This is my first booth with home made display panels. I'd love to hear your comments, good and bad (especially the bad). I know it's just a starter display until I get some mileage on the art fair circuit. Hoping to eventually get pro-panels and lighting. Maybe next year if sales continue to be good as they have been so far. I'm already making two corner panels to fill in those bright spots in the back.
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Right. No chairs (and at the show they are not in a good spot either, plus for what its worth, I heard it again at the Zapp conference, standing in your booth is the best way to make sales. Think of a retail situation where the salespeople are sitting ... maybe only Santa Claus.
Take the price tags down also. Nice panels and good color. Can you make one or two larger pieces, show stoppers, that will be the focal point of the booth? That would give more gravitas to the display. It doesn't look like your work is miniature, so seems this could be done. Even if they don't sell they can be your price leaders to sell the smaller work.
I'd hang the top pieces at a little above eye level, bring everything down. Think about these walls as how someone would be hanging the work in their home or office and hang and group accordingly. You may be very tall, but a lot of us aren't and that would kind of answer Greg's comment about the lower empty space.
Thanks Connie,
I'm definitely loosing the chairs and the tags. My first show went well without the tags and prompted people to ask. I'm getting started on some larger paintings today (24x36) to submit to the C. M. Russell Museum's auction in March. They are easier on my eyes and force me to stand at the easel and walk back and forth to view it from various distances at eye level. (I wish I had a larger studio.) I also think they will photograph better. Hopefully, I can shoot new pics before the weather changes here. Here is a shot without the chairs:
I don't think Connie meant to lose the price tags at a show, she just meant to lose them for your booth picture for show applications. I am annoyed if work isn't priced and I have to ask.
Yes, Michael. Thanks for that clarification. I am also very annoyed when I can't find price tags at the shows. I am not a "high end" buyer though, so perhaps that may make a difference. Maybe that works with them and I am looking at it through my prism.
Thanks for clarifiying that. I do remember reading a Zapplication that had requirements for printed price tags. Is there an ideal size? ...Size of Tag?, Font Size?
Your homemade panels look really nice. Are they plywood that is painted? I agree about filling in the bright spots in the back. I would get rid of the chairs in the booth shot. Chairs are fine at a show but they do not help the photo. You also might want to get some taller directors chairs for the shows so you can be more at eye level with a standing person when sitting. Not the best placement for chairs when someone comes into your tent...you don't want to block their access...
The lower parts of the panels look empty with no paintings...but it is probably too low to view comfortably.
Thanks Greg,
The panels are "Homasote" with exterior latex paint. Homasote works excellent for push pins, but is very fragile for set up and tear down. I have booth shots with and without chairs. I'll use the ones without chairs.