Parktacular Butterfly Art Hunt

 Starting June 1st, 2018 ten miniature butterfly artworks in the public parks of St. Louis Park, Minnesota.  Visit www.williamhessian.com to see photo clues and learn more about the art hunt.

The original artworks are only 1.5 inches by 1.5 inches in size. They are hidden in for the public to find and keep. 

Here is a behind the scenes image of the artworks being created before they were mounted and weatherproofed for the art hunt.

Final Clues for the Common Ground Fair Art Hunt

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

Here is the final batch of clues! Easy clues! 

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt Clues (Saturday Night)

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

Final clues for Saturday! Tomorrow will be the release of the Easy Clues! It will be a race to find the remaining fish art! Make sure to stop by the tent for the most recent clues, as the blog updates will happen later in the day. 

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt Clues

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost &; Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

Another batch of medium clues! Good luck!

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt Clues

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

See if these medium clues help you on your hunt! 

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt Clues Batch 3

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

                                             Check back tomorrow for the medium clues! 

Common Ground Art Hunt Clues Batch 2

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found.

Here is batch 2 for the Friday Hard Clues

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt Clues

Every few hours this weekend a new blog post with the newest art hunt clues will be released. This will aide art hunters at the Common Ground Fair over the weekend, and allow for you mobile devices to take the clues with you as you search around the fair. Please make sure to stop by the Compost & Recycling Booth to see the clues first, and to see which artworks have already been found. 

Here is the first three HARD clues for the hunt! 

Good luck!

Common Ground Fair Art Hunt

The Common Ground Fair in Unity Maine will feature a miniature art hunt by William Hessian. Hidden among the fair grounds will be 10 original works of art measuring only 1 inch by 1.5 inches each. The art hunt is designed to raise awareness about the important of Compost & Recycling in our lives. The subject matter feature the likeness of 10 different types of fish, reminding us that our choices to recycling and compost have a direct effect on the creatures and environment that surrounds us.

Artist William Hessian, who currently lives in Portland Maine teaches art at River Tree Arts in Kennebunk, Maine, has been creating miniature art hunts across the country for 8 years. His art hunts happen annually in Minnesota, California and North Dakota and have also happened in 5 other states across the US. William also sells his miniature artwork in galleries across the US and on the internet. The art hunts are often tied to fairs, festivals and political events. The hunts are always free and invite everyone to become a treasure hunter for a weekend and pay close attention to your surroundings.

For those who attend the Common Ground Fair and want to find hidden art, here is how it will work. First, you will want to find the Compost & Recycling Tent where a small display will have photograph clues released periodically over the weekend. Each photograph clue will show the miniature artwork in its hiding place, and the clues will get easier as the weekend progresses. Each person that finds one of the ten works of art can return to the Compost & Recycling tent to be awarded an additional prize! 

"I am going to make this art hunt extremely difficult for all the talented treasure hunters at the CommonGround Fair." William posted on Facebook.

In previous hunts William has been known to hide artwork 20 feet up a tree, on branches over hanging streams, and deep inside rotted out logs. It is an accomplishment to find one of these little treasures. 

Fish Art Hunt coming this summer to Minnesota and Maine

St. Louis Park Minnesota and Portland, Maine and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine will be home William Hessian's Miniature Art Hunts. The theme of all of the artwork will be fish that will be hand drawn in miniature and hidden for people to find. Winners will receive additional prizes. St. Louis Park's Parktacular event will be the 9th annual art hunt (in William Hessian's hometown). Portland Maine's Art Hunt is teaming up with Meg Perry Center and other local establishments to clean up the parks. The Commonground Fair art hunt will be focused on the education of Recycling & Compost.

William has completed over 25 free art hunts across the country (including California, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Montana, Michigan) in the past decade. You can visit williamhessian.com to learn all about past events and look at photo galleries.

Sketchbook Friday: I am made of squirrels

Sitting in the break room at work, I saw a piece of scrap paper and a pen. I drew this. I thought of some very random word bubbles and then left it behind. I love left behind art, and hidden art. If you follow me around a lot you can collect a whole bunch of random sketches. Each Friday at noon I scan in one new sketch or drawing from one of my many sketchbooks. Many times my sketches are ideas for larger projects that you might find on my fine art website William Hessian dot com, or as projects right here on my Bearded Bunny art blog. If you enjoy these sketches make sure to also see my Favorite 20 sketches from 2011 or go back and check out all of the sketchbook friday posts.

If you want to own some of my work, you can always find great deals on my artwork and stickers at my Etsy shop.  Do not forget to subscribe to my blog and never miss another post.

Bandit the Bear finds another miniature artwork

Bandit the Bear is the best art hunting bear in the world! And Bandit has found another work of art this weekend in the Wizard of Oz art hunt happening in Costa Mesa! The art hunt is going on this weekend in Costa Mesa:

Wizard of Oz Art Hunt in Costa Mesa

The miniature mustang art hunt returns to Costa Mesa this year with the theme of Wizard of Oz! This weekend (October 20th-21st, 2012) the entire community is invited to go a hunt for tiny little paintings created by William Hessian, aka Mr. Art Hunt.

WINNERS GET TO KEEP THE ART! Ten brightly colored and hand drawn miniature Wizard of Oz artworks will be hidden in the public parks of Costa Mesa, California. The hunt is open to the public and everyone is invited to seek out your local parks and search for these tiny treasures. Each artwork is 1 and a half inches by 1 and a half inches square. The first of daily visual photo clues will be posted on October 20th-21st to help aide those in the search for original Art. All winners and art hunters are invited to send in pictures to be added to the website.

Visit the Wizard of Oz webpage to see rules and photo galleries as they appear during and after the art hunt. Join in the fun!

To get a good idea about the miniature art hunt, check out some photos from the last two art hunts:

You can also see the entire photo gallery for the last three hunts at:
2011 Willy Wonka Mustang Art Hunt
2010 Mustang Art Hunt
2008 Costa Mesa Crab Art Hunt

William Hessian, also known as Mr. Art Hunt and the Canvas Killer, is a travelling artist from Minneapolis, MN. William has created free public art hunts all across the united states, including California, Oregon, Maine, Utah, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan. Many of his art hunts are part of festivals, events and private events like weddings, work parties. You can contact William Hessian about bringing a miniature art hunt to your community.

Northville Art Hunt video

The Northville Patch created a little video feature of my art hunt two weeks ago:

Online Art Hunt

One of my most popular art projects is my free public miniature art hunts! Each summer I perform art hunts for different towns all over the country. My hunt in Northville, Michigan this summer was indoors and featured art hidden in ten local businesses. I decided to take a set of photos and let you go on an art hunt from your computer!

The goal is to find these tiny two inch mustang paintings hidden in each of the photos below. If you like Where's Waldo, or hidden picture games, here's your chance to go on an art hunt! Good luck. 

Let's start with an easy one.

 

Can you find the hidden art in the portrait studio?

The gift shop

The Sport's Pub

Accessory Shop

(this is a hard one)

Jewelry Shop

Pottery Shop

Art Gallery

The Cafe

The Eatery

How did you do? Did you find them all? Send this link to others and challenge them to take the miniature art challenge.

You can find a list of all the stores in the photos above at the Northville Art Hunt website.