My Digital Demo 5/15

"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so."
-- Thomas Carlyle

I used the above work, DREAMS OF RED, to illustrate how to photograph work digitally, place in Adobe Photoshop and prepare for submission to exhibits accepting digital in lieu of slides. I also went thru the process of how to email and follow the exhibit jurors' instructions (which is extremely important to even have one's work considered). I also wrote a 3-page handout, taking the reader step-by-step through the entire process (from equipment and software selection to how to position one's work to photograph properly). This demo was done for the St. Louis Watercolor Society. Over 30 members attended the demo. I rec'd. a lot of compliments on the thoroughness of my program.

If you would like a PDF copy of my handout, please let me know in the comments area of this post. I enjoyed helping others broaden their ability to submit to exhibits they might otherwise have thought was not within their reach.

Addendum: I have just learned that ART ST. LOUIS is now accepting (and prefers) digital submissions (on CD and DVD) for their members' "artists' registry." Forward thinking, as corporations and other entities prefer to view digital files for possible lease and/or purchase of artists' works.

RIVERS OF COLOR May, '07

RIVERS OF COLOR was the first ST. LOUIS WATERCOLOR SOCIETY that I submitted my work. The exhibit was held at Creative Arts Gallery on Ivanhoe in South St. Louis. Wonderful venue for an art exhibit! My painting is titled "RED" (look to right in the photo, between and above the sculptures).....one more juried acceptance in this society and I will have "signature" status. Only half the submissions were accepted into the exhibit. So I was pleased.



"When I begin painting I am in a state of unconsciousness; I suddenly forget that I am holding a brush in my hand."
-- Wu Chen

CAFE DOLCE 4/15 thru 6/15

My first solo exhibit was held earlier this spring and early summer at Cafe Dolce, a wonderful little European style cafe in O'Fallon, Illinois. I hope to have a invitational gathering next spring at this stylish little place that serves excellent pastries for breakfast and luncheon soups and sandwiches. Paintings displayed:




"One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art – and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois."
-- Paul Cezanne