Real Exposure

[Stratadrake]

Some of us doodle on loose paper.
Some of us keep our drawings in sketchbooks.
Some of us prefer digital storage on the computer.

But how often do you get to go out in real life and showcase some of your works in a real public gallery?

For me, that answer is once a year, at the annual County Fair, which starts this Wednesday and runs through Saturday. I entered three of my drawings in the Art exhibition category. ^_^

Dunno if they'll get any premiums (minor prize money), seeing as how this freetime fantasy artist isn't at home in an art exhibition designed primarily for traditional (real-life based) art....

But what about you guys? Have any interesting tales to tell?
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[fallenangel]

Depends on the year and how motivated I am. Last year I did...6, I think. Of those, three were juried. Some of them have certain guidelines or require new pieces, and I don't do many of those. Also didn't apply to any colleges that would have required I make new pieces for the portfolio.

Don't suppose I have any particularly interesting stories, the events are generally pretty dull. This year I entered a total of four shows and passed on 3(?).

Regional skills competition - Events in just about any area (science, math, art, english, history, language, etc.), I entered two art categories this time. Came in second in the logo design, where you have to create a logo for next year's competition. My good friend [David] took first (and thank god, 'cause his was super cool, and mine was thrown together crap), and another person from my school took fourth, so 3 out of the top four places went to our art department.

Annual Art Department Group Show - I was a tad pissed, since up until this year it's always been the annual SENIOR group show. People looked forward to being a senior and having their work displayed, but this year everyone could enter. <_< But I still put my work in and was one of three "spotlighted" seniors, along with David and another friend of mine who does huge, freaky collage things.

Scholarship winner mini-group show - Me and David won the two art scholarships my school gives out and had a little mini show....thing. Wish there'd have been three, 'cause Isaac (collage boy) was runner up alternate. :(

I stopped doing fairs a few years ago when the trouble and risk outweighed the minimum exposure and small cash prizes. I got too many things back broken (when I still did sewing, one of my pieces was nearly destroyed before it even made it to the state fair thanks to the lovely people in charge of transporting it from the county one ). So I figured a $4 blue ribbon wasn't worth the risk of something being lost or damaged. Have a couple nifty champion ribbons left, though.

Oh, I forgot the Aurora show. Bleh. $15 entry fee, and it's in this little town full of antique shops. I suppose it can be great for sales if you have the right kind of work, but it's almost all elderly people looking for something to hang over the fireplace. Big floral paintings do real well. I skipped out on the reception dinner and never bothered to go see my stuff displayed. Just all around a crappy show.

Unless I made some big floral paintings, but my motivation to make new work for shows has been more or less established.

Group shows are fun. :wub:

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/blackleatherart/me/artshowdisplay.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/blackleatherart/me/davidart.jpg[/img]
David, a couple of his pieces behind him
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[Brianhjh]

nope, nien, never...

I don't plan to go into the art field, I fear that I might actually take art seriously if I do one of those...
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[Lizkay]

I was part of a Design Exhibition and also made and showed parts of an Art-movie, the thing is, you don't only need to put it up, you also need to represent the art you made, I opened the little exhibition with a speech based on art things and the stuff the group created.. this was the hardest part. I really don't like to attend to real "Art" exhibitions, tried it once, but in between these "Artpieces" which were mainly stripes, lines and abstract stuff... my stuff looked too "extreme" so I left it. I must add that I started to hate that kind of "real art"
I got invited to join a little gallery expo in a bank.. not sure if I will take part, I am not a fan of exhibitions at all. But at least the Design Exhbition helped me to got my final job, so I shouldn't really talk to bad about these.
I would like to go to an Art based Con, which has a real theme behind, fantasy or something like that... or a simply contest where different artist take part.. I guess I am living in the wrong state for that. <_<
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[ChrisFox]

I did a county fair once. Got four bucks, and second place, for this picture.. I put the picture I drew of Alex Grayson (in my gallery..too lazy to go get it right now) in there, too but it didn't win anything. Pfft...some kid won for a lame painting of a pumpkin or something.
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[fallenangel]

[quote] Pfft...some kid won for a lame painting of a pumpkin or something.[/quote]

I hate it when that happens. In a show a couple years ago, a girl won first place and $50 for an oil painting of a little kid at a lopsided piano with anatomical, perspective, and scale issues too many to be counted. :wacko: I attribute it to the large number of old women who volunteer to judge these things.
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[Rindi_chan]

Hmm... No galleries or exhibitions for me. I'm no professional. Although once I had a charcoal still life displayed for a month in the local Borders bookstore... It was a rather nice still life, but unfortunately, I never got it back.

