I spent the bulk of the day preparing more watercolor paintings to sell. This required price tags, inserting them into plastic sleeves and adding a piece of foam board for stability. Plus photographing them and giving them all titles to make everything easier to inventory.
I will be selling them and paper collage works at an event at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY on July 23, 2015 from 5-8 pm. It’s called Craft & Craft. I’m one of twenty-plus vendors (crafters) and the other craft is beer. So it is a beer fest with art thrown in.
Hopefully, the revelers will bring pocket cash to buy art. I am going to do a BOGO sale – buy one, get one free, although I am against doing one for half price. The idea is to come home with less than I brought there – a lot less! Customers will need to take at least two, lol. I have a lot of paintings. I mean, I didn’t realize there was this much stuff tucked away! The bulk of these paintings were done between 1999 and 2002.
The paintings in this post are 7″ x 10″ watercolors. I also prepped larger pieces – tags and titles, but I haven’t cut the foam board for those yet. I will share them soon!
It’s funny how labor intensive this business/hobby is. I’m not a fan of this busy work but it all has to be done, holiday or not. Actually, it’s kind of therapeutic in a way. A chance to reflect on the process of mark making and the pure joy I felt while making them. #feelingexcited – and that feeling is like abstract expressionist fireworks exploding inside of me on the 4th of July. <3
These are really intereting, Karen Tash. I like so many of them. Great work. I hope you sell a lot to the beer drinkers at the Everson. Speaking of which … time for our lunch at Clark’s, I think. Let me know by email, if you can. 🙂 Time for we two Syracuse bloggers to finally meet, I say. I’ll ask Jim McKeever if he can make it, too, when we pick a day and time.
These are really intereting, Karen Tash. I like so many of them. Great work. I hope you sell a lot to the beer drinkers at the Everson. Speaking of which … time for our lunch at Clark’s, I think. Let me know by email, if you can. 🙂 Time for we two Syracuse bloggers to finally meet, I say. I’ll ask Jim McKeever if he can make it, too, when we pick a day and time.
Once I get the rest of these paintings ready, Mark, and get through the upcoming week’s business and social obligations, I will be good to go. 🙂
Fantastic, Karen. Good news with all the gallery space coming to you!