My First Event

This past week was my very first gallery-type event.  Local florist Abloom hosted a get together featuring five local artists.

I feel like a real grown-up artist now.. :-)

The whole thing was elating and stressful and probably good practice for my upcoming initiation into the world of art festivals in August.

The impossible choices of picking limited pieces to actually print for the show.  The logistics of getting everything assembled and transported over to the site.  The amount of time to get everything displayed.  (Double the original estimate and that was with Sterling's help.)  The last minute signing of limited edition paperwork and posting of prices.  Yikes!

While the event was wonderful, and I actually sold some pieces <shocked face>, I find that more and more often I almost have to divorce the process of taking the photos from the process of attempting to run a business marketing and selling said photos.  Its hard to feel inspired by flowers with a head full of accounting figures from working on my finance spreadsheets.  And when leading up to events its even harder to find the time to process pictures that have already been taken while trying to figure out if I have enough frames or if the matting will arrive on time.

visit Samantha Byrnes' online gallery