Gallery Meeting

The meeting at Art Prostititute went well. Mark, the owner, is good people. I was glad I brought my comics, because the paintings didn't really catch much attention. Painting represents a pretty small portion of my art. I've done maybe 20-25 paintings in my life and of them, maybe 5 really mean something to me. I took several of those, and it was really the first time since college that someone looked at them with a professional eye. He pointed out some things to work on, but the more we talked the more it became clear that illustration is what I really love and the conversation went that way. I brought several pages from my Misprecision project and those were a hit. That project gets the strongest reaction out of anything I've ever done.

Mark digs comics illustration too and has featured several cartoonists in Art Prostitute's magazine. He gave me some local contacts to reach out to, and pointed me towards some other illustrators he thinks I should contact, and he invited me to stay in touch and keep bringing new work over to the gallery. Good stuff. I suspect there will be more to this story.

Other...
My work for the Dallas School district last weekend went well and I had several requests for teaching and freelance art. It's got me thinking about doing some private lessons. I like to teach and would enjoy designing and presenting something like say... a one-time two hour course aimed at giving novices a leg up and some confidence on making art. Not sure I'd enjoy teaching someone over and over, but I know that I could create and delivery a one-shot course that people would really enjoy and would get some skills out of. That's a good service.

I'll keep turning that one over in my head.