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