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Who knew about February?
02/20/2008 23:56:23 / full of life
Who knew February could be so busy? I thought the "art season" wouldn't get going until well into April, but not this year! I had three events happen or get started all within three days of each other...prep for the three took me all of January!
As hectic as it was, it was great fun. A gallery I belong to [which is very new to its community participated in a wine stroll event as one of the tasting stops...it brought several hundred people into the gallery to discover this new gallery, meet the artists and see the works on display. As part of this event, the artists who are members of the gallery were asked by the owner to paint a painting that will be sold through silent auction to benefit a new art venue in the community. [I had a very busy three weeks finishing that painting!] It was a very successful evening - and the weather was remarkably agreeable.
The second thing was to get works ready for a two month show at a new winery in my community. Part of the overall event will be a charity auction of painted wine barrels. I picked up a barrel and am doing an abstract painting on it I call "Barrel Racing." I stylized horses and have six of them racing around the barrel...they are, of course, "horses of a different color!"
The third event was to help in a fundraiser for one of our local art venues in my community by painting wine glasses and posters. It was a Mardi Gras theme. I painted two posters which were used for decoration. The huge surprise was that one of the posters actually sold! And the other was requested as part of one of the vendors' payment for services! Imagine that! I was happy to participate as it was a good cause and I was pleased that my work was appreciated.
I don't do much charity work...my time and resources are limited...but when a cause does come along that I believe in, I will either donate a piece I already have or produce something for it as with the wine barrel. What about other artists out there...how do you all view charity donations?
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