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How to set up an outdoor booth
At the last Queen West Art Crawl, a neighbouring artist came by to my booth and started looking around. She explained that she wanted to see how we hung up the grids. We explained that we used zip ties, but I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her as I was certainly in a situation…
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The Fun of Reactions to My Paintings
The 2025 Queen West Art Crawl was a massive success! While I didn’t see as many old friends this year, I got to meet a lot of people and shared the stories behind my art. I always find it fascinating to see what sold well. What did people like? On my first day, it seemed…
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The last checks
This morning I had to do my last checks in prep for the Queen West Art Crawl. It always paid to double check things rather than assume things were set up properly as I had left them from my last art show. This morning, I discovered my Square reader didn’t seem to turn on. I…
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New things to think about for an outdoor art exhibit
I finally finished up my last prints and cards for my upcoming Queen West Art Crawl 2025 exhibit. I’ve previously written about all the takeaways from my first exhibit here and there are things I’ve thought about the second time around that are changes from my previous time. So there you have it, the next…
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Returning to Queen West Art Crawl
I’ll be returning to the Queen West Art Crawl, on Saturday September 20 to Sunday September 21 2025. I exhibited there at back in my first year in 2023. I haven’t received yet the package of where my booth will be but will be very happy to announce it when it comes out. It means…
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How to use social media effectively as an artist
I once attended a seminar regarding how to use social media effectively from a broader non-art perspective. Fundamentally, the basic is: 1) attend events, 2) take pictures, and 3) post. It sounds dumb but it’s true. The issue is how to make effective posts that are engaging. When I originally ventured into doing this, I…
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How to survive a rainy outdoor art show
I had a fantastic time at the Oakville Art in the Park on August 5, 2024. While the morning was cloudy and rain threatened, the day became hot and humid by the time patrons came by at 10 AM. It was only until about 4 PM right when the day was closing out when finally…
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Getting back into it
I put some of my larger paintings into frames, getting ready for the Oakville Art in the Park festival. It’s a nice payoff to put items with mats already cut into frames, since you get to see how the work finally looks with relatively little effort. Still have to cut a few smaller mats for…
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Accepted!
I received word that I’ll be at the Oakville Art in the Park on August 5, 2024, the Civic Holiday! I visited last year to see what it was like and it was much larger than I expected. Part of me wanted to try out something different than I’ve done before, though the Toronto Outdoor…
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Making Decisions
Many outdoor art show applications in Toronto are all around this time of year. It is a bit unusual from my perspective because they are at varied times in the year anyways – why would they be all at March? And why all at the first or second week of March? I received a few…
