The Chair Affair

This is one of my latest adventures that I will be participating in. It is a local event with many rewards for the selected chairs. This will be my first year of entering so wish me luck. I have my designs drawn up and ready to summit.

I finished up my second Indian Temple Mound plein-air painting on Monday. Our group met at
Turkey Creek http://www.cityofniceville.org/turkey.html in Niceville, Fl. I was able to capture yet anough surreal moment in time along the creek's meandering water through the remenance of trees old and new. I could have stayed there all day. We will be heading back out to this location again next week, weather permitting.

I carried 7 more paintings to Snappy Photo for slides, photos & a cd of the images. So I'll have more to add to my site soon. I have several out of State juried shows that I will be summitting slides to as well as several shows in Florida, both locally and on the other end of the state. I'm dropping off a painting "Red Light District" at ADSO (Arts & Design Society) "Figuratively Speaking" Members Show, tomorrow. I will be updating my Bio page with more details of the up coming shows. And my events page of up coming events that I'm participating in.

I was also summons to donate a piece of artwork for an up and coming benefit for the "Second Annual Bob Hope Memorial Charity Golf Classic" being held in Destin, Florida on May 22-23, 2005. So I called the organizer of the event and confirmed that I would be giving a Giclee Print of their choosing from my site.

I've been working on my Fantasy painting for the Imago Gallery show "Garden of Good and Evil". It's been a real challenge to find a finish to the piece and as the time of the show is fast approaching. I will prevail and the completion is near, I will be working on it again tonight.

Last night we had another Family Art Night, my wife and daughter at the pallets of creativity on a space painting. I had them use their own ideas with just a few technics of splattering in the stars and in creating the illusion of a black hole....well they weren't black holes after we got done with them LOL.

I contacted a gallery in south Walton County near Seaside, Fl. about placement of my originals and my Giclee prints in the gallery. I will be visiting them this coming week, and hopefully will be hanging in a very high profile location in N.W. Florida's prime vacation locations. I will keep you posted on this.

Well that's been the happenings for the past week, this week will be better yet!

Brad Greek
http://www.artbybradgreek.com

Thrive in '05

Ron Kensey of The Artist Printshop in Sheridan, WY. has put together this project to assist artists get to that next level in their careers. With marketing tips and brainstorming as a group, to produce, pre-sell and go to Giclee reproduction print with your work. This will be an experience like no other and the rewards will be above those that we achieve alone. Having a support group to give you instant feedback and suggestions along with a system of marketing to get your work out in front of the potential buyers. So check this out, join or just keep checking in on the progress that we are achieving.

It's great to have supportive friends in this business that will tell you like it is and to help you grow as a marketing artist.

Well it's been over a week since my last post, so I'll give you a run down on the progress of the week. First of all the Beaux Art Exhibition was a very artistic show with works in all mediums and styles. Several of my friends won an award and even a plein-air painting took a ribbon. I seen several pieces sell and I met some great artists that I've heard of, and now I have had the honor to meet. I took a friend with me to his first art show ever. He is a tatoo artist that is wanting to enter into the fine art world. He jumped right in their and met with everyone and I think he was really impressed with how the whole process worked and just how friendly artists are. I picked up my paintings after the reception on Sunday the 6th.

My plein-air group had gotten rained out last Wednesday, but we were able to dodge the drops yesterday as we set up at the Indian Temple Mound again. The curator of the museum came out and took pictures of us and made up a brochure of us, while we were still there, and posted it up inside the museum. Also several schools were having field trips through the museum, so they seen more then they bargained for. "Oh Wow, Artists!" they yelled as they came running over to see our paintings. I think we got them in trouble for getting out of line. LOL It's all in the name of art!! "Teachers, leave those kids alone!"--Pink Floyd. LOL

Any ways, I have another Indian Temple Mound painting that I still have to put some finishing touches to.

I had a house full of people all weekend, so there wasn't any painting going on. Not to mention I had alot to do with my hobby as a maintenance/ property manager. LOL

I ordered alot of paints and display folders from Dick Blick's yesterday, They are having an awesome sale right now.

Ron Kensey sent me a strongbox to ship him a painting to try out his new mural wall hanging equipment out with. I sent him a 20x16 plein-air painting of the Gulf of Mexico's beauty. I titled the painting "The Shining", because I was capturing the shine on the water from the late morning sun had casted. I believe it will look great at a larger size, so that's why I chose it.
I shipped the painting out to him yesterday, this is going to be exciting to see!

I worked on my website last night and added another Gallery to my home page. It is for my plein-air paintings. I only had 5 to post in the gallery at this time, but it will grow much larger, fast. So go check that out if you like, yet another style of painting that I do. I truely love the plein-air experience........I'm hooked!! LOL

Well that's about all I have for now so I'll sign off with another thought to ponder.
"Do we artists really see things differently then others?"
Brad

46th Annual Beaux Arts Exhibition

Hello everyone,

Well it's been a couple days from my last post, so I thought I would catch you all up on what I've been doing. On Monday I put the final touches on my plein-air painting of the "Indian Temple Mound". I decided to enter it into this competition so today I got it framed and ready to go. I'm also entering my plein-air painting "Secluded Paradise" that I completed the week before last. As my third entry I decided to go with my surrealistic wildlife painting"I Don't Think So!". Tommorrow will be the delivery date, with the 4th,5th and 6th will be the show. So wish me luck, LOL.

I picked up 5 plein-air paintings that I had slides, photos and digital images made, from Snappy Photo in Ft. Walton Beach. This is my first step in the process I go through with each finished painting. Then it's off to the print shop for scanning the painting for the Giclee reproduction print process. Then to the framer to get the piece framed. Now it is show ready and if the original sells at the show I'm ready to sell. I'm explaining this to you so that you will know that when you see a piece of artwork hanging in a show or gallery, that that painting has been through a regiment of processes before you ever get to view it. All of this can take weeks to complete with alot of time and money invested in the process. I just wanted to share this with you.

I picked up my painting "Path to Temptations" from the ADSO Art Challenge show on Sunday and dropped it back off at the printshop. They were in the color balancing stage of the process when I had to get it to the framer and to the show a few weeks ago. So they are finishing that up and a print will be ready for my marketing portfolio.

Our plein-air gathering got canceled today due to heavy winds and rain. So I'll have to venture out on my own later this week to get a subject on canvas. I have set a goal to do one plein-air a week. So far so good for the year.

Last night I got started back on a fantacy painting that I have been working on. Trying to finish it up so that I can get busy working on a new project for print releases. I have signed on to participate with a group of artists and a Giclee printmaker/ Gallery owner Ron Kensey( ArtistPrintshop's "Thrive in '05" project) to work together on how to market and when to market your print releases. It should be very informative and supportive for us artists that have taken our art to the print market. I'm fired up about this and have already designed the layout for the new releases for the next 2-3 years. So I'm ready to get that started.

Well that's about it for now so I'll have to sign off with a thought:
Positive attitude with positive action= success
Positive attitude with negative action= mediocracy
Negative attitude with positive action= mediocracy
Negative attitude with negative action= failure.

Brad Greek