Now I am getting geared up for my first warm season outdoor art festival, our Tiffin Art Guild's "Masterpiece In The Making" even on Saturday, June 20 on a tree-shaded lawn over at Heidelberg University. (They just changed the name from 'College' to University, after 150 years.) I did not enter last year because I got roped into doing a painted cowboy hat for the organization and the Farm Bureau. This season I intend to sell some paintings.

I am going to show some of my decent-size work under the ten by ten foot canopy that I will rent. But the way I intend to sell some work is by doing volume! I am painting dozens of little canvases, from 8" x 10" up to 9" x 12" and maybe a few 11" x 14" ones. All of them will be in the "dry brush" style of the "Alban Landscape" and "Toward gavi" paintings on my web sites ART FOR SALE page.

(https://www.jondude.com/artforsale.htm)

I plan to price these unframed works to "move." The smallest will probably be set at $65 and the large (11 x 14) at $95.00. Each will be a legitimate painting, complete with hanging wires and eye screws on the back and a certificate of authenticity. My goal is to have around 24 of them done by set-up time on Friday night, June 19.

At last night's Art Guild meeting I mentioned my plan and a lady said that I was "selling out."

She was damn right! I intend to sell them all! (LOL)

I have four little canvases started. I will probably work on three or four at a time, which is what I do anyway, no matter the size. I recently discovered that Big Lots has good stretched canvases very cheap. I have plenty of colors, and the studio is cleaned for action.

Call it the "short story" version of visual arts.