far studio gallery

I have spent the past few months preparing for the Sierra Art Trails, a weekend in the Oakhurst area where artists open their studios and demonstrate their artistic talents. Art lovers buy a guide book with maps to all the studios and show places and then tour the arts. This annual event occurs around the first weekend in October.

Since most of my photography is virtual and just stored as bits and bites on a computer, I had a lot of work printing and framing enough photographs as to give a good representation of my art. I concentrated on the photos that I thought might have the most universal appeal, hoping that someone might actually buy my art. After all, art can be a very expensive hobby.

Showing Off

I and two other artists were going to show our art at the local historical park. Two weeks before the Art Trails weekend and long after the map book was published, I found out that they had booked a “Ghost Hunting” parapsychology group for that Saturday and we could not be at the site for that day. Fortunately, the Yosemite Western Artists group offered me the use of Gertrude School – their meeting area – to use for our show. Gertrude School is a one-room schoolhouse built in the late 1880s. It is used as an art studio by YWA and they have live models pose there every Friday for the artists to portray. Many of my best portraits were taken at Gertrude School. Best of all, it is only a few miles from my home. So I was very glad to move my show to Gertrude School.

Of course, it meant we were no longer on the guidebook maps and we were off the main area, but it was better than cancelling out after all the work I had put into the show.

Here are a few of the animal photos I showed for the Sierra Art Trails.

Dogs

Welsh Springer Spaniel

Beau

Happy

Here’s a photo that won a local Pet Photography contest… where I got a chance to photography the “Happy” photo:

The Beagle

Not a Dog

Jack the Cat

Encampment Horse

Peekaboo

I’ll talk more about the Sierra Art Trails in my next post, so see you then!