I made a Facebook page today to share details for my new adventure - art festivals. I have my first show in Oct. at Winter Park, FL. I entered it in Digital Art - but I have been accepted in Photography at other shows. This category thing is a bit of a conundrum. Any advice is welcome.
I have tried to be prepared - but there are many areas of un-certainty. Pricing, advertising, setting up alone, handling shoppers, packaging sales (if I get some , ha). One area I am worried about is keeping track of shoppers/clients.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. L. Stewart Powers
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Winter Park Autumn is one of the better Florida shows. At least it was for me when I lived down there.
Welcome aboard the AFI train, SP. I look forward to seeing more posts from you. Good luck with your first show, Winter Park FLORIDA ARTISTS ONLY venue. We were in the spring Winter Park Sidewalk Festival in 2014, won an award, and decided against reapplying for 2015. Too bad since the judges picked plenty of realism, so we might have won big. Oh well.
I see you just posted in the discussion forum. I don't know anything much about Facebook, so i can't comment about that subject.
Why did you call those one of a kind photo mixed media works monoprints? You might read the true definition of a monoprint since it's a completely different process than you've described your work to be. I say this since it will help you better categorize your work for shows. That's really important in the big shows, and you could get into them. WOOHOO!
Thanks Barrie - gelatin - its simply bad spelling. The monoprints are silver prints that are painted, worked on. So they are one of a kind. I many most of those while I was in art grad school. I did not know where I posted - first post. I'll figure it out. Thanks again for you comments. Stewart
HERE'S THE ONE ON YOUR WEBSITE I LIKE MOST
Maybe those you refer to as "Monoprint" were made by that actual process? Sorry for the multiple posts. The nature of responses to blog posts is they can't be edited after posted as can general discussion posts. I'm bad about posting and then editing a few times. Sorry.
Oh, and you've also posted this as a blog post rather than a general discussion. I don't know if it matters, but you might benefit by posting this as a discussion since it seems that's what it might be.
HERE'S A RECENT DISCUSSION ABOUT PHOTO VS. DIGITAL
You have interesting work, and I'm especially fond of the black and white fictional landscape despite ordinarily gravitating to figurative work. But after reviewing plenty of your work on your website, I would say most is photography. It's manipulated photography. Those that are completely painted over and to which you refer to as monoprints may be considered mixed media. But then a few of those that show obviously manipulated and drawn upon photographs would still be photography in my book (rather than considered mixed media).
You refer to some of these as "Gelatine." Are they silver prints, as in gelatin silver prints? I'm wondering why you put an "E" on the word "Gelatin?" I don't think I've ever seen someone use the "E" on the word. Are these Light Jet prints or something similar? You have what seems to be a date of 1985, so they'd most likely be gelatin silver prints from that period if that's what that 1985 means.