Maria Soto Photography Blog

Good news! I went to my second oil painting class yesterday - and I think I'm getting the hang of it now! It was a lot more enjoyable this session and I was able to put down some oil on half the painting. Last night I finished up putting the portraits I took of the High Hand Gallery artists on CD's which only took me about 40 minutes for 16 CD's. Then this morning I stopped at the gallery and dropped them off. I put them on disk mainly because I have satellite internet connection - bad scene. I would have been here for days trying to email them out. But here's something for you bloggers, I updated to Google Chrome. So I'm not very computer literate when it comes to figuring out programs. I downloaded it, but shouldn't it come up by itself for the blog? It didn't. There is a shortcut on the bottom menu bar and that's how I was able to get into my blog. I tried my normal way of getting to the internet to my website blog, and '...my browser no longer supports my blog.' So as long as I went to the Google Chrome shortcut I could get to my website, then my blog. Why did I ever click the update button for Google Chrome? I spoke with two of my fellow gallery artists when I was there, and they were commenting on my new Venice images and thought that my prices weren't high enough. That's funny that they brought it up, because I was just thinking that to myself recently. I do put a lot of work into taking the image in the first place, developing or uploading, printing it just so on fine art paper or developing them in the darkroom on fiber based paper, cutting my own archival mats, replacing the glass with non-glare glass, and framing them in a professional way with the proper backing and wire. So that is a lot of work, time, effort, expertise, etc.! You don't have to sell me on this subject! ;)