This weekend was the annual Valley Artists Studio Tour (VAST), wherein about two dozen artists open our studios to visitors for two days in hopes that a steady stream of people will come through and each of them will happily depart with a painting. Twenty or so very nice folks looked at my original works and some opted for small prints. They’ve been exposed to my work and may return someday to own a Gertenbach original.
My website maestro presented me with his vision of how things should ideally be for my studio tour. Maybe next year.
However, there’s a silver lining to the VAST event. I always hire someone to help me sort, clean, and reorganize my studio before the tour. For many days, weeks, and sometimes months
thereafter I know exactly where everything is and am, therefore, far more productive as I contentedly work there. The studio always seems bigger for a while, more floor space, less random order. Painting beautiful oils is my passion and this passion overrides striving daily to defeat that worked-in look where some things are out of their appointed places with a few paintings leaning against the walls awaiting frames. With everything looking so perfect, perhaps I’ll turn on some good music in the studio, pull up a chair and enjoy the ambiance.
Now if there were only an event that would create an immediate need to totally organize the myriad art related images that are in folders all over my internal and external hard drives.
To view my paintings, find out about workshops I conduct, and learn about upcoming shows I’ll be exhibiting in, I invite you to visit my website lynngertenbachart.com
