Attention All Lighter Enthusiasts! 

The second annual Central Lighter Get Together is scheduled for March 16th and 17th, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

An auction will be held on Saturday, March, 17 at 10:30 a.m.  The location is the Holiday Inn-Cleveland Airport.

Call 216-252-7700 for room reservations at $72.00 per night.  Tables are $60.00 for this 2 day event and extra tables are available for $25.00.  Please remit payments to:  Frank Mannarino, 8618 Chardon Road, Kirtland, OH  44094 or contact him at 216-970-8825 or email frainmakers@att.net. 

We weren’t able to attend last year but heard this was a fun, worthwhile event.  We hope to attend this year. 

Thanks, Kelly

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Fulvio, a young Italian artist.  Fulvio had a passion to draw since he was a child, copying comic strip drawings and later as an adult developing his own style of drawing and airbrushing.

He attended the art academy and received a degree in Artist of Decoration.  Here he learned to draw and paint on various surfaces and so he began to customize the walls of homes and doing interior designing for customers along with object designs.

In 2006, he came across Zippo lighters and what started as an experiment turned out as a new passion for a new canvas.  Four years later, he started to customize Zippo lighters with his best designs and in 2011 he attended the International Collectors meeting of the Zippo Club Germany, his first exhibition ever.  His unique, distinctive and colorful style was the eye-catcher of the event.

Fulvio continues to do various types of artwork but his true love is the Zippo and Roseart customization.  His artwork can be seen on his website:  www.Tonelart.it.

Roseart and Fulvio have collaborated with 2 one of a kind Roseart/Fulvio Masterpieces.  The first piece is called “African Woman” and the second is called “African Mask”.  They are each being silent auctioned and the auctions will be open until December 31st.  The starting bid is $240.00 each.  If you are interested in placing a bid or have any questions; please contact Kelly at kelly@roseartlighters.com or Fulvio  at tonellinigabriele@teletu.it.  These two marvelous pieces deserve a special home. 

Check out Andy Handke’s website at:

www.zippo-windproof-lighter.de

He has been adding information about Roseart in the Roseart section.  He has done an amazing job and you will learn a lot about our history and new information also.  Salute to Andy for wonderful work! 

Date:  September 16-17, 2011

Time:  Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location:  St. Bernard’s Gymnasium, 95 East Corydon Street, Bradford, PA

Cost:  $50.00 for 1 table, $65.00 for two tables (6’ tables)

$3.00 entry fee to the public

Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this show!  Thanks and we hope to see you here! 

Hi and Happy Monday to our customers and collector friends!  I am going to update our website more frequently and would like to get the blogs going to see what our customers think.  Please let us know how your online shopping experience is on our website and how we can make it better.  Do you find it easy to navigate and find certain items.  Ralph (dad) won an award locally and we are very proud of him!  He won the Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce Community and Spirit award this goes to an individual or organization that has made a significant, positive impact in the Bradford Area and its economic well-being through their volunteer, civic, religious, cultural and/or business activities.  It is certainly well deserved.  If you get a chance, send him a card or email congratulating him at wrightmonumental@verizon.net or 212 East Main Street, Bradford, PA 16701.  Thank you.  Kelly  

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See our latest collectible featuring Roger Hane’s Don Quixote watercolor artwork on the High Polish Brass Zippo lighter with color imaging as the imprint method.  It includes an insert card of explanation what the verse says on the lid and an explanation about Don Quixote on the back of this card.  Roger Hane, artist, was from Bradford, PA and was killed in Central Park, New York City in 1974.  Throughout his professional career, he produced over 300 published illustrations for many of the major publishing houses, magazines and record companies.  His style was outside the ordinary, touching on the surreal, fantasy movement of the early 1900’s.  He came from a rare class of illustrators and was nationally and internationally renown.  There are paperback and hard back copies available of the book on Roger Hane entitled “Roger Hane Art, Times and Tragedy” at the Roseart store.   

New Website and new products!  Please take an opportunity to surf through our newly updated website.  Thanks to Protocol80, Inc. we’re looking more like the 21st century and hopefully your transactions will go smoothly.  While we are still adding products and moving things around, we’d love to get some feedback from you the consumer.  How does it work for you?  Any comments or suggestions are welcome.  Please add to this blog!  Thanks, Kelly

From now through Valentine’s Day, Roseart will be giving 10% off items.  This is a website sale only.  Enter promo code 02142010 to get this discount.  Get your discount while this offer lasts!

As a child growing up in northwestern Pennsylvania, I was always fascinated with the beauty of nature. The green, yellow, orange, red and purple colors within the various leaves of an autumn forest or country side were awesome. The dazzling white snow on a clear crisp winter day painted with the bluish gray shadows of naked trees along the side of a mountain were breathtaking. The huge billowy white and gray clouds against the deep blue sky, speckled with the contrasting black images of migrating geese and other birds were truly inspirational to me. Today nature continues to be very inspirational as I search for subject matter to use within my oil paintings.

Although landscapes were not the primary focus of the art created during my childhood, the fascination with details, so much a part of my paintings today, began within the hills surrounding the small city of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Portraits of people were probably my first challenge as I began my artistic career. At that time, proportions were my greatest challenge. Color wasn't always necessary as I pursued my early passion of drawing. Through a careful study of the human form I began to develop a very keen awareness of various details on skin and hair, patterns and color changes within a persons eyes or on various articles of clothing. Details became almost an obsession for me.

Today my media of choice is oil painting. Color and value have now become as important as lines, shapes, patterns and textures. The choice of subject matter is always changing. Although I consider myself a "Realist" in style, in content, I try to choose everyday or common subjects that are detailed enough to force the viewer to study my compositions a little longer than they would normally. I am trying to help the viewers to become more aware of the world around them. Our normal day to day world is filled with very abstract images and details that most people take for granted and don't look at long enough to recognize or appreciate. It is my primary purpose as a painter to point out these details in order to help them enjoy the world a little more.

He is a Chelsea Global 2006 Competition Winner and his winning Oil on Canvas “Gurley Street” can be seen at http://www.amsterdamwhitneygallery.com/art_acquisitor.html go to page 52 to see his art. Also, he is an award winner of the Allied Artists of America Award in the Grand National Exhibition in 2007 from the American Artists Professional League Inc. His artwork entitled “Window Shopping” can be seen at www.americanartistsprofessionalleague.org/grandnational2007.htm.