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	SAM'S FAMILY DAY 2010 Completed with Star and Daisy stamps. 5000 plus people at the Old Town Spring Wine Festival. Each banner has 3500 stamps. 5/2010

	A CHILD DAISY STAMPS ON MUSLIN 4X8

	3 AS A KIND DAISY STAMPS ON MUSLIN 4X8



	ADOPT A CAT & ADOPT A DOG DISPLAYED AT OLD TOWN SPRING VISITOR'S BUREAU 2 MURALS WERE PAW STAMPED AT PETFEST 2009 4X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 11/2009

FLORIDA

	ONE HAND DISPLAYED AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN IRAQ HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2009 4X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 4/2009

	WHO MADE YOUR FLAG? ON DISPLAY IN COSTA RICA HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2009 4X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 9/2008

	WHO MADE YOUR FLAG? ON DISPLAY IN IRAQ US MILITARY BASE HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2009 4X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 4/2009

	OUR FLAG DISPLAYED AT KLEIN ART SCHOOLS HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2009 8X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 4/2009
	UP THERE! HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2009 8X8 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN 4/2009 DISPLAYED BY WILLIAM VANDERBLOEMEN
	SUN BURST DISPLAYED AT KLEIN ART SCHOOLS HAND PRINTED BY 3RD GRADERS AT KLEIN ART DAYS 2008 8X12 ACRYLIC ON 200CT MUSLIN

	Sun Burst at Klein Schools Public art with a personal touch, is on display in the Forum and Centrum galleries at the Cypress Creek Christian Church & Community Center through April 7th. The first thing you notice about the banners and murals is lush splashes of color. Then you see images, abstract and dynamic. As you look closer, you discover the "brush strokes" are actually hundreds of hand prints in all sizes blazing in color on color. Maybe one of those hand prints belongs to your child, but you won’t be able to pick it out...they all look alike. That universal similarity of hand prints led designer Pepper & Anthony Hume to the concept of hand printing banners as an antidote to the dwindling of real personal contact in this world of burgeoning communication. The centerpiece of the exhibit is SUN BURST, a mural painted with the hand prints of over 2500 third-graders in the Klein ISD. We'd like to thank you for allowing your students to participate and to invite you to come to the Forum to see the splendid results. We would also like to see this mural "tour" the various schools that participated so your students can show their friends.

	Dove Murals to Costa Rica A group of US teens went on a church mission trip to help building onto a sister church in Costa Rica. One of the things the Costa Rican church needed was refurbishing their sanctuary. Hume designed a mural featuring a silver dove with radiating rays of hand prints. Their theme of "Called to be Holy" was emblazoned on the banner in both English and Spanish. Two murals in the design were prepared. One was hand printed in the Texas church. This mural now hangs in the sanctuary in Costa Rica. They hand printed the second one to send back to Texas. Their new mural was not a gift of charity but an exchange in kind between equals.
	What Color is Your Flag? In addition to the "Called to be Holy" murals, hand printed flags were exchanged. The Costa Rican flag was filled with American hand prints and taken to Costa Rica. They hand printed the American flag which was brought back by the mission group.

	Where Are You Headed? The pastor of a contemporary worship service was doing a series of sermons on the book of Jonah. His series title was "Where Are You Headed?" To emphasize his theme they parked an orange and white VW bus on the stage! This pair of banners were hand printed by his flock during an outdoor event and hung on either side of the stage for the duration. Banners can provide visuals to underscore a message, as well as to give the people involved a sense of ownership. "My hand prints are on that.".

	FIND YOUR STAR

	Flag Exchange with Holland While we were hand printing a banner at Market Street's 2006 Fall Sidewalk Fine Art Festival, Pepper received a call on her cell phone. A doll artist in Holland was coming to Houston in six months to give a workshop. Pepper had told Marlaine about our hand print banners by email and she wants to do a exchange. How small the world has gotten thanks to the Internet. They worked out the logistics and six months later Pepper handed the Dutch artist a banner kit - a completed flag of Holland with hand prints from Texas and a US flag ready to be hand printed in Holland. In July Marlaine attended the NIADA (National Institute of American Doll Artists) convention in Detroit. She handed the returning flag to another dollmaker who passed it on to a Houston dollmaker to bring back to Pepper.

