effort and the Historical Society partnered beautifully as usual.
I love this event - we were fortunate enough to have an artist on our street - super cool...
Posted by: Burlingame Betty | September 30, 2013 at 03:07 PM
It has been a pleasure to help organize this event for the past five years. The art is getting better each year and the crowd is growing as well.
Posted by: Russ | October 01, 2013 at 09:15 PM
I don't know how to post photos, but many lovely pieces of artwork created that day, can be seen on this link....click on the title "Paint Burlingame" on the Historical Society page
http://burlingamehistory.org/category/news/
Posted by: jennifer | October 02, 2013 at 01:38 PM
The termite man is fantastic! It is always amazing to me how many townsfolk don't know where he is.
Posted by: hillsider | October 03, 2013 at 10:08 AM
I'm going to post this twice--here and on a related June 2010 post.
Peter Hartlaub who went to BHS and now writes for the Chronicle did a piece today about lost landmarks and the Western Termite guy (and Menace the Mouse) made the listing:
RIP: 2018
Never forget: The Western Exterminator “Little Man with a mallet” was created in 1931 for a Yellow Pages ad, with a man in a top hat and sunglasses looming over a small rat. A large sign with a 17-foot man appeared at the pest control’s Burlingame headquarters just off Highway 101 years later. The man received international fame in the 1980s when Van Halen used the logo for their “1984” tour T-shirt.
Where is it now? As reported by The Chronicle’s Annie Vainshtein, the sign was removed but preserved when Western Exterminator left Burlingame in 2018.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/lost-landmarks-san-francisco-bay-area/
Posted by: Joe | July 02, 2022 at 04:17 PM