I just finished building my display panels and wanted to do a pre-setup of my booth before my first art fair in 2 weeks. I admit it took a bit longer than I imagined it would and of course even though we are in a huge drought here in Southern California it decided to start sprinkling on me. I also had a time constraint because I had to get one of these paintings to a gallery by 4pm so I didn't have enough time to rearrange the paintings for different shots. But enough excuses, here was my first shot and I know its a bit unbalanced which I really wish I had time to deal with, but is this a decent shot for submissions? I would love to hear critiques.
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I played with Photoshop for a bit, I had already removed the grass from the photo, but after looking the image over, I made some of the changes I talked about
I didn't realize you could zoom in so much, lol. I have more work to do it seems...
Thanks Connie, I'm very much a perfectionist. All I see is the painting thats too high and slightly crooked, the heavy wall on the right and the light wall on the left...lol.
Yes, you are right, I am very thankful for your site. I have been reading all I can, and downloading all the relevant podcasts to doing my first show. I have also done many searches just on booth setups to see what I liked and how I want my booth to look. I am most worried about wind, I didn't want to buy a $1000 tent for my first show in case I find it doesn't work for me, so I am going to stake my tent and use weights and get insurance, lol.
I did make my panels. I live in California and as I researched new ProPanels, it seemed it costs as much to ship them here as it does to buy them. I tried looking for used ones, but they come up so rarely in my area (probably because no one wants to pay that much in shipping) that they are still expensive and go really quickly.
I found Ernie's link to buying instructions for making panels. I normally would never do that and just figure it out myself. I'm so glad I did, the job was really big and I would have easily wasted the money trying to figure things out. All in all, I built 12 knock down panels that cover all three walls for right around $700 and that included the support bars and all the connectors and hanging equipment. I saved a fortune. If anyone is thinking about using Ernie's instructions, I highly recommend it.
Yes, I see that too, that painting that sticks up, and a bit of imbalance. Not to worry.
Cool that you used Ernie's link. It is such a good resource, and if you've got the time, why not? The panels look great. Yes, get insurance -- what is the upcoming show?
The Southwest Arts Festival in Indio California. I have a lot of local art buddies from doing Art Walks and they have said good things about it. So I decided to apply and got in. Living in California I'm surprised how few big festivals there are down here. The first time I checked the West Coast list of shows, the first 3 were a 3 days drive east for me in Texas, lol.
Looks great to me, Christopher. Looks like you have been doing research and reading to get it right.
Did you make your panels? They look very professional.