Since 1901, oil on linen, 30 x 40
Gallery 822 on Canyon Road will be having their Annual Indian market show this weekend. You are invited to attend the Artist's Reception on Aug 2o, 5-8pm. Artists will be in attendeance with new art work. I hope to see you there!
Cowboy and Indians, oil on canvas, 18 x 24
I have been so busy painting! I'm hoping I can get a few hours at the easel this morning before I have to pack my paintings for the Bosque Art Classic in Clifton, TX. I entered 4 paintings in the show and had all four accepted.
I was on Facebook a while back and found another artist I like. I went to his website and saw that he was showing at RARE Gallery in Jackson Hole. I've been wanting to get back into a Jackson Hole gallery for some time now and after looking at the gallery online I thought we would be a good match. Of course I put it on my To Do list. I'd get to it eventually. In the mean time, I was on facebook and saw that another artist I admire was accepted into this same gallery. Aaargh! Why did I wait. Could they possibly have room for me too? Still I waited. Last week I finally emailed the gallery with images, a bio and resume and a note saying I wanted them to represent me. I immediately got a call from the gallery and an hour later I was in!
How will this gallery work out for me? Only time will tell. I have great hopes.
The lesson I learned from this 1) social networking can provide valuable leads. 2) Don't wait about making contact with folks and galleries. 3) sometimes it really seems like a struggle getting accepted into galleries and then suddenly thing will fall into place. The more galleries you contact , the better your chances are of getting into one.
We all know we should have business cards. But do we? I usually find them boring to give and to get. Recently I went to the opening of a weaving studio, Sacramento Mountain Weavers in Cloudcroft NM and I really liked their business cards. They were good quality and were printed on both sides. They told me they were printed at gotprint.com
To make a long story short, Hubby designed cards for me for both my contemporary still life paintings and my American Indian paintings. Obviously, the one I have posted is the American Indian card. And, yep, Hubby forgot to put the phone number on the card! LOL. Ah, well, I still love the cards and can't wait to pass them out.
PS The opening at the studio was great in addition to the business cards. Nice studio, great work and lots of folks in attendance
Well, this painting isn't a failure yet but I'm putting it aside for awhile. Maybe for a long while.
I don't use a lot of blue in my paintings yet I seem to have about 20 tubes of blue paint, various brands and colors. But I just can't get the midtone blues right in this painting. When I try to lighten it up it's either too purple, too green or too gray. Don't know if it's me or if I need to buy yet another tube of blue paint.
High Noon, 24 x 18, oil on canvas, at Greeley Stampede Western Art Show
The past week has been frustrating for me. If I don't get a full day of painting in I get cranky!
First, we've had to have work on the truck. Since a round trip into town is about 2 1/2 hours it took a big chunk out of the day when we had to drop off the truck. And since we drove all that way, we took advantage of the trip and did grocery shopping. The next day we showed up when the truck was suppose to be finished. Of course, it wasn't so we had to wait an additional hour.
Then the next evening, June 9th, I was going through my folder of upcoming shows and found a copy of the invitation to the Greeley Stampede Western Art Show. I had accepted their invitation in December but hadn't heard any more from them. I thought the opening was July 4th weekend. But on a closer look I found that the show started on June 24th and ended July 4th. PANIC!!! Emails were sent, phone calls were made. They hadn't received my acceptance letter! To make a long story short, I spent Thursday, boxing up 5 paintings (fortunately, I had set these paintings aside for the show) made arrangements for the FEDEX to meet me the next day(they don't come to my house) the paintings got shipped and hurray! the paintings arrived by the June 15th deadline!
Whew! I'm sequestered in my studio this week hoping to get some work done. And to top it off, I'm working on 4 (!) complicated paintings so I don't get the satisfaction of finishing a painting anytime soon. Ah, well. It sure beats having a "real" job!
