Summer Gallery Tour 2011
Note for next year: Buy more white wine and serve Mom’s zucchini bread again! Thank you all for coming!! It was a fun evening. We were too busy to take many photos but I did remember to take a couple. This was my fourth GT in my Oakwood studio. I participated every year that I was at Meridian Arts with Dan and Arch, so I’ve been doing this for a while. On Oakwood, I’m only doing the summer tour, passing on the December Holiday event.
I couldn’t have made it without my terrific help. Don poured wine, Minnie greeted and helped people thumb through my paintings, and Mark TALKED. Correction - Mark ATE and talked :). Minnie even dashed out on a “wine run” when we ran low.
The lady behind the hand (her name starts with an M….) turned out to be the top saleslady of the evening. I need suggestions on how I can convince her to give up her day job and work for me without pay. I know she’ll come on board, I just need the right pitch!
And today I was totally exhausted. No exaggeration. I finally settled down behind the encaustic table and worked until 4:30 but it took a while this morning for me to get my act together. I turned off the palettes and framed a piece that SHOULD have been ready to pick up last night, spent some time with a guest, and left the studio around 6:00.
I’m starting a new piece on Monday morning. Visitors are MOST welcome all next week — I don’t want to waste a clean studio on just me and the cats. And again, thank you all for coming last night and making Gallery Tour a huge success for all the galleries and studios.
