Accepted to Huffhines!
It's shaping up to be a busy fall! I got the letter at the end of last week that I was accepted into Huffhines Art Trails in Richardson. This is a 2 day art fair held at the end of October. In the meantime, I'm painting for Lakewood Summer Art Faire and getting ready for Fall classes.
Unfortunately, not much of my art "job" lately has been painting happily away in the studio. Since, like most full-time artists, I am self-employed, so I wear all the business hats around here. I have been working on marketing and organizing issues this summer. I'm also starting to branch out my web presence with joining an on-line gallery (www.boundlessgallery.com) for my collages and I'm looking into E-bay as an art sales possibility for smaller works and another on-line gallery for larger works.
Why on-line galleries instead of traditional galleries? So I'm in control!! *insert crazy laugh here* Ok, I'm only partially kidding. First, I want my artwork to be available to me for art festivals and exhibits instead of decorating gallery walls. Second, I want to be available to my collectors through shows or direct contact via the internet. Accessibility is important to me. I'm not creating this art in a vacuum, it shouldn't be sold that way either. As always, artwork is available for purchase by contacting me directly.
On a less artsy note, I'm also recreating my website and the cataloging of my artwork before it gets too much more out of control. I do my own web development and I'm having to take a bit of a learning curve to switch from Frontpage to Dreamweaver. I also use Access to catalog my work and I'm going to learn MySQL (trip to HalfPrice books tomorrow! woo-hoo! love that store!) to
convert that database over to a non-Microsoft product as well. Why am I sharing all this? Because if you are a former student or avid collector, you may be wondering why no new Student Galleries or even updates to my own Gallery have appeared since early Spring. This major conversion is why...so bear with me and my painful catch up in my Web Developing skills (its been 9 years..that's what I did to earn money to buy art supplies before my son was born!)
Anyway..all text and no picture is not-artistic and downright boring as well. Here's what the Bodhi & horse picture looks like on my easel right now. It is in stage 3...blocking in major shapes and values. My goal is to have this painting complete and hanging at Huffhines so I need to speed up that 4 month estimate I made last blog!
Have a great Labor Day weekend! Happy grilling!
Unfortunately, not much of my art "job" lately has been painting happily away in the studio. Since, like most full-time artists, I am self-employed, so I wear all the business hats around here. I have been working on marketing and organizing issues this summer. I'm also starting to branch out my web presence with joining an on-line gallery (www.boundlessgallery.com) for my collages and I'm looking into E-bay as an art sales possibility for smaller works and another on-line gallery for larger works.
Why on-line galleries instead of traditional galleries? So I'm in control!! *insert crazy laugh here* Ok, I'm only partially kidding. First, I want my artwork to be available to me for art festivals and exhibits instead of decorating gallery walls. Second, I want to be available to my collectors through shows or direct contact via the internet. Accessibility is important to me. I'm not creating this art in a vacuum, it shouldn't be sold that way either. As always, artwork is available for purchase by contacting me directly.
On a less artsy note, I'm also recreating my website and the cataloging of my artwork before it gets too much more out of control. I do my own web development and I'm having to take a bit of a learning curve to switch from Frontpage to Dreamweaver. I also use Access to catalog my work and I'm going to learn MySQL (trip to HalfPrice books tomorrow! woo-hoo! love that store!) to
Anyway..all text and no picture is not-artistic and downright boring as well. Here's what the Bodhi & horse picture looks like on my easel right now. It is in stage 3...blocking in major shapes and values. My goal is to have this painting complete and hanging at Huffhines so I need to speed up that 4 month estimate I made last blog!
Have a great Labor Day weekend! Happy grilling!
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