Thieves Market 09: I’m Baaaack.
So the event went pretty well. The first couple of hours things sold fast and furious. Had it maintained that pace it would have been excellent. But alas, no. It was still considerably better than Waterloo though.
The event had around 100 artists this year. And we painters had a good showing which was nice to see. The event doesn’t offer up what everybody does so I can’t really give you a breakdown on how many painters or potters or jewelers there were. If I were to guess I’d say there was about 20 2D wall artists of various mediums.
Also I did have two other painters within 3 booth of mine. Both selling reasonably priced original work. One hadn’t sold anything as of mid afternoon Sunday a few hours before close of show. (Note: she usually does a high volume of sales. So this is extremely rare.) The other did well as I seen a couple of her originals go.
I mostly sold notecards and $25 open edition mini prints. But I sold enough of them to be contented.
Not much new in regards to information about the event. You can check last years post on the Thieves Market for the art fair breakdown.
Thanks to everybody who came out and said “hi.” My rehabilitation is almost complete. I have almost no “weirded out” sensations at all, when I meet someone who says they read my blog. Almost.
Coming Up
While at the event I created my Christmas Card image for this year and will post it next. I’ll also talk a little about some new art materials I tried out. And lastly I’m going to begin a new horse portrait (as it is for Xmas gift) so I must set Big Al aside for a couple weeks.
Note: The reason the booth looks a little wonky at the back is because it was open in the center so people could walk through to the back side where I was sitting. My location allowed for thi which it usually doesn’t. For the most part when viewed from straight on it looked like a solid booth wall.
Tags: artfairs
I am glad it was good for you. Strange about the painter who usually sells well — shows can be fickle like that, I guess? Glad you are back safe — did you run into much snow? Looking forward to seeing your card. I just finished mine — took a little longer than I expected.
Post Script Question: How big is a mini print?
We hit a little snow on the way home. The weather didn’t turn ugly until after we were back. We had snow and high winds last night and it’s 5pm now and we still haven’t left the farm yet today. I had our critter sitter run in and feed Budda.
They small prints (at the moment referred to as posters on the website, but plan to change that soon) vary in image size but they matt out to be 11 x 14.
So I showed you mine, (Um . . . as in Xmas card) let’s see yours.