I do have a somewhat related story. My hobby throughout high school was making small dragons out of colored polymer clay (you bake it in the oven and it hardens), and I'd sell them at my mother's toy store. I'd also set up a booth at the summer town festival and sell them there. It was neat to have people drop by and tell me about the dragons that they'd purchased years before. It was even better when they'd buy some more dragons to expand their collections.

I'm semi-retired now - college keeps me way too busy, so I only make dragons as presents for friends. There are a lot of good memories there though... and of course, I have my own private collection. :lol:

One of my dreams is to try selling at a real craft fair someday. Money makes me happy. :3

Examples:
[img]http://web.mit.edu/lbriggs/www/dragon_pages/images/blue_shell.jpg[/img]
[img]http://web.mit.edu/lbriggs/www/dragon_pages/images/white_winter.jpg[/img]
[img]http://web.mit.edu/lbriggs/www/dragon_pages/images/green_little.jpg[/img]

[Fayore]

o_o Argh! Those dragons are so cute. I want one; I really love dragons. :(

Anyway, I almost never have an opportunity to display my work, save for FAC. Partially because I'm relatively unaware of art events within the city, and partially because I don't consider my art good enough to be put into one of those anyway. ^^;
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[Brianhjh]

Rindi, Why don't you do commision's here?
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[DragonicFlames]

I want a dragon too. :/

Any, No I haven't... wait.. yes I have. But I lost, I wasn't even ranked. but that was a while ago.

I won a coloring contest when I was like three. I didn't get anything out of it, and scribbled out of the lines, but compaired to the rest of the pictures mine was a masterpiece. :P

Mine at least had like real colors, instead of having purple bunnies and red grass. Lol!
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[Fayore]

Colouring contests? I used to win those all the time when I was little. Can't enter those any more, though. Too old and decrepit. As for colouring, I think they look at technique and how well you use tone, etc. rather than "real colours". My purple flamingo pwns, yo.
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[celestina67]

I don't think my art's been exposed.. except if one of my friends or family members occasionally runs amok with my scrapbook of drawings in their hands and shows them to complete strangers..and that's where I get comments. Several people have been after me to teach them how to draw,along with requests and stuff..but I guess the real exposure is my non-anime work,where I draw buildings or design T-shirts. I havent got those T-shirts and drawings back eversince.

[PhunkYMunkY]

Those dragons are seriously cute. I'd buy a set... set up an area where people can view them all if you ever get into selling 'em and I'd take some off your hands

[Beatlechick90]

I entered some of my Marilyn Monroe are to be displayed in a book of Marilyn art. The person whose art is one the front cover gets a free copy of the book and $500, the person whose are is on the back get a book and $200, and the rest get a free copy of the book.
I'm not sure if my art will be seriously considered given my age, but it would be nice if I did get in. There are way too many awesome drawings I've seen (on the Marilyn forum that I entered at) to hope that I might get on one of the covers. But if one of my drawings do get published, it will be great exposure.
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[jhonenfreak]

In the last student art show I attended, I won 1st place and Best of Show for Hibiscus. The art teacher I had the previous year was there, and she liked it so much she bought if from me.

Recently my design won the Taste of Sarasota competition avalible to anyone living in Sarasota county. 2nd place was a college kid from the Ringling School of Art and Design, and 3rd place was a high schooler from the Pineview School for the Gifted. My design is going to be used for posters, entrance tickets, t-shirts, etc. I feel special. *gloat*
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[Rindi_chan]

*blinks* Whoa, I didn't expect a request for dragons out of that... Hm... Well, school always kills me during the year, but I'll have to keep this in mind. Maybe I will drag myself out of retirement. Maybe.

[Brianhjh]

I want those dragons!
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[DragonicFlames]

Those dragons are cute. I'd like a green and blue one. Maybe both of them together. ^^ anyway..
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[Maemi]

Ever since I moved to Beaufort, I've always entered an artwork to be showcased at the Beaufort Art Association Spring Exhibit. Unfortunately, this year I won't be able too. I have a full schedule (not to mention tons of homework) so I can't spare any of my time to draw. *sigh*

[UnderUnion]

One of my friends invited me to go to a fair/art thing once, but I couldn't. Had to much other stuff that had to be done.(school, job, ect.)