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<\/p>\nI had all these thoughts and recollections coming out of a landmark Band Festival weekend, but once things got rolling in the studio on Monday, I didn\u2019t take time to write them down. Plus, I\u2019m always prepared to devote some of my blogging time to a new Paul Watkins novel, and I\u2019ve started reading The Promise of Light,<\/em> thanks to a Kentucky Interlibrary Loan (KILL\u2014how\u2019s that for an acronym?). Well, I\u2019ll give it a try anyway…<\/p>\n • WineFest<\/strong> • Aborted Study<\/strong> • Poster Signing<\/strong> part one I had all these thoughts and recollections coming out of a landmark Band Festival weekend, but once things got rolling in the studio on Monday, I didn\u2019t take time to write them down. Plus, I\u2019m always prepared to devote some of my blogging time to a new Paul Watkins novel, and I\u2019ve started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,17,26,18,42,8,36,37,14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor the first time, the Festival sponsored an event that gathered representatives from nine Kentucky wineries on the grounds of the historic Old Crow Inn, and 300 people showed up. Chateau du Vieux Corbeau,<\/em> the local host winery, produced a limited bottling of red and white wines which featured my artwork for the Festival poster. I was on hand Thursday evening to help promote sales that will benefit the Festival, and I was surprised at how many buyers wanted me to sign labels. It was fun, but nobody offered me a bottle to take home. In any case, it\u2019s as close as I\u2019ve ever come to designing a wine label, one of my unmet goals as a graphic artist.<\/p>\n
\nAnticipating my appearance at the Community Arts Center on Friday night, I had this idea that I would complete a preliminary study for Spellbound<\/em> that I started last November but never finished. It served it\u2019s purpose back then, and I proceeded with what turned out to be the final version after the first of the year. It seemed like a good idea to finish the study and make it available for a convenient sale, but once I got involved in it, I realized that the magic was long gone. I may finish it anyway some time, just for the practice, but learned the lesson again that monetary motivations don\u2019t have the power to bring my muse to life. <\/p>\n
\nThe Maple Tree Gallery completed the framing of my original painting, and Lee helped me get it down to the Arts Center before I dashed home to get ready for the Gallery Hop. Pat L was there to assist, and I ended up signing about half the edition of 75, and about half of those sold that same night. Patti and Vince stopped by to inspect the original, which had a well-lighted spot near the entrance. I couldn\u2019t read their reaction to my purchase price (or didn\u2019t really try to, actually). Clearly they\u2019re the best candidates for ownership, and their interior decorator told me later I shouldn\u2019t consider reducing the price, but I still wonder if anyone will be willing to pay what I think it\u2019s worth. We\u2019ll see. Dana remains optimistic, but I probably should give some thought to where I\u2019ll temporarily hang it in the studio. I was delighted when Joan stopped by, and she took some pictures for Mombo. It was my moment of glory, and, as expected, the evening passed by much too quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"