5 posts tagged “fine art”
I'm still working on them and TBH I really NEED a softbox for this but just quickly before I do anything more...
Which do you like best?
(I still need to clean up the background,... )
Well we've set up the exhibition today... It's a wonderful location! A real castle (not like a royal palace but it's big enough anyway ;-) ) with stables,and we got one wing of the stables for the gallery.
Tomorrow evening it will open with a walking dinner reception...
Oh and I got invited to show Cold-Farewell at another art-exhibition! ^___^
He really liked that triptych and he asked if I would like to show it... Yay!!!
I guess I have a new excuses to visit the graveyards more often again ;-P (for those among you that don't know this: they're one of my favorite subjects)
Since other artists look down on photography as fine-art I find this very important... I must admit I was a bit nervous about this, after all I know all those artists and suddenly I'm invited to join in their mids. I guess I would love their approval... and so far most of them came to my corner and said they really liked this or that piece... It's more than I've expected. (I really thought maybe one or two of them would come and say something nice and the others would ignore my work or say something very vague to be polite)
We'll see what the visitors will think of it after this weekend...
Yes! Finally!!! My fine-art photography site is finished and uploaded ^__^
It was going to be part of the PDM-site originally but after a lot of
discussions with the hubbie and my friends of the Art Gallery, I
decided it was better to keep the fine-art photography separated from
the the stock and corporate photography.
So here it is:
www.peggydemeue.com
I hope you'll like it...
Last week I got all my fine-art prints back from the printer, mounted
and well after a deadline extension of 3 workdays (they called me if
that was possible, I said ok...)
Happy as a little kid on christmasmornig I started to unpack my
prints... happy happy, joy joy...
'till I noticed something weird at the
bottom of my 3th print I opened: 3 mm of streched pixels (you know,
pixels become lines!) -> sad sad, sob sob...
Well still a lot to go so I didn't panick yet... untill I had them all
unpacked and the result was that 9 of the prints had these streched
pixels... 9 out of 18!!! -> mad mad, furiuos furious!
I took them back and she told me: "well we can't do fine mounting... and your cropmarks were missing... "
"Eh???
Well yeah, that's why we did order a test first to see if that
was a problem for you... and you stated it wasn't. And you can't cut on
the line, but you can on cropmarks??? BTW do you deliver
regular printed pannels (not fine-art) in this way???" ... crickets...
Well they redid the 9 panels but they enlarged them all so they had a
printmargin without my knowledge! What resulted in the fact that at the
longest side almost 1 cm was cut off!
I decided that I could live with that as the print quality is really gorgeous, but one of a diptich they had cut the remaining
paper at the top and the other part at the bottom, so that was the only
one they needed to remake.
Finally they're all finished!
I think I'm frustrated because I know back in the day that I printed and mounted, I wouldn't even considered to deliver these pannels! The slightest speck of dust, miscut, colourvariation,... and we knew we're going to get it back to reprint it, so we didn't deliver it, let alone mount it. I know at least 4 people has seen the prints in the process before I got them. Why did all these people think it was ok to deliver this to any client???
Anyway they look great and I can't wait to show them this weekend ^__^
May I present the first fine-art book my publishing devision has released: Artief.
It's about all artists from an art-collective called Artief.
This is a commissioned book but it's still my first release anyway ;-)
They arrived yesterday and I was very nervous 'cause it was the first time I worked together with this particular printer. I was anticipating problems as we're cursed: it seems that every time we have a new serviceprovider, the first job he does for us always goes wrong!
I had it with the digital printer for my fine-art pictures (more about that in another post) and I really was afraid for this book. That's why we set the deadline for the printer 3 weeks early so they would have time to reprint them if anything would be wrong. It seems we don't need it afterall... Would the curse be broken???
So here is a teaser... just a few spreads. The book is mainly in Dutch (not that there is much text) and costs 30 euro excl shipping.
