Val Gal

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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.