So, this weekend is all about getting ready for the next gallery showing. This one is at The Main Street Gallery by Mount Washington Valley Arts Association. I currently have one piece down there for a charity event in support of the organization, but will have one for the “Spring is in the Air” show that runs until the end of June, and well as having a wall for those three months as well. As a Resident Artist for MWVAA, that’s a cool thing we get to do, so I’ll have a bunch of stuff down there for the next three months!
So I know, you’re all asking… “How do you prep for this stuff????”. Ok, so maybe not all of you were asking, but a couple people have! And the answer is going to be different each time. Currently I have three pieces in a beautiful gallery here in town, The 3 Sisters Gallery which is an amazing, artists owned gallery that I was lucky enough to be selected with ten others for a show to show my work in. Diedre over there was just amazing and so, soooo talented, and was so easy to work with. I selected my pieces by sending them out to my two kids, and my wife. I gave them all access to the ones I was considering, and then sent a link to the folder that the files were in, and had each one of them delete the ones that they weren’t crazy about. By the time that was done I only had to chose from about five photos!
This time, for the Spring is in the Air show, I did the same things but chose four pieces. But the wall was so much harder. So really, what I did was I just took the stuff I already had in print. A lot of times I’ll look at a shot in port processing and just love it enough that I really want to see it in print. So I actually had a lot of photos all ready to go. I even have a couple metallics and vintage framed items going in the gallery this time!
So once all the work was framed, all I really had to do was do a “Product Tag” for them, and a Certificate of Authenticity for each one. And that’s it! Oh, and the other cool part is that I’ll be brining greeting card prints with me too!
