I have worked on my booth shot all weekend following Larrys advice. I have looked at it so long I'm going cross eyed. I am wanting to apply to a show and the deadline is tomorrow at midnight. Please let me know if this looks god enough to submit.
Thansks so much - Doris
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Thanks for embedding that booth image, Larry. Now that I can count them, more than half of Doris's images contain people, and I think some of them are much stronger than the flowers. Nearly every Sunday painter paints flowers, and nearly every Sunday painter wishes they had the skill to paint people.
I have only talked with friends about their experiences with open and mock juries. One of the open juries was 2014 Winter Park Sidewalk which we were juried into and did last year (and won an award). So I've been in the big shows, too.
Wha'ppen to the booth shot? I was just going to look at it again to see where in it these jury images were hanging. I usually have one or two of my jury images directly facing the jury so that they have immediate recognition.
I don't know, Larry. A few of her portrait works seem like they could have been done just for the love of painting people in this fashion. And since she loves doing them, I thought that a few of them should be included in the back facing the jury.
It's a tough call, Doris, to pick which one's might be stronger images since all three jury images need to relate to one another in a cohesive fashion to make the application stronger. Yes, I think one or two depicting people might be better, but that's my bias. Flowers are not my thing, unless they are depicted in an unusual way or in a way other than as a posterized seed catalog image. Now don't take my criticism of the flowers wrongly since you should show and sell what you like painting. So if you substitute a portrait painting in place of the flower or one of the birds, you might not have as cohesive a set of images as you do now.
Larry Berman > Barrie Lynn BryantDecember 1, 2014 at 8:48am
> "A few of her portrait works seem like they could have been done just for the love of painting people in this fashion. And since she loves doing them, I thought that a few of them should be included in the back facing the jury."
Which is why artists ask for booth picture evaluations here before using them for applications. Doesn't matter how good or for what purpose she painted the portraits. They don't mix with the flower pictures on the back wall. The subject matter is too different and will raise questions, or may just get her a lower score.
Maybe I should clarify something here. It may be more than appropriate for smaller local shows, but my suggestions are based on applying to the better shows that I attend open juries for, or have personally applied to in the past.
I've added back her booth picture reduced and embedded.
Wow, really good advice. I got so caught up in balancing my booth I didn't think of arranging them based on subject matter. I started painting again, after not painting for 23 years and I started out doing portraits. I love painting anything colorful and am trying to find a subject matter that keeps my interest. I don't seem to like painting just one think, i.e. flowers, birds, etc. I am going to go ahead and submit this booth shot for the one that has a deadline of tomorrow and spend next Saturday setting it up like you suggested, Barrie. Here are the picts that I am submitting as my main pictures. If you think any of the other ones would be stronger, let me know. Thanks for your advice, I have been reading the forums for almost a year now, time to get out there. LOL
I think the portrait of the two folks in the upper right back corner is a good one and would like to see it in place of one of the girls who are in the center. I would put the flowers in a tight group of four (responding to what Larry has already mentioned about cohesive body of work) to the left side of the back panel and the two portraits (one of the girls and that one man/woman couple) on the right side of the back panel.
What I'm curious about is are you using any of these images as your jury pieces, and if so, which ones?
The booth looks really good. But I have questions about the placement of the pieces based on your subject matter and having a cohesive body of work. Unless you're taking orders for portraits, you might want to confine them to a side wall.
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Thanks for embedding that booth image, Larry. Now that I can count them, more than half of Doris's images contain people, and I think some of them are much stronger than the flowers. Nearly every Sunday painter paints flowers, and nearly every Sunday painter wishes they had the skill to paint people.
I have only talked with friends about their experiences with open and mock juries. One of the open juries was 2014 Winter Park Sidewalk which we were juried into and did last year (and won an award). So I've been in the big shows, too.
Wha'ppen to the booth shot? I was just going to look at it again to see where in it these jury images were hanging. I usually have one or two of my jury images directly facing the jury so that they have immediate recognition.
I don't know, Larry. A few of her portrait works seem like they could have been done just for the love of painting people in this fashion. And since she loves doing them, I thought that a few of them should be included in the back facing the jury.
It's a tough call, Doris, to pick which one's might be stronger images since all three jury images need to relate to one another in a cohesive fashion to make the application stronger. Yes, I think one or two depicting people might be better, but that's my bias. Flowers are not my thing, unless they are depicted in an unusual way or in a way other than as a posterized seed catalog image. Now don't take my criticism of the flowers wrongly since you should show and sell what you like painting. So if you substitute a portrait painting in place of the flower or one of the birds, you might not have as cohesive a set of images as you do now.
> "A few of her portrait works seem like they could have been done just for the love of painting people in this fashion. And since she loves doing them, I thought that a few of them should be included in the back facing the jury."
Which is why artists ask for booth picture evaluations here before using them for applications. Doesn't matter how good or for what purpose she painted the portraits. They don't mix with the flower pictures on the back wall. The subject matter is too different and will raise questions, or may just get her a lower score.
Maybe I should clarify something here. It may be more than appropriate for smaller local shows, but my suggestions are based on applying to the better shows that I attend open juries for, or have personally applied to in the past.
I've added back her booth picture reduced and embedded.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Wow, really good advice. I got so caught up in balancing my booth I didn't think of arranging them based on subject matter. I started painting again, after not painting for 23 years and I started out doing portraits. I love painting anything colorful and am trying to find a subject matter that keeps my interest. I don't seem to like painting just one think, i.e. flowers, birds, etc. I am going to go ahead and submit this booth shot for the one that has a deadline of tomorrow and spend next Saturday setting it up like you suggested, Barrie. Here are the picts that I am submitting as my main pictures. If you think any of the other ones would be stronger, let me know. Thanks for your advice, I have been reading the forums for almost a year now, time to get out there. LOL
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You need to hang the booth as if everything is for sale. The portraits come across as commission work and wouldn't be for sale at an art show.
Also it would be more constructive if you reduced your images to a manageable size, like 600 pixels long dimension, and embedded them in your post.
Larry Berman
I think the portrait of the two folks in the upper right back corner is a good one and would like to see it in place of one of the girls who are in the center. I would put the flowers in a tight group of four (responding to what Larry has already mentioned about cohesive body of work) to the left side of the back panel and the two portraits (one of the girls and that one man/woman couple) on the right side of the back panel.
What I'm curious about is are you using any of these images as your jury pieces, and if so, which ones?
The booth looks really good. But I have questions about the placement of the pieces based on your subject matter and having a cohesive body of work. Unless you're taking orders for portraits, you might want to confine them to a side wall.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100