01 February 2009

Art Festivals

Art Festivals are where most of my customers have purchased. These are fun events for buyers as well as sellers. We get to meet and talk about the photographs—where they were made, the process and all that is interesting about this endeavor. Customers are able to take the product home and enjoy the piece immediately. In this venue I strive to be competitive in pricing, as I would rather sell several reasonably priced pieces than one or two with a high premium. All work offered at shows is created, printed, matted, framed and sold by me personally.




Images are output onto archival material using an Epson Pro Graphics printer and archival ink. Today’s highly sophisticated ink jet printers enable printing on more exotic media. These technological marvels produce prints that come close to reproducing the broad range of light and color as seen by the human eye, but that cannot normally be reproduced by film or silver halide based papers. Images are displayed matted, matted and framed, or as stretched canvas with a thin floating frame around the edge. Mats are acid free and archival.

In addition to canvas and traditional prints, some of my photographs are reproduced on tile and other hard surfaces. These fine craft pieces are made by a process called sublimation. Under heat and pressure, the image is transferred from paper onto a receptive hard surface. You will find tile in various framing options as well as coasters for sale under my art show canopy.