Londonderry Art Fair

My Monet's Pond was one of the paintings sold at the Londonderry Art Fair last weekend. Even though I did let a gentleman haggle me down about 50% on two paintings, it turned out to be a good Saturday. I just wanted to get the first sale of the day out of the way. (My artist friends always give me a hard time when I do this. In fact they give me a hard time on my pricing in general. They should be higher??????)

Art Fair

I will be setting up my art tent in New Castle, NH this Saturday for their annual arts and crafts fair. (God willing and the Thunder storms hold off)

I will be showing about 20 original paintings and numerous giclee prints. I will be showing more smaller original art this summer.

Please stop by and say hi.

December Art Fair

I will participate in the Sommersworth Arts and Crafts Fair, in Sommersworth, NH, Saturday, December the fourth.

I also now have a presence on Fine Art America.

http://harold-kirby.artistwebsites.com/index.html

Weather Problems

Major weather problems made for a bad day at the Londonderry Art Fair. I was hoping that the fair would be rain delayed but the fair officials said the weather was supposed to break and the fair would go on. It was misting as I errected my tent and placed my paintings inside. I left the front off the tent because I didn't want my display to be too obscured. However before long the rains came heavy and winds blew rain into the tent and I had to put up the fourth side of the tent. Some on my paintings got wet and I was soaked. There was a bit of a break in the afternoon and a few people came by the Art Fair.

The only good thing about the day was my painting of the " Nubble Light" a lighthouse in Maine took a third place ribbon.



I had to spend the next couple of days drying out my displays, tent and had to reframe some of the glazed artwork. I wish we had gone for the rain day.

Londonderry Art Fair

I will be setting up my tent on the Londonderry commons, Londonderry, NH on Saturday, Sep 12 along with about 30 other artists for a day long art show. I would love to have someone stop by who actually saw my blog. Above are a couple of the twenty original paintings I will be displaying along with numberous giclee prints of my current and past art work.

This will probably be my last outdoor show for this year.

Disappointing Art Fair

The art fair was a bit disappointing not many people showed to view the fair. Perhaps the weather was too good. It was a very rare wonderful weather day and perhaps everyone was out enjoying the beach and just didn't want to waste the day by going to an art fair. This has been the rainiest summer I can remember in New England. A couple examples of the art that did sell for me.

I did manage to sell some of my aviation art so the show wasn't a total bust.

Incident in Exeter

I hung The Exeter Library Show a few days ago. Fifteen paintings were hung around the facitlity. The ranged from landscapes, aviation art, marine art and a still life. The only problem was my having to get up on a ladder to hang some of the paintings. I'm 70 and some of my meds disturb my balance a little bit. After hanging two with the ladder and almost falling off I decided to just hand the fifteen rather than twenty.

Bad Day at The Arts and Crafts Fair

I, as the loan impressionist artist at the Rockingham Arts and Crafts fair, had a disasterous show today. I had a goodly number of browsers stop by and heap lavish praise on my work but unfortunately not lavish numbers of dollar bills. As always there were a number of browsers who expressed enthusiasm and promised to stop back by before the show closed. If you've done these shows yourself, you know that promise is almost never kept. However today I only had three broken promises and not the usual half dozen or so.
I hope the problem is the economy and not my art work. In the past, this show has been my most successful one day event for the year. Oh well... there's always next year.