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I've been accepted again this year to be part of the Carmel Art Festival Plein Air competition. It's always great fun, with the top plein air artists from around the country. Last year there were even some from Holland and from the East Coast. You never now if you wil be accepted, so this is a thrill for me. I will also be featured in the special section on the festival in Soutwest Art Magazine in May...just in time for the competition. I'll be advertising on a 1/4 page, too, so two paintings will be shown.

I've also been selling paintings through Mountainsong Gallery in Carmel and through Amazonart.com. I've been hoping people would start using the website, and this week a lady from New York who bought one from Hawaii at Christmas contacted the gallery to buy a second painting I did at Kapalua Bay...just in the other direction.  She wants them to hang side by side. Fun!

I also realize my greatest form of marketing is still through personal contact. I often meet people while on location painting, give them my card and contact info, and then hear from them later. This week a gal who took a picture of me painting in Pt. Lobos called the gallery and wanted to know if