Monday, October 8, 2012
Last Saturday's art fair in Dover, NH was pretty good. My giclee prints were well received but I wasn't able to sell any of my original paintings. I guess, that with the current economy, no one seems to want to put out the big bucks.
One of the visitors to my site was a pet goat. The gentleman's goat is a pet, house broken and even sleeps with him. I'm not too sure about those horns and hooves on the bed with me a night.
Monday, October 1, 2012
My oil pastel "Texas Gothic" won first prize in the associates division of the international Oil Pastel Society. It's on 11 by 14 inch archival canvas panel.
I will be erecting my canopy and art walls at the Apple Harvest Fest in Dover, NH this Saturday. At least I hope I'll be able to participate. I've thrown my back out and I hope I'll able to have the pain down to a tolerable level by Saturday.
We'll be at the McConnell Center which about a block from the main venues.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
It's been a busy summer. I normally do 6 to 8 art fairs a year but I've built up so much inventory, I've scheduled 20 art fairs from June until the second week in December.
Since it's going to be a rainy weekend here, I lucked out and had this weekend free.
Next Saturday, I'll be in Dover, NH and their Apple Festival. The art fair protion is a new show on the fringe of the Apple Festival. I hope many of the Festival goers find our location.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Oil Pastel blending tool
We were having a discussion in the Oil Pastel Forum, of the Wet Canvas Web Site, on the tools we use to blend our oil pastels. I prefer paper stumps but one of my WC friends recommended using pipe insulation as a blender. I gave it a try but I still really prefer my paper stumps. I found the insulation to be a bit unwieldy. It kept knocking off things off the table, my brush holder on the floor among other problems. I also found them difficult to use when trying to blend a delicate passage. However I found that if I held them a bit farther back along it's length when attempting to draw, it automatically created an abstract.
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