October 25, 2015
My show has been up for a week with no additional
sales. I worked at the gallery last
night and most of the people who came in prior to going to the play did not
understand that I had illustrated 60s music and that the records would actually
play a few seconds of the songs. After I
talked to them and demonstrated, they thought it was really fun. I did sell a piece of art last night, but not
from the featured artist show. I sold an
embellished print that I made of my church, Blessed Sacrament, to a
parishioner.
I have had 3 people tell me that they did not understand the
angel with the upset woman in Bridge Over Troubled Water. They thought the bridge was a physical iron
bridge. I see it as faith being the
bridge that secures peace. They said
that after I explained, it made sense.
Most people really like Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show. I am surprised that it has not sold. But I like it too and would not mind keeping
it.
Even though the rush of getting the show ready is over, I am
still creating. I finished two frog
canvases (collage) for the silent auction for Dancing with the Stars. One is the wife who is cooking a skillet of
flies and the other is her husband who is reading the paper. I also painted a young Lincoln painting for a
local cover contest. And I am currently
working on painting a scene from the Alaska trip that I made 14 months
ago. I took a lot of good pictures on
that trip and many would make good paintings.
I am going to concentrate on entering art contests and
finding new ways to get my art out since it seems likely that the Prairie Art
Alliance will not continue for long. I
may start selling art instead of just cards in my Etsy shop. But that is a long shot. It would be nice to have another
gallery. I was in Jacksonville at the
Eclectic and in Peoria at the Main Statement, but both are closed. Art galleries are not faring well in the
current economic climate—at least in central Illinois where we don’t know if
the state will stay open much longer.
