Reminded Her of Pops

Chris — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:43:54 +0000

Hello Million Friends,

During my last exhibition, I was next to a woman I had never met. Her art was religious Calligraphy with painting around and over the text.

“This is my first show, can you give me some advice?” she asked. Sure, I can give you plenty of advice. Keep going, work from your intuition. If you don’t feel comfortable after a meeting with a gallery owner, you would be wise to accept that and move on. As with any business, this is a learn as you go career. Oh sure there are many marketing tools to use, but there are twice as many unpredictable scenarios that can result from anything having to do with being a artist.

She was nice enough to watch my space so that I could look around. As luck would have it, someone interested in buying walked by and asked about a painting while I was away.

Oh yea, one more piece of advice, DON’T LEAVE YOUR SPACE WHEN THERE’S A POTENTIAL BUYER COMING BY.

I always bring the bald head with me for fun and conversation. The looker was interested in my “Bald Head” painting, very interested, because it reminded her of her father. Yes it ” looks just like the back of his head, I’ll be back later in the afternoon to buy it”.

I present….drum roll…”Bald Head” aka “Advertise Here”.

A few years ago I planned on doing a series of bald heads, I’m not sure why. But some bald heads have a lot of character, it’s the bone structure. When you see someone from a distance, you will know them by the shape of their head.

Another reference photo for Bald Head series, his shirt is more interesting.

Moral of the story, if a painting gives a looker warm fuzzies it’s for a reason, and a collector is born. The relationship here was between the looker and her father. The last paintings or note cards I sold were to nurses at doctor/dentist office that I’ve been going to for years. They know me, it’s all about relationship again.

It’s all about relationship, amazing!

Pray for peace,

Chris

They Were Waiting

Chris — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:18:42 +0000

A couple days ago I accidentally sent out a personal email to my husband who happens to be my webmaster, and for the sake of this article I will call him my master. It wasn’t awful, well…okay it was awful, perfect word.

As the responses to the mistaken email streamed into my inbox from clients, friends, relatives and a couple stray people I would love to adopt…I wanted to crawl under my desk…oh the shame.

For some odd reason I felt like I needed to give myself a courtesy flush. Too late! Everyone was so nice it makes perfect sense to share some of the responses, so here goes:

“I noticed it was probably a mistake since it was addressed to Bill. No problem!”

“You are such an extraordinary person!“

“Hi Chris, nice to hear from you although this seems not to concern me personally, LOL. Have a great week, greetings from Paris!”

“I am an Italian photographer, I went to your web site and I think your work is wonderful.”

“Not sure why this sent to me. I don’t have this client.”

Dear Chris, “Well, hello there how ya doin’?”

“Am I going to read about you in the newspaper tomorrow after he beats you??? Thanks! I really feel the Spirit moving around my choice to pursue life coaching!”

“Hi! Thanks for this e-mail. I’ve been wanting to look at some of your artwork and ponder buying something. Thank you! I especially LOVE “Sweet Barb’s Flower. My name is Barb too!”

I woke up at 2:45 a.m. and couldn’t sleep because my mind was painting and I had to get up and do something about it.

Here is an example of my process, this is a highly experimental smaller piece, 8×8″, much like my highly experimental larger pieces.

Start:

Then the image appeared in the center, a woman holding a child. Sure, I see a row of people heading in the direction of 2:00, and now I also see a man with a hat in the center in the Alizarin at the top center. The woman with child was the image I was drawn into so that is what I painted. When the process flows like this the hope is always renewed for my future paintings.

Finish:

Photo Credit: RBerteig

Pray for peace,
Chris

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