Val Gal

December 25, 2015 Concentrating on Organizing Since we are experiencing a downturn for the company in regards to profits it might be a good time to organize.  I am taking inspiration from the city. Since Montreal has less people coming in since business is quiet the city is taking advantage to do much needed repairs.  And so Art Fabian Company is going through major improvements in the filing system.  There will be the ongoing work online but also we have new files and the whole paper system is being redone. The company policy of depapering continues as it has been proceeding in the autumn quarterly. We are keeping only Art produced by Art Company itself.  All of the other Art Fabian Collections are going. It is with much regret we have had to get rid of some excellent work by other artists.  Luckily we have been scanning the work so we have an online record of the work.  We are in the process of finding out which system works best with regards to ...

Superstitious?  What kind of rituals do you follow for good luck?  For myself, I like to take advantage of special times to see if I can reap good fortune.  For example, if I have something important to organize I am likely to do it on a Holiday or on Sunday. So planning this week's Studio work was a no brainer.  I had recently received a large amount of old jewelry from an estate. The choicer pieces had long gone and these were left.  They were supposed to be unsellable.  So I asked how they were organized. I said if you give almost them to me, I will organize them for you in the proper way.  But I was given them instead. The owner felt they were just cluttering up the house.  Luckily I have my jewelry collection. To get them they had to be quickly boxed and taken off the premises.  But once I brought them home, there was no time to organize them anymore because of the Holiday Preparations.  So this Saturday I took some time to c...

Hello dear Readers, Coping with Holiday Frenzy What do you to pamper yourself when the Holiday frenzy starts ? I went for a long walk to pick up some containers for my external hard drives.  You see I am into organizing and I want to have all my files easily accessible by the time the Holiday season is over.  As luck would have it by the time I was half way back to the metro I felt really tired.  Luckily there was a good restaurant, Nickels right at the corner.  I did the unthinkable.  Instead of getting some nuts and a drink from the grocery store I regaled myself on a French onion soup before I hit the metro.  It tasted so good I didn't even think it was expensive.  At the holiday season I always get tired in transit so I put away a little extra cash for food. It makes it a lot nicer. Saturday Studio Work: Speaking of the Holidays I am doing a lot of celebrating.  This week the Rose Studio is open to Art Fabi...

It didn't look like I would be able to do it on time.  But I got all the work hung for the Holiday Season Exhibit and the Holiday Season Ornaments all done as well.  To celebrate I thought I would lead my online friends like you on a tour of the Val Gal as it looks today. The film starts a little bit too dark but don't worry.  As you go down the corridor with me you will be able to see more clearly how Val Gal is decorated for this magical time. Whew! That's done.  And now I can get on with the rest of the preparations.  There is still a lot of work to be done with the Gift Atelier and the Art Fabian Company Bazaar for Patrons and Friends. Its nice to  be able to work in a place that fits the fun and the work that I have at this season. So I invite you to sit down and take a visit to the Val Gal with the video below:

Hello Dear Friends, The Holiday Season Approaches.  And there is much to do in Val Gal  Valuable Gallery). And despite having a little bit of trouble getting this video online (and the lightbulb glowing on the right ear) stuff is getting done. We have a Gift Atelier Bazaar for company friends and patrons.  We have a new Magic Space Exhibit specially for the Holidays.  And there has been an exciting discovery of some lost Kathy Fabian Artwork recently.  Lots of new drawings and paintings are coming in to Val Gal and have to be properly stored. Val Gal is really anxious to give as many presents as possible to company patrons and friends so if you want to have a gift from the Atelier Bazaar, please send the reason why you should have one and your email address to kfabian.kathynotes@gmail.com or post it at www.facebook.com/theartfabiancompany. And by the way, why don't you tell us what your favorite drink for the holidays is.  (One of mine i...

Hello Dear Reader, How are you today?  What are you doing to prepare for the Festive Season?  Have you gotten your signature haircut?  Or a new jacket perhaps?  Perhaps you have gone for a relaxing and beautifying spa treatment.  Why don't you tell the world what you did at www.facebook.com/theartfabiancompany ? Be sure to write down the name of the specialist you went to and how to reach them to book an appointment. At Art Fabian Co. excitement mounts as the Holiday Season approaches. This is a very busy time for Art Fabian Co. and I start preparations with a wicked new Haircut from the prize winning Oblic Salon Urbain Spa . (and maybe a little too dark lipstick but I am not sure). Also,  I am creating  a Creative Muses Collection just for Holiday Season 2015 and  there is new stuff arriving everyday to give out at the Val Gal  Holiday Season Give-Away.  K.V. talks about them in this film. You will be noticing that s...

Hello Dear Reader, How have you started your holiday season preparations?  Have you taken any official self-portraits to upgrade the prices of your art online?  Check out what I am doing with this video.  And tell me your news on www.facebook.com/theartfabiancompany. Cheers. Have a great day. Kathy Fabian Principal Artist Art Fabian Company

Good day Dear Reader, How are you this bright and cold Saturday?  I find myself at home with a good solid cold.  Thats okay because I have taken advantage to use the time at home and buy all the stuff that I need for the medical cabinet.  I have everything up to date and I am chock full of cough drops, cough syrup, decongestitants and pain killers.  A brand new humidifier is now mine as well.  I remember when I was a child my mother put one in my room. The humidity was supposed to help unstuff the nose. Anyways all this resting has resulted in myself being bright and bushy tailed in the middle of the night.  Like an old friend, I go to the computer and catch up on my writing. But enough of myself, let me tell you about my new Autoportrait.  You can see it at: https://www.facebook.com/ArtFabianFineArtPhotographs/photos/a.273822086128660.1073741825.273817616129107/498789763631890/?type=3&theater Invite me into your home without too much tro...

On Saturday and Friday I went down to the thrift shops to look for ideas for Holiday Season decorations.  I had a large amount of really fine stuff right in my hands when all of a sudden I took a clear look at my financial position.  Gingerly I put the stuff back and started thinking how to keep the costs down for Holiday Season spending this year. I came up with an idea to rely as much as possible on material that I print out from my machine. Cutting the work load also results in less spending.  So this year I am not going to do a special Holiday Seasons Exhibition. Instead I am going to start the winter exhibit a couple of weeks before the Holiday Season starts. At the same time I will be including hand made ornaments to decorate the images.  These images will be composed of store Christmas ornaments mixed with my art work. This is the idea I came up with so Saturday studio time was spent getting the Winter Art out of storage and looking for old card images t...

On Line: For this quarterly I am going to be listening to two kinds of learning material: podcasts and videos.  I like to do this while I am doing routine work like filing.  Since I am doing a lot of filing I will be doing a lot of listening. I am going to keep the informative emails down to a minimum and emphasize websites and mostly youtube subscriptions.  that is the most convenient.  When I have the time I can just go to one site. Also I will continue glancing at my ipod podcasts to see what's new. One thing the emails are good for are notifying me of webinars.  If and when there is an intersting subject I will take one or two from time to time.  I like the webinars that are live but also recorded as well. I also want to start looking at other artists websites to see what they are doing and how much they charge.  I will be looking at the top artists as well as those who might be directly competitive with myself. I have finished my Lean St...

Hello Dear Readers, This Saturday I decided to do charting.  I had been contacting the support team at Google for a problem about my balance.  I wanted to use my balance on Google Play to pay for a membership with Gliffy flow charts or Mindmeister Mind Maps.  It turned out you need to pay for Gliffy only with a credit card.  And Mindmaster could be bought with the Google Chrome store.  The Google Play store was a different kettle of fish.  I had put on $100.00 on Google play and I could not transfer it in any way to use for either of these mapping programs. I must have been on the phone for five hours trying to figure out how to pay with the Google Play points.  One hundred dollars is a lot of money and I had it budgeted for the mind mapping.  I did not want to buy anything else, no matter how seductive.  Anyways finally I realized they have a  whole lot of gift cards you can buy with the points so the money will be used and on budge...

I got up good and early this Saturday to do the studio work.  My mind was clear and I was ready to roll.  I had been having trouble with buying a new program for charting on Google Play.  Since Google support was busy for a while I figured calling on Saturday might get me someone to speak to.  I mean there are only technicians and fools working on Saturday morning nine o'clock.  Once that was done, I would really go for some devastating beautiful photo-montages. So I got the technical support on line.  And then I was transferred to someone else.  And then they had to check out the protocol.  And by the time the whole thing was solved the morning was gone.  Well, it wasn't solved but I would speak to the tech next week (it was the weekend).  So the morning flew by and I had some errands to do and by the time I got to do some studio work it was night time. Actually that in itself wasn't bad.  Saturday night is a magic night and I ...