	One Hand Deserves Another Exchange with Sweden An executive spends half the year in Houston and half in Denmark. We met his wife at the airport and handed her a bag with a banner kit in it - two banners, one hand printed, one not. Wonder what she said when security asked her if anyone had given her something to take on the plane? When they came back to the US, we learned that she had taken the banners with her on a trip to Sweden and had gotten the return one hand printed there. They have since moved their US base to Atlanta so we still don't have a banner in Denmark.

	Flag Exchange with Ghana This lady came to Texas from Ghana for cancer treatment. When she went home, she took a Ghanan flag hand printed by the children of her church home here. Later she sent back the US flag with Ghanan hand prints on it. She told us that her mother-in-law in Ghana nearly burst into tears upon seeing this flag. Our friend had not known that her mother-in-law designed the flag of Ghana! It now hangs in the designer's home. The lower photo shows the standing easel frame Anthony designed to make hand printing easier.

	"Living In Hope" Banner Accompanies School Supplies to Iraq Actor Gary Sinese uses his celebrity to spearhead Operation Iraqi Children, an organization that collects school supplies and sends them to US soldiers in Iraq. These soldiers distribute them to schools and children there. Nice personal touch, huh? So in November 2004, one load of school supplies contained a "Living In Hope" banner as well! This was one of the banners hand printed at the Woodlands Children's Festival (see below) sponsored by Kiwanis Club.

	"Living In Hope" Banner Goes Home with German Exchange Students Seven German students attending a year of high school in the Houston area got in on both ends of a banner exchange. They hand printed a banner to leave here with their Texas friends and took home a banner hand printed at the Legal Eagles gallery in Tomball. What an unusual souvenir! The German translation of Living in Hope is superimposed over the English.

	Center for the Arts & Sciences Brazosport Art League Gallery - 2008 The collection of banners and murals were exhibited at the gallery in the Center for the Arts & Sciences in Clute, TX, sponsored by Conoco-Phillips. The resident art league there sure knows how to put on a party. The artists were fascinated by the concept of painting with people's hand prints, not to mention the scale of the pieces. The top photo shows the representatives from Conoco-Phillips (with one husband) flanked by the Humes. Behind them is the Green Park mural. (see below) This was our third exhibit. We were getting the word out.

	Woodlands Children's Museum Exhibit - 2007 Several murals and exchanged banners and flags were displayed during the summer at the entrance to the Woodlands Children's Museum in the Woodlands Mall. At the left in the upper photo is the tree of life banner from the Woodlands Waterway Art Festival. (see below.) The left-hand mural in the lower photo is the Rubicon mural. (see below) On the right is the Green Park mural described below.

	Rubicon Academy Working indoors on a table at the Rubicon Academy, we had to protect the children's clothing as they leaned over to place their hand prints on the silhouettes of running children. We cut a head hole and slit the bottom corners of big plastic trash bags. Worked like gangbusters! The little folk got a bang out of wearing plastic bags and getting their hands all messy. Some resisted the clean-up process. This banner was then taken to a senior center where the ground section was hand printed by senior citizens. Back in the studio, we tinted the figures in red blending into yellow and the ground...well, purple. Don't ask.

	Green Park Opening An outdoor festival was held to celebrate the opening of Green Park in The Woodlands, TX, between the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and the South Branch Montgomery County Library. One of the most popular activities was hand printing a mural to commemorate the opening. Colorful hand prints provided by all ages of people filled the silhouettes of children running with balloons. Employees of the sponsoring library hand printed the grass and board members thumb printed the stenciled title. Keeping track of all the colors was lots of laughs.

	The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival What better image for the ribbon of park lining both sides of the Woodlands Waterway than a Tree of Life? On the first day of the event, hundreds of people from toddlers to grandmothers placed various brown hand prints on the tree trunk and roots. On the second day leaves in three shades of green were added. This time, the mural was laid out on a standing frame so people didn't have to get down on the ground. This was the first time we used colored paint for the hand prints instead of later tinting color over white hand prints. This gave much more depth and variety to the hand printed areas.

