Category: product

Craft Fair Recap, part 1 (the product)

I’m not quite sure how many parts this will turn out to be, but “one” seems like an appropriate place from which to start. The 33rd Annual Fine Craft and Design Fair was this past weekend. It’s a juried fair, which means that your product has to have passed certain standards of quality for you…

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Katherine tries out realism as an artform

Most of Katherine’s art is very impressionistic. Her crabs, for instance, reflect rather her feelings about crabs than any real crabitude. They’re red and huge and have very pointy claws, but the shape is somewhat amorphous. I’ve been trying recently to show her how to see shapes in things and to draw with some attention…

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Craft Fair chaos

I haven’t posted much in the last while. Mea maxima culpa, but I have an excuse reason. Since theshow opening, I’ve been getting things ready for the largest provincial Fine Craft Fair in mid-November. This means not only making more stock than is reasonable to make in a month, but also putting new things through…

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