Drawings, Art Shows, and HP Art Fair

Hello Blogger Friends, it's been a while.  Not too too much ART stuff has been happening lately and I really haven't been in many shows over the past year.  And it was something I didn't realize until recently.  So I wanted to start doing a couple shows again so several months ago I decided to do a show called REJECTED.  The theme was artwork that had been rejected from a previous art show.  I got one piece in called "Stand," which was rejected from a tattoo show called INK.  Rejected was a pretty good show.  My art piece was a painting based off the drawings I do (like the one pictured above), so I was glad to show it.

I have been drawing quite a lot lately.  It's 10 times easier to do than painting and it is far less messy of course.  I've been drawing an image of a woman with a blindfold for quite a while now...maybe 5 years.  She pretty much always has a blindfold as eyes (unless I give her a half mask)...but her body and hair are always changing.  For example in the picture above she has hair that is long but that is actually a raven's face and beak (see it?).  Also she has no arms...I didn't really feel the need for them in this drawing.

So just because I decided to do an art show next month called Corpus Illuminata.  The theme is artwork that is anatomical, biological, or medically themed.  The piece that they selected for this show is a drawing of mine in which a female figure is carrying a fetus.  I have drawn this image before and almost chose to submit the original drawing of it...but I chose to work on a new updated version to see the result.  And I liked the result so I am happy it got chosen for this show.

Also at the end of next month I will be doing an art fair with a friend of mine.  It is called the Hazel Park Fine Art Fair.  I did this show several years ago and I am pretty excited to be doing it again.  I specifically made smaller art for this show (so I could charge less) so I am hoping the fair gets a good turnout.  When I did it the first time the show was very slow...I am thinking it was that way because it was a fairly new art festival.

Hope your summer is going well friends!  Talk to you soon again!

My People's Arts Festival blog post, FINALLY!

Hey friends. I'm so sorry but I'm not going to do a PAF picture Blog. :( Instead please check out the link provided HERE to see a great shot of my art doll "Mother Nature" as well as other pictures from the festival. They are REALLY great shots of the event. Oh & please look several pictures after "Mother Nature" to see a nice shot of my table (my Munnys are shown, Gus Van Valentine, as well as some of my paintings).

I will say a bit about the festival though. Let's see...I'll say the not-so-good stuff first, not that it was terrible....So, my first festival was a lot of fun but also a lot of work. Work like setting up & taking down lots of stuff over the two days, then figuring out pricing, trying to avoid the humidity & heat on the second day (ahhhh!), trying to have the booth look enticing enough to get people to stop by, and just trying to make a buck or two in the process.

Awesome things about the People's Arts Festival:

• getting a lot of nice feedback from the public-I heard many "I like your style" comments...but usually those people didn't buy anything and that's understandable considering there were 130 artist booths. >.<
• my booth was in an awesome location and I had the coolest booth-neighbors. And I made a lot of new artist friends...which leads to the next awesome thing...
• ART TRADES! Yup, I did 5 art trades. It was fun to swap one of my pieces for another artist's work that I really appreciated...as well as having an artist compliment & appreciate my art too.
• having VISITORS. My mom & dad came down to the festival as well as my friend Karen and her husband. Also my friends Dollie & Matthew had a booth several down from mine & we visited one another throughout the two days.
  
• lastly, I did sell some stuff and I felt very happy & proud of that. This is what I remember selling. ;) A nice gentleman purchased "Mother Nature" on the last night...I sold my Munny Mac Bateman...actually did pretty decently selling (and sometimes just giving away) my art cards (ATC/ACEO)...my first sale was of an Alice piece titled "Looking-Glass" (with broken CD's, aka: mirror, and images from the book hot-glued on to sky blue painted canvas)...selling the first "sand & feathers series" painting 'White Circle'-a woman really appreciated it which made me happy since I made those 8 paintings specifically for the PAF...and the most surprisingly moment came when a woman purchased one of my older paintings (from 2001...yea not 2010, 2001!)-that was a pretty cool feeling.
• So I think it was very successful despite not making much money overall. One of the coolest things was to see people's reactions UP CLOSE & PERSONAL to my art. {Found it funny that some people thought I specialized in children's toys...nope, but maybe one day, lol.} I remember what one person had to say about "Mother Nature" (whom I thought was the star of my booth, haha)...she said "It's freaky but there's just something cool about it." Yup, great times, great people...I will be there for sure next summer. ^_^
  

Ciao for now friends! Oh & P.S. ART GIVEAWAY coming soon.