At the suggestion of an artist friend, I will be giving you an overview today about what’s coming up for me this Fall, now that Summer is pretty much over and my regular stints at the local Farmer’s Market are coming to an end. Well, it turns out, a lot! I am already present at two ongoing art shows, one that ends October 17 and the other October 31st. They are both group shows, one in Sherbrooke and the other in Magog. We actually had a real live in-person “vernissage” in Magog last week, where I was lucky enough to win a door prize, a nice studio apron, which I really needed! Now I have to make time to sort out the studio so I can get some work done! Not that I have been idle, quite the contrary! I have spent the last 3 (now going on 4) full days on the computer, filling out a variety of applications and updating my website to include my full-sized paintings. The online service that I had been using up to now to display them was separate from my website, where I had only my smaller, easy to ship items. They are shutting down that particular service next week, so I had to put the finishing touches on the new page that will now house these larger paintings on my website. I actually think this makes more sense, so even though I was upset when I got the news about the service shutting down, it turns out to be a good thing. I also wrote and sent a press release to a local paper about my plan to spread knowledge locally about ACEOs(Art Cards, Editions and Originals) and ATCs(Artist Trading Cards). I will be curious to see if they decide to print it. I doubt it very much, but you never know! Culture Days are coming up, so they might be interested in publishing something more in line with art and culture! Speaking of Culture Days, that is next weekend, and coincides with the last Farmer’s Market in my town. I will be at the market on Friday of course, trying to get people interested in ATCs. I will also have two of my paintings in an art show on Saturday. There is a free concert in the evening, so there should be lots of visitors! I ordered some more business cards and bookmarks to hand out at these events, which I will have to go pick up later today. I filled out an application for another art show in Magog, and signed up for a Facebook promotion run by a local marketing firm; this online event will take place in November, and will group dozens of local businesses that will be offering prizes to participants. I will be offering a 5x7 custom watercolor if you want to watch for that! Oh yes, and I am also participating all week in an online “Content Camp”, which aims to teach budding entrepreneurs how and what to post on social media to get attention. And it’s all about the attention, isn’t it!?! Tell me if you notice anything different with my posts in the next few weeks! This coming Sunday we will be attending an art show opening at an Art Center of which I recently became a member. I have heard that attending this type of event can be a good place to meet the “right people”. We’ll see! Being an introvert doesn’t make meeting people easy, but I have been working on it! The following week, Saturday, October 2nd, I will be “manning” the exhibit at the Sherbrooke exhibition. If you are local and would like to see any of my work, let me know so I can bring it in for you! Details on all my current exhibitions can be found on my website. The only other possible event on the current radar is a weekend Christmas Market in November. I haven’t decided yet if I will be participating in that. What do you think? Is that a place for art, or more for crafts? Is “exposure” worth the price of a space and the time spent there? Do you shop at Christmas Markets? Would you buy art (small pieces) there? I would love to see you answers in the comments below! I hope to find some time to actually make art this week! I received some new pastels and need to redo a swatch sheet. That may be as far as I get! Oh well, next week looks pretty open!
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