Blue Moon Gallery Show "Collectively Speaking"

Picked up the cards for the Blue Moon Gallery show scheduled for Second Saturday, August 11th.  I did a mailing of which I haven't done for a while - well, I haven't had a show for a while so there you have it!  Got those in the mail yesterday.

Worked on more images and making a selection of which ones I was going to have enlarged for the canvas gallery wraps!  I ended up going with two more images from Venice.  Two at 36x24 - had to be 3' in one direction.  I'm hoping I can also hang my two smaller ones with these two larger ones for the Artstock Show - Large Format at the High Hand Gallery in September and October.  Now that I have the wraps ordered I can get back in the darkroom.

I also finished the mask for the Artstock show.  This year several artists have given classes for making masks.  Don't know why or how I got finagled into that, but I did.  I made a Samurai mask.  All the masks that the High Hand Gallery artists made will be on sale during Artstock (inside the gallery) and 50% of the proceeds will go to the gallery to help pay for future events.  At first I was just going to submit the mask all by itself, but after seeing some of the other masks made by the other artists, I needed to kick it up a notch! I ended up framing it by mounting it with screws onto the backboard after covering the backboard with handmade paper.  Then looking up the Japanese writing for "Samurai Warrior" and writing that out and adding that as part of the image.  What you can't see is the black frame around it.

Now I'm off to the darkroom to improve some of the previous images I've already printed out.  I think my self-imposed deadline of getting all 11 rolls of film developed 'this summer' was overly rambunctious (for lack of a better word)!  I mean, it takes some well-known photographers a good week just to get one image perfected!!  With that said, I'm going to take my time to perfect my images.