I have been running around like a mad man getting ready to participate in my first art fair in years. This one definitely ended up better than the first one I did in St. Louis. This time I built portable walls and holders for prints so people can flip through them. The main stay of my booth were my bird paintings and the last piece of my previous body of work titled “The Kiss”, which you can find in the painting section. I sold two pieces which will help pay some bills and had several really good talks with people. The art fair was in Kingspoint park which overlooks the river in Sleepy Hollow, but you have to enter the subdivision of Philipsburgh Manor to get to the park, so not a lot of people actually know about it.
paintings on walls
table with print holders
people and another angle by my pieces
The art fair went along with the local towns celebration of the anniversary of Henry Hudson sailing up the Hudson River before it was named the Hudson River, and I guess he got as far as Albany before the river gets too shallow and narrow to sail his boat. For the festivities they also brought out reproductions of ships that would be around during that time such as the one I have photos of here. It came out around 3pm and fired a shot from the fake cannon and scared the living you know what out of me. It was pretty spectacular to see it though, especially when there where a bunch of modern barges and ships in the river as well.
Yes yes I said I would start blogging again daily, and then a bunch of stuff began happening and I broke my promise. I apologize to everyone who waits daily for my updates. So, I grind my teeth apparently and had to have a night guard made that I am supposed to wear whenever I can especially at the computer. Of course I am not wearing it right now that would require me to go to another room and get it. O.K. I went and retrieved it because my last sentence sounded pretty lazy, but now I can’t whistle at my dog and I am positive this makes him very sad. The big exciting news is that I am no longer unemployed and will begin another new career position on Monday. I am happy I will have income again, but still really upset that I made a really bad decision by leaving my teaching position in NC and moving to NY because now I will make far less again while still paying twice as much in bills, plus the state of New York now officially owns me, oh yeah and can I say I really loved teaching!
The other big thing that happened is I am finally getting my flat files so I can store all my paper flat and nt in portfolios. I won them on ebay for the price of $63 and they are 55″ x 45″ and five drawers. These files probably sell used at a store for $600 easy, but ebay is still pretty good when it comes to pick up only items because you have far less bidders. I do have to drive to New Jersey for a two round trip, but I rather do that then spend a fortune for brand new pieces or have to build them which would cost me a lost in time, frustrations, and money still. I can finally forgive Yoshi for missing the opportunity of getting a set of flat files in Grad school because he needed to buy a crappy office chair. Which does remind me I still would like to find a free office desk, and hopefully I can refinish Ali’s desk this summer. We bought this monster last summer and have just never had the opportune time to sand it and stain it. I will get it done I swear! That is all I have to say for the minute except to remember stop by the store pages and check out all the new items I have in there.
