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Source: The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.迷你倉Dec. 29--Wintertime is different for everybody, presenting new challenges that range from the temperature to holiday planning to giftgiving, and the ways that Pueblo's artists choose to let this affect them are as many and varied as their artworks themselves.Radeaux, 63, co-owns the John Deaux Art Gallery on Union Avenue, to which he also contributes his own paintings of birds and nature."The middle of winter is probably the least busy," Radeaux said of his gallery's patronage. "Things pick up in the spring and fall," adding that the gallery also sees a lot of visitors right now, during the holidays."We get a lot of out-oftown visitors," he said. "They need something to do, so they'll come down on Union and look at the shops." And as in other Western towns, he said that people in Pueblo tend to purchase landscape paintings more than just about anything else.Landscape artist Darien Bogart, 52, has staked his livelihood on observations like that. About a year after devoting himself full-time to his art, he sees a lot of potential in Pueblo, both in the scenery and the people."If you can't get inspired out here," he said, "you're doomed."He went on to say that though the wintertime means more time to produce his art, promotion is still a year-round endeavor."That's kind of my goal for the new year," he said. "Network more, get in more galleries."A few weeks ago, that meant sending out a wave of Christmas cards to his patrons. Today it means the same thing it will likely mean for the rest of the year: knocking on metaphorical doors.For other artists around town, the holidays are a welcome boon before the drought of full winter."It's the busiest time we have, in true December," said Alison Williams-Musso of Williams Studio. "I'm usually open until Christmas Eve, and then try to take the rest of the year off, mini storageut I just keep getting calls."According to her, the holidays bring about a third of the entire year's business to her family's gallery, located next to Musso Farms about eight miles east of town."I think our biggest sellers are the coffee mugs we do. We could sell 100 to 200 of them in a given December." Like the John Deaux gallery, Williams Studio sees its slowest months as winter arrives in full."I usually go appointment- only during that time," Williams-Musso said.Also during that time, John Wilbar, the artist responsible for the colorfully curving wood and fiberglass sculptures all over town, is too busy enjoying Pueblo's generally mild weather to stop working."If it's 45-50 degrees out," he said, "I'm set. Especially with the nice clear skies."While he does keep a well-insulated studio for his indoor work, Wilbar also spends a good deal of time outside on his patio, or in his uninsulated workshop cutting the wood that serves as the skeleton of his pieces.His pieces, stylized representations of the gears and heavy industrial equipment he grew up with, will be on display at the Smithsonian Craft Show this April. With his work ethic, that's not at all hard to believe. Wilbar loves his work."I wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and can't wait to go cut wood," he said with a laugh and absolutely no indication of slowing down. His New Year's resolution: the simple commitment to do more."You've got to be strict," Bogart said. "You've got to be disciplined, because things will just suck it away. A lot of people don't get that. They just want to get by. I've never been that guy. There's just so much to explore, I don't get how some people are just bored."city@chieftain.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.) Visit The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.) at .chieftain.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存