	Market Street Art Festival Like the old fashioned small town business district it emulates, the outdoor Market Street surrounds an open square of green...and provides a perfect setting for an art festival. Hand print banners waved in the wind, inviting folks of all ages to come put their hand prints on the banner on the ground.

	Woodlands Children's Festival We have hand printed banners at this festival twice. Among all the activities there, this was one of the messiest and therefore more fun for the children. Their parents appreciated our provisions for immediate hand-washing!

	JULY 4TH, 2004 - THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS RED, HOT AND BLUE CELEBRATION The Fourth of July fell on a Sunday that year. A brilliant day of predictable heat and humidity, eased by a bit of wind. Who could resist the Red, Hot and Blue Celebration held along the new Woodlands Waterway? Amongst the various booths, food vendors and kids' activities was a plain little booth whose only marker was a four-foot-wide banner of riotous color bearing the words "Living in Hope" and "Leben in der Hoffnung" - which says the same thing in German. A couple of similar banners lay on the ground. People passing by were invited to take a moment to press their hands into white latex paint and put a hand print on a banner. 131 people did just that. Few were content to stop at just one hand print. Altogether, 461 hand prints were made on four banners. Two young black men took photographs of each other laying hand prints. Families visiting from New Zealand, Scotland and Britain left their prints. US citizens born in other lands left prints. Descendants of Texas settlers left prints. Hispanics and Asian Americans left prints. A grandmother visiting from Ohio and her toddler granddaughter left prints. Funny thing, all those hand prints looked alike.... The four banners hand printed on that fine day were destined to go to Iraq, Israel, Romania and Scotland.

	Legal Eagles Gallery - Goodwill Project During Artists Walk During 2nd Annual Artists Walk in Tomball, TX, Legal Eagles Gallery, owned by Tomball attorneys Mark and Jana Payne, hosted a hand printing event. Kiwanis Club of The Woodlands and Anthony Hume invited Tomball residents to hand print “Living in Hope” banners bound for Romania and Iraq. The Kiwanis Club sponsored the Romanian banner and Legal Eagles Gallery sponsored the Iraqi banner, coordinating efforts with Iraqchilden.org. Legal Eagles Gallery also accepted donations to be divided between helping families of American soldiers who have been killed or wounded in the war in Iraq and purchasing school supplies to be sent to Iraq in an effort to help our soldiers’ efforts in rebuilding schools and educational facilities. This project was intended to create goodwill among the Iraq people by allowing them to see the willingness and hope that American families and children extend by the provision of these supplies. Mrs. Payne is pictured with Anthony and the finished Romanian banner.

	Hand Printing in Romania SPONSORED BY THE WOODLANDS KIWANIS, STEVE GALL & MARIANA SPEIR Steve Gall's annual vacation included a special mission that year: to secure Romanian hand prints on the painted banner in his bag. When he left Houston for Romania, a piece of painted fabric was stuffed in the bottom of his carry-on bag. He decided to wait and buy the white latex paint in Romania. Didn't want to chance violating homeland security. In Constanta, Romania he went to meet with 30 ninth grade students taking a class in English in a secondary school. During class time they met in the schoolyard and Steve explained the novel project to the ninth graders, all of whom spoke excellent English to his surprise and delight. They loved the concept. Steve didn't have to point out that you can't tell one person's hand print from another. They noticed that right off and told him that all hand prints look alike. The banner was spread on pavement, a can of white paint with a Romanian label was opened and hand printing commenced. You can see in the pictures how much fun the students had putting their hand prints on the banner. And each others' faces. Clearly, teenagers are teenagers the world over. "They refused to wash the paint off their hands. Or their faces," Steve said. "They wore that paint like a badge for the rest of the day in school." The Romanian students eagerly awaited a banner from a not-so-different-after-all part of the world far away. All and all, it was a very special and wonderful experience.