Sunday May 24 – Artomatic Installation

Robin and I completely installed my display for Artomatic yesterday  – I had previously painted the wall, but we needed to hang the art, put my sign up, install and properly wire the lighting, and set up a table with postcards and a comment book.  We were there more than a few hours, but i forgot to check the time!  This was the last weekend before opening and people discussing last year’s event made it sound like it would get pretty crazy with a long queue for the freight elevator, but it wasn’t bad at all.  I guess the real bad day will be for people who are waiting to install until tomorrow (the last day).

Here is Robin contemplating picture alignment:

Here’s me re-considering picture alignment:

Here’s the final result:

The plywood walls are set up in sort of a shallow zigzag configuration – you can see an interesting painting by Michael Torra to the right.  In the left background, another artist paints his wall.  Because some of my art is dark and behind glass, it’s hard to see it at certain angles, but it shows up okay if you’re there in person. It was a lot of work but satisfying.  I’ll be back there again next week for my first volunteer shift.

Artomatic Space

I did manage to get a space in Artomatic this year, and got to pick a space on the “overflow” day about a week ago, here’s my space:

This saturday I went and painted it – it was a good day (unlike how the next two weekends will be) because there was no ballgame, so easy parking all over!  A very easy building to get to via subway, right over the Navy Yard station, but I’m not bringing my art via subway.  I’m jealous of anyone who could finish this weekend, but my art isn’t framed yet.

Wall in progress:

Pretty full of knotholes, which I filled with wood filler.  Hopefully the filler will stay in place for a month since it didn’t seem to be completely dry when I painted over it.  I also ran out of primer, and painted over it immediately, the finished wall looked good wet, though I’m not sure it would withstand close scrutiny:

Teeny Tiny Snake

Here’s a tiny snake I found in the yard, wanted to post picture: