The Cat, The Proof, and The Party
Wizzy rolled me up out of bed half an hour before the alarm. It's ok, it's much nicer to wake up to The Wiz than an alarm any day, no worries there!
Rolled into Taos early and the proofs were great! The only one that presented difficulty was
Amsterdam—not because the studio goofed up—their work was impeccable and truly top-of-the-line—but because of the technique I used to paint it (I actually didn’t think it would reproduce well)—it just does not translate with photography. It’s one of those things that you have to be there for, along with the lights and the physical viewing angles. Still, we’ll do a couple small prints since we’ve already got the expensive part done. It doesn’t look bad, it just doesn’t have the wowie, zowie that the original does.
It would have been better to take in Painted Desert, as that one’s sister painting La Escalera de los Animos came out regally (as did Taos Church), but now we know the sorts of things that reproduce well and those that do not. You know, it’s that expensive ‘empirical education’ thing again. In any case I could not be happier with the other five proofs and am really looking forward to the prints, due to be finished by Wednesday or Thursday.
I got a nice compliment by the owner and staff of the studio. They are the premier Southwest Giclée studio so you know how many renditions of the mission church at Ranchos de Taos they’ve seen. Not only did they indicate they’ve seen more versions than are actually countable (I have an entire published book on artists who’ve rendered the image in one media or another)—they said they liked mine the best and that my work was truly fun to shoot. Now that has got to be about the best compliment a person could get. (I think they might have actually meant it because everyone there told me that in their own little aside.)
Then we brought the paintings back home to Truchas, had business down in Espanola, spent hours in Santa Fe—mostly related to the opening reception tomorrow.
So tomorrow. There will be moving of paintings. There will be more making of painting labels, There will be floor scrubbing (like, when is there not?) and there will be preparation of all the snack-y things for the table. OK, grapes are easy, but there’s brie and baguette (Must Be Cut) and apples (MBC) and summer sausage and cheese (MBC) and I forget what else. There will be wet paintings to put away and protect (isn’t that an oxymoron?—no! I’m a moron to think I can protect a wet painting ;- /)
I must mention—we finally made the weekly arts section in the Santa Fe paper, Pasatiempo, this week; we made the Taos weekly arts section again, Tempo; AND we made Santa Fe’s monthly arts magazine THE. We also made the Rio Grand Sun Arts again this week so if anyone is reading the papers we should definitely have some reception-attendees tomorrow!
Tomorrow will be both a busy and a big day. Can’t gurarantee you’ll hear from us again until Mother's Day (please DO remember to call your mother on Sunday!) But you can, of course, expect a recap of our little event.
Cheers. And thanks for reading.
Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-05-12)
Your on a rolll! Good luck with the opening! CHEERS! - And Happy Mother's Day! >^.^
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