Hello everyone, Just wanted to introduce myself. I have been drawing/painting all my life, but have just started to pursue it as a career (I am a biologist by day)...so I am a total newbie and am excited to have found this group! I am primarily a painter and my medium of choice is watercolor, though I have worked in oils as well. I am still a little all over the place in terms of subjects matter (kids artwork, portraits, wildlife, etc), but figure my focus will come! I will do my first show (a large local one in Canton, OH) in April and am frantically trying to get ready! I already have gathered so many valuable ideas just from reading the forums, so thanks to everyone for the collective knowledge! I look forward to contributing more in the future! You can see a little of my work at my etsy shop www.catbirdseatstudio.etsy.com if you are interested, and I am working on a true website!
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Hi Lauren... Nice to "meet" you. I checked out your work and I love your printer tray mosaics! The colors are wonderful.
Connie, I have gotten lost too much...a couple hours will go by without me even realizing! I am going to show a little of everything kind of clumped in my booth. It may be a little scattered this time, but I hope to draw it all together with the booth itself and some other touches. I want to get a feel for what and how people react. Figure a little section of kids art/furniture and then mostly watercolors of birds/farm/nature. I will have a folder showing custom work for those interested in portraits and such....we'll see how it goes!
Welcome, Anne. Have you gotten lost in the site yet? You can find almost anything here already and if you don't you just have to ask. We're all in this together.
I looked at your etsy site - really nice work, but as you said, the niche hasn't come. What are you going to be showing in Canton? Some of everything? Of course, taking your work to shows really helps you to focus, a lot of feedback both verbally and financially helps a lot.
Hi Anne!
Welcome to the group! I am a newbie too and this site will answer all of your questions. Best of luck on your first show!