 Autumn Quarterly:2015. Production By Kathy Fabian, C.E.O. and Principal Artist The first and Foremost goal of all Art Fabian Company work to to achieve financial success. Blogging My writing will focus on Money making projects such as ValGal and my Google Page My Clothes Right Now for Sale. I will continue my schedule of writing for a different blog each day.  I am trying to keep one month a head for blog posts.  Meanwhile if I find a better place to do something then I will leave the old site intact to leave a virtual footprint. I will slow down writing actual articles and concentrating on improving the presentation for the blogs. Each blog should have an example of art on it for sale.  I will focus only on stuff I feel that I really want to write about or on money making projects.  I will just polish up stuff that highlights just my creative work. I have a lot of blog articles now so they are actually not my main priority.  Organizing pro...

Hello Dear Readers, A Little Background about Me: I was part of the New Renaissance.   In the historical Renaissance period world travel was considered part of any elegant young gentleman's education.  A couple of years ago I encountered a subculture of men and women dressed in clothes that would make them fit in from work to a party and the night life beyond.  The clothes also were international.  You could wear them in any culture.  As luck would have it, I sometimes accompanied these men and women in their world travels and got to experience the culture of many lands. Thus I am influenced by many cultures when I create my art.  Right now I have some Ambient music on and am watching a tropical underwater scene.  Saturday it was Indian spiritual music.   Studio Work on Saturday. The more public Corridor Gallery was finished.  This year the proper nameplates and my business card were all in the right place.  So I took a b...

Happy Thanksgiving to All! I hope you enjoyed your day and will look forward to many things to give thanks for until the next Thanksgiving. Get the exquisite image on this blog post.  Custom Made!   You Deserve the Luxury. And you support the Artist. Write  kfabian.kathynotes@gmail.com   for inquiries.    The leaves are brightly colored outside.  And the days sunny. So I went into my archives to find some images with splendid autumn foliage.  Saturday I reserved for studio work .  I had been tidying up my collection of muses and had a few lovely ladies ready to star in my photographic extravaganzas.  The final element was the inclusion of the very expensive, very evident presence of construction in the neighborhood. I had a lot of autumn pictures but I wanted to showcase technology and machines.  As luck would have it we were having some road repair done right outside our house.  And voila I had the tree el...

So the first week of setting up the exhibition did not make the deadline.   It was supposed to be all done on Saturday and I was putting the finishing touches to the frame on the Friday afterwards.  Obviously I had bitten off more than I could chew. They say if your task takes too much time then divide your task into smaller tasks. Val Gal exhibitions are actually two in one.  There is the real world exhibition that takes place on the Second floor of our residence.  This is not open to the public. But I hope to gain fame and resources from the Second Exhibition of Val Gal.  I regularly record the Exhibitions on line. Artformillionaires.blogspot.ca  is a blog that gives you a selection of slideshows of the various exhibitions that happened in Val Gal. treasuregallery.blogspot.ca  will spotlight different works in the Art Fabian co. Collections. It is with these blogsites that I hope to gain  public attention and much needed support and advic...

Studio work is planned for Saturdays.  Thats when I create collages, or videos, or digitally worked images.  Framing stuff is for this day too. Of course, I work on Val Gal on Saturdays.  If a photograph is not strong enough in the exhibit it will be Saturday when I sort it out of the machine. But to do this stuff sometimes take preparation.  Whether or not I do preparatory work during the week depends how busy it is.  Or how impatient I am to get things done. Lets take an example.  I have been mounting the new exhibition since the beginning of September. Since the first day of the season is usually around the twentieth of the month , this gives me three weeks to hang.  I do everything solo so I have to  make choices.  I figure if the public Corridor gallery is hung up and ready I am on schedule.  The Rose Studio Gallery is open only to serious buyers and to those who I take on a Gallery Tour.  All this to say there were ten work...

Saturday I spent my studio time filming the exhibition pieces for the new Autumn Leaves: New City 15 exhibition.  It was actually supposed to take place opening day but the camera broke so I postponed it for this week.  Saturday I just filmed the pieces because I thought I would leave the publicity stills for the Sunday.  that would give me the time to check out all the adjustments that I would need to make when I posed for the camera. As luck would have it, however, we were having some really good filming weather.  And the last day that would be clear would be Sunday.  So I figured I would take advantage and film outside.  I wanted some poses of myself in the newly redone Lahaie park right next to our residence. I would postpone the pictures of myself with the art work for the following week. I waited for the best light of the day which I understood was two hours after sunrise or, more appropriately for my habits, two hours before sunset.  around ...

