once a month sounds about right

It looks like once a month is about right - I can't see that I will be able to get around to this more often. My busiest times at work are at the end of the month and the beginning of the month, as we take down shows, patch and paint and install new shows and host receptions. Then I get a little time where I am doing Texas Artists Coalition workshops and babysitting life-drawing, then working on the FWCAC website and writing the FWCAC eletter and the TAC eletter. Booking models, handling art clients, the occasional sale and invoicing takes up most of the rest of my work time. A few meetings here and there, returning phone calls and emails and there goes my month; I'm done. I usually get to eat lunch at my desk, but a couple of times a year I either get treated by a friend or a client or splurge on fast-food. Ooo, wow. Receptions are a lot of work but fun, too, as I see a lot of friends and art buddies. We had about 2000 come though for Fall Gallery Night Sept 8. I missed the last FWADA meeting (Fort Worth Art Dealers Association) because I actually took some vacation time off last week. Therefore, I don't know how other galleries did as far as attendance and sales. It seemed down to me.

I did get some artwork done on my vacation - one small new piece; charcoal on paper. 45th in the series, I think. I had finished a larger piece and another small charcoal on paper at the end of August. That always feels good. I got some nice compliments on the work that is in the latest Art in the Metroplex show. I did cringe when the juror (Michael Duncan) mentioned (just briefly) the word target, but he quickly went on to talk about the repetition and precision and I could tell he "got it" when he showed other work it referenced for him. I was appalled at my slide, though - it looked dingy and yellow and had lint on the slide - I wasn't sure if it was my slide or the projector, but most others' works looked OK. I hate doing slides. At least with digital I can check the color balance and make sure it looks OK. This may be the last show I ever enter with slides. Come to think of it though, it was cropped, so I bet it was scanned poorly. That makes me feel a little better. And I do really like slides a lot of the time,but it's easy for them to get screwed up.

I loaded some of my artwork on Flikr or whatever that is - I'm not savvy about all this stuff. But, at least I got some artwork out there. I've got to figure out how to find it again - too many usernames, too many passwords, argh! I also started a myspace page for the TAC. It's at www.myspace.com/texasartistscoalition - it is not going to be hugely comprehensive or anything. People just send me stuff to post in between eletters, so I feel like I need somewhere to post them. The FWCAC website is way too stodgy and we don't have the bucks for a TAC website - we're a non-profit, remember.

It's a studio day tomorrow, so I'm able to stay up a bit late and write this, but if I expect to get anything done I better get finished. I wish I had time to write more about all sorts of things, but they'll just have to wait, or never get written because by then I'll have forgotten or have different things to say. Oh, well.