The pictures are done.
I still have printing and framing and easels and artists statements and menus and silent auction details and, and, and...a million other little things left to do for the show to be a good show. But. The pictures are done. Like, the steak is off the grill, resting, medium rare, and we've just gotta get the table set and the side dishes off the stove. It's a good spot, after a year plus of fretting and working. As I have said before, not sure who will like the pictures, but as much as I was capable with the time I have had available, I finished them. And I like what I have done. And that's all you can do, right?
There's an unlisted password protected SmugMug gallery with all 22 Movement + Color images out there somewhere. You can't see those, but you can see them all in person if you come to my party on April 21st :-)
You wouldn't think that finding a good easel option would be a major damn project on its own. But it is. I can find awesome $300 easels, but man, I need like 10 of them so no thanks there. $9.99 easels from piecesocrap.com are easy to find, too...and yeah, would be great to watch one of my pictures crash to the ground during the show. Eighty million googleamazon searches and I think I might have found one. So I am posting a picture of...an easel. This is what my life has become.
This is an easel which will hopefully not make me broke and will also not drop my photographs.
Ten pictures at the framer right now and the remaining 12 in about a week. Later this week I will go in and sign them before they are sealed up. That's another thing - whether to sign a photographic print, on the front or back or the mat or not at all, and in pencil or pen and do we go with archival ink? Lord, what people won't make a big deal of. By the way, I'm signing them, on the front, in the margin on the lower right, with the title in the lower left, plus a verification of the date on the back, in special carbon pencils that are coming via UPS tomorrow. This is what my life has become.
Lots and lots of magical helpers continue to swirl around...Kim is my always, and Anne, and Maggie, and Terry and Monroe Street Michelle, and Picture Salon discounts, and open minded Kimi, and Chorus Christi and Josh always brewing. Good people. You will get to meet them, if...
YOU COME TO THE SHOW! I love you all. But man, there are a bunch of you that have been so sweet to tell me that you are coming...you just need to go out and buy your tickets. Really, it's awesome and I am so happy, but you're all stressing me out :-). We're way over half way, but not sold out. Do your thing. Pull the trigger. It's going to be fun. BUY TICKETS AT THIS LINK: http://www.isthmustickets.com/events/50929306/movement-color
Go do something hard you have always wanted to do. You won't regret it. Peace.