A few weeks ago I offered the High Hand Gallery Artists the opportunity to have their portraits taken and/or with their artwork...yup! I sure did! High Hand has a blog, so we needed photos to go along with the artists bios. So photos took place yesterday, all day long, which was also our first "Artful Sundays" at the High Hand Gallery. It was a happening place let me tell you. We also had some great keyboard music by Wayne Baxley who just happened to play with my uncle's band for over 25 years, known as the George Bruno Big Band. And if that wasn't enough, candle making classes were going on too in the back studios. I like it when they're making candles, it smells so wonderful!
I set up my lighting and backdrop panels in the back area where we wouldn't be disturbed and I could turn off the overhead lighting when I needed to. It went fairly well and I ended up taking 16 artists' photos out of 31. Not bad. At first I was taking the portraits inside, but during a break I started wandering around and found a back wall of the sheds that would be a great backdrop with natural lighting, which is what I love working with. I had searched on the drive into Loomis looking for a natural backdrop setting and there were some brick walls, but we would have to walk back down the street a couple of blocks. So the back wall turned out to be perfect!
Needless to say, I wanted to finish these up and be done with this project, so I've been working on them all day. I just finished and I think I need a hot pack on my neck. I told the artists not to expect truly professional portraits, as this is not being done in a studio (I'm landscape, remember) but that I would do my best. Hope it works out for them (and me!) Here's Unni Stevens who is an oil painter. She's extremely photogenic!
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