Fall Studio Tour 2008 Finished
Two weekends and one incredibly busy week in between and the fall Studio Tour 2008 is now history! The fall Studio Tour is always a busy time. You are always trying to figure out what your customers would like to see and buy.
It's the Economy Stupid
So many things can affect the success of a Studio Tour:
- quality and quantity of artists
- location of artists
- availability of tickets and/or studio tour guides
- the economy
This year, it was definitely the economy. All the planning over the past 6 months or so by the great Placerville Arts Association folks couldn't foresee what would be happening with the economy—and this year people were tighter with their money. When you consider that the day after the fall 2008 Studio Tour ended the Dow took it's largest fall in history, you understand. During the week in between, several banks failed and were taken over by others.
Location & Cohorts
All that aside, we always have fun during the Studio Tour. I was with a great bunch of people at Tony and Lu Lobue's home (and wonderful park-like back yard). Of the 4 days of the tour, the last day (Sunday, 9/28/08) was definitely the best day—but even at that, the day wasn't great. In addition to Tony and Lu's wonderful paintings, Pam Snyder was there with her great oil paintings on copper and Dianna Schwierzke had her beautiful inside-painted glass vases, cards, painted tiles and paintings.
New Ideas & Connections
I guess the thing I enjoy most is talking with folks doing the Studio Tour and getting ideas about new photo ideas I want to try. My Ready to Go photographic art (top of this post) was the most popular and the one I sold the most of. I also had several people who want to get together soon to have me tutor them in Photoshop.
Catching Up
Now comes the catching up. I've been going over my new ideas notes and need to contact the folks I talked to during the Studio Tour to follow up on our conversations. And, things just get put on hold during the time of the Studio Tour (like, for example, posts to this Blog!).
So, this is catch-up and back-to-reality week. One great thing about doing the Studio Tour is that now that it is done, I have a lot of new work to display at the gallery!
KVIE Art Auction
In the Gold Country Artists Gallery blog I have a blurb about my "fifteen minutes of fame" (actually, 30 minutes) being the on-air spokesperson for the Gallery during the 2008 KVIE Art Auction. It was a great experience—check it out!
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