My Art Exhibition last weekend

[Romain / rXg]

Gert it sounds cool , :)
Shame i couldn t  come this week end ...

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> This weekend I had my art exhibition (together with 65 other
> artists over the whole town).
>
> I can honestly say I am very pleased with the results. All in all
> I had about 100 visitors. Most of them were very interested and
> enthusiastic about my digital paintings. Many of them wanted to
> know how I worked, and asked questions about my technique, my
> tools, the software, the computers, etc. They complimented my art
> with stuff like "farytale beauty" and "I'm sure we're going to
> hear a lot from you in the future". The worst thing I heard in
> those two days was, "It's not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate
> this is rather original stuff." The funniest thing I saw was a
> guy sheepishly putting his head around the door, taking a peek in
> the room, and quickly disappearing again ;-)
>
> Business wise it was interesting too, and I even got offered
> another exhibition for the summer.
>
> Joost and Heather made it to Wageningen as well, including
> Joost's brother Joris (who has lived with us for 8 months and
> moved to a student house 3 weeks ago), and Joris' parents. Thanks
> guys, I really appreciate it. And thanks for the wine, Joost!
>
> At night we all had drinks, including a very nice dinner in
> Wageningen.
>
> To make this thread music related: doing an art exhibition is
> almost like doing a gig. There's no mistakes to be made during
> the gig, though, and no gear crashes to be expected. The only
> thing that can go wrong is if you start talking complete nonsense
> to the visitors or drink too much and throw up on someone.
> Nothing of the sort happened to me. Also, I never drink during
> these kind of events, especially not when I'm driving.
> Anyways, this exhibition took about the same amount of
> preparation as a gig, lots of lugging and trudging and sweating,
> and some nervousness (will they like my stuff...?) Good thing the
> Schuttelaars were there to help us when we had to bring the stuff
> back home ;-)
>
> All in all an awesome weekend.
>
> Check my website for some info and pictures.
> http://www.gertvansanten.nl/digital_art
>
> --
> Gert
> ----
>
> Gert van Santen
> www.gertvansanten.nl
>
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Romain
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