A Year of Making Art, Day 202: The Alternative to Selling Art Through Galleries
November 7, 2007 Day 202
I enjoyed a drink with three other writers last night while we talked about self-publishing. Drinking on an empty stomach made me a bit tipsy, though, and I felt afterwards that I had headed into a hypomanic over-enthusiasm that might put the others off.
In today's drawing I used black, blue and purple calligraphy pens, adding lines with a fine point black pen, and filling in spaces with brush pens.
Tonight I am on a panel at the State of the Art Gallery, where the topic is "Getting in the Door: Issues of Presenting Artwork for Acceptance by Galleries, Museums and Alternatives." I am presenting the alternative--selling art through the internet. Having a professional website has also helped me to find galleries, so it's not as if you have to choose one over the other, although some galleries would prefer artists not sell their work that way.
(Note: There is a gap between the dates I'm writing and posting in order to give me time to get ahead.)




