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.

I am still waiting on that phone call and becoming impatient.  Ali woke up with a really bad migraine this morning so the day started very slow, but soon I will get down in the studio.  Plus Bixby is really needing attention today and with the trick that Ali taught him which is to jump on your lap while you are working on the computer makes it awfully hard to type and work.  He is now currently sitting on my lap which he is a bit big to do and he keeps licking my hands. I am definitely going down to the new cafe today to present myself as an artist they should show so maybe I can sell some more pieces.

I did a google search for myself today to find out everywhere I am on the web and every time  I do this I find something new about myself.  I applied to be in a book a year ago or more and I thought I was denied, turns out I was wrong or they sent the wrong letter because I am in it and one of the featured listings.  WTF seems like a pretty important thing for me at this point in my career to know about so I am glad I decided to Google.  I also found that I went back 19 pages deep which seems like a good thing to me, now just to do the same for general art term searches.  I will update later hopefully with a few completed pieces and to say how the cafe turns out.  Bye Mom I will give a call as soon as I hear anything!