Announcement: Beckman's Bakery art showing through April
My work is on display at Beckman's Bakery's Mission Street store in Santa Cruz from now until the end of April. The shop's address is 2341 Mission Street, Santa Cruz. Please stop by if you are in the area, have a snack, and check out my paintings! Beckman's makes excellent bread, among other things. I love their applesauce muffins.
I'm also posting a photo here for those of you who aren't local. :)
I haven't hung my own work since I was in college. I've only participated in a couple of shows since then, and they had volunteers to hang the work for those. This was a bit of a learning experience. Mainly, I learned that it is really difficult to hang paintings straight and even to each other when using a fishing line hanger from a high rail. Lisa did most of that, since I couldn't even reach the hooks (note to self: remember to bring an assistant to thse things, it made my life a lot easier to have help), and she did really well, but at some point I had to let go of the attachment to getting everything perfectly even.
It was really interesting to see a group of my work hanging together like this. I seem to have a fascination with orange. Or at least I did for a while. I've moved on to red and blue in my more recent work. I don't love all of these paintings, and I don't think they work together as well as I'd like, but I'm still pretty pleased with the finished grouping. I was definitely thinking about how I would change my selections and hanging strategy for the second show in August. I'm going to bring less pieces to the second show, because the newer work is a lot stronger individually. Maybe 6 paintings total. I really like the grouping of the four small paintings, though we really struggled to get them square. Also, I didn't have wires on the back of any of these paintings, and that would have made hanging them a lot easier. I normally do wire the backs, but I was so surprised by this opportunity that I wasn't prepared. I'm going to make it a habit to wire each new painting when I finish and sign them from now on!
I do like my printed support material. I'm pretty happy with my artist statement, and I think the layout of the statement, biography and price list looks professional. I also left a stack of cards and a comment book, so I'm interested to see what kind of feedback and contacts I get. I'm comfortable with my pricing, too. I really hope I sell some of these, as I'd love to get them moving out of my studio!
There was a couple in the shop when we arrived and started laying out the pieces, and they were both really interested in what we were doing. The woman asked if I was selling while the paintings were still stacked up, so she couldn't even really see them yet. I took that as a compliment, and I hope she comes back to see them hung. :) I wasn't quite coherent enough in the moment to suggest that to her.
Now I need to think about how to get the word out most effectively, and I need to update a couple parts of my website that are really stale, because I'm hoping this exposure will drive some traffic there...
I'm also posting a photo here for those of you who aren't local. :)
I haven't hung my own work since I was in college. I've only participated in a couple of shows since then, and they had volunteers to hang the work for those. This was a bit of a learning experience. Mainly, I learned that it is really difficult to hang paintings straight and even to each other when using a fishing line hanger from a high rail. Lisa did most of that, since I couldn't even reach the hooks (note to self: remember to bring an assistant to thse things, it made my life a lot easier to have help), and she did really well, but at some point I had to let go of the attachment to getting everything perfectly even.
It was really interesting to see a group of my work hanging together like this. I seem to have a fascination with orange. Or at least I did for a while. I've moved on to red and blue in my more recent work. I don't love all of these paintings, and I don't think they work together as well as I'd like, but I'm still pretty pleased with the finished grouping. I was definitely thinking about how I would change my selections and hanging strategy for the second show in August. I'm going to bring less pieces to the second show, because the newer work is a lot stronger individually. Maybe 6 paintings total. I really like the grouping of the four small paintings, though we really struggled to get them square. Also, I didn't have wires on the back of any of these paintings, and that would have made hanging them a lot easier. I normally do wire the backs, but I was so surprised by this opportunity that I wasn't prepared. I'm going to make it a habit to wire each new painting when I finish and sign them from now on!
I do like my printed support material. I'm pretty happy with my artist statement, and I think the layout of the statement, biography and price list looks professional. I also left a stack of cards and a comment book, so I'm interested to see what kind of feedback and contacts I get. I'm comfortable with my pricing, too. I really hope I sell some of these, as I'd love to get them moving out of my studio!
There was a couple in the shop when we arrived and started laying out the pieces, and they were both really interested in what we were doing. The woman asked if I was selling while the paintings were still stacked up, so she couldn't even really see them yet. I took that as a compliment, and I hope she comes back to see them hung. :) I wasn't quite coherent enough in the moment to suggest that to her.
Now I need to think about how to get the word out most effectively, and I need to update a couple parts of my website that are really stale, because I'm hoping this exposure will drive some traffic there...