Saturday is Studio work day.  Since I had not done any photographing the opening last week, I started with the idea to film the work that is presently on display in Val Gal.  I had a brand new Optex PRT50 Summit Tripod to try out first.  The tripod was bought last Monday but I wanted to read the instructions and assemble it without breaking anything. So it stood carefully placed in its box in a corner of Rose Room.  Saturday morning was the first time I could bring myself to even attempt it.  I opened the box carefully and found no instructions.  A search on line to register the tripod bore no fruit.  the best I could was find it listed in the store products and sign up for the eletters on the store.  It said on the box, in big letters, five year guarantee, so I suppose I have to keep the store receipt.  There is no other proof of purchase. That done I figured that I would just have to go by instinct and what I had learned to do with the ot...

Finances There has been two major shifts in the way Val Gal has been handling her affairs. Online Kathy Fabian has been slowly going through the blogs she has written and modifying the prices.  At the beginning of the Online and real world galleries the art work had a ticket price of $100,000.00.  This was to attract a wealthy clientele and also to establish Art Fabian Co. as a top notch creator of art and art collections:  or at least stimulate conversation about the prices offered for Val Gal work. The summer quarter has ushered in a new philosophy for Val Gal. Gone are elite prices and instead we have a very affordable range of prices that go from $120 to $500.00 for an art work depending on whether they are in or out of the Exhibition Collections. Art work that is currently part of the actual Val Gal four season exhibits have the price of $500.00.  Prints on line are $120.00 each. Until sales improve, Art Fabian Co. executives have decided, to work on ref...

Taken from Facebook: What a day! Well Happy Autumn to all. And to celebrate I have a brand new Collection of Art at Val Gal . The name in English did not translate to French well so I had to change it. It is now Autumn Leaves: New City. In Autumn Mother earth prepares us for the colder days by displaying on a whole different color. The world is full of rust and orange and scarlet red leaves.And right near us the city is preparing for the winter by doing construction work on the roads. And th ats the subject of the exposition: Autumn leaves and New projects for the city. The ladies of our residence had many compliments for the new exhibition. There was much talk of my going to display in a gallery outside the house. But I have been told the first thing to get is a good solid lawyer. Otherwise, the credit for my work can be taken away quite easily. For the opening I wore my brand new outfit from Addition Elle including the seasonal coupe de grace: a burgundy faux leather jacket...

Yesterday was the first day of autumn and the opening of the Art Fabian Co. Autumn exhibit in Val Gal. It is called Autumn Leaves: New City 2015. Why the title? In autumn nature changes here mantle of green to one or red and rust and gold.  At the same time the city starts really cleaning up the roads and working on repairing buildings.  It is much less expensive to build when the weather is good then when the bitter winter months set in. So it a new season of brilliant colors and a newly repaired city.  Hence the name Autumn Leaves: New City 2015.

I found it hard to find a name for the Gallery.  The first name was the Inside Gallery because the Gallery is open only to those who have access to the site already.  My idea was to encourage people to try to bridge the gap.  To try to gain access into the second floor of this severe residence.  I thought this could be done by working with the order that runs the place and supporting their work and their mission.  In this way, I could have the support of the establishment and relative freedom to create Val Gal. But as time went on I had not much interest shown in the Inside Gallery. I thought, perhaps no one really wants to go inside. I mean why bother? I had several shows with the name Precious to underline the idea that art is important and valuable to everyday life. If we do not have art, we have reality only.  And we cannot step out of the  shackles of the grim or the poor.  With art we have a glimpse into the beautiful. Hence Precious. Al...

September 9, 2015 In the romantic novels the artist goes way up to his tiny attic on the very top of his house to create and be free.  Sometimes it has a great view of Paris.  Or sometimes the person is a writer who creates great novels and ideas. They both seal themselves from the rest of the world to do great things.  Well why not imitate?   I live in a woman's residence in a very small room. When I first arrived I imagined it as a womb.  A creative womb in which I would heal and rest and create great art.  I would sit on the bed cross yoga position with hands on my legs and look out the window and the blue sky. I would imagine I meditated.   I would imagine I was one with the blue sky. Well years have gone by and I no longer think of the room as a womb.  It became a small and impoverished cell for a while and then my imagination took over again.  I thought of it much like that attic. So now it is my studio in which I develop and fr...