Leroy's Art Blog

A couple of things have come up.  First, the Philadelphia Sketch Club will have a Members Exhibition - Art Show & Sale - at the posh Newman Galleries, 1625 Walnut Street, June 6 to July 3.  I submitted my Black Boots portrait, so it will be one of the exhibited paintings!

Then, I gave several of my recent paintings - Pears, Bananas, Onions - to my sister as a housewarming gift.  She was thrilled by that and I will love seeing them in her kitchen, even though it does deplete the stock of my favorites.  That is only important in view of my other immediate plans:

On Saturday I noticed street banners for the Annual Society Hill House Tour, on May 31st.  That's a fund raiser for the local community, but it gets a big turnout.  It occurred to me that since I am living in the center of Society Hill, I could just put a couple of balloons and signs on the front steps, hang paintings in the hallway, and hold my own Art Show at the same time - an ad-hoc Solo Exhibition, if you will.  This could be my first chance to get serious about seeing if I can do some paintings that people will buy - one of my objectives, after all, is to be able to at least sell enough stuff so that my painting and classes pay their own way.

So yesterday I did an inventory of what I do have, and what I must do between now and the 31st.  Basically, I need considerably more work to hang - especially after giving those paintings to Allegra, and giving Black Boots to hang at the Newman Galleries!  Besides, I think I should have a lot of stuff in smaller sizes, in a looser style that I would be willing to sell rather inexpensively, say 6x8s and 8x10s.  If I do two a day between now and the 26th, then spend the remaining days framing and setting up, I can pull it off.  It will be a challenge, for sure!  I think I need to get serious about the Coffeehouse Paintings, real quick!

Last night I ordered a batch of post cards on the internet to publicize the Event.  They are guaranteed to arrive before the end of the week, and I sure hope they make good on the guarantee.  They should look like this:

[Well, I wanted to show you the flyer, but suddenly Blogspot doesn't want to upload pictures.  Don't know why, but so it goes.  I'll try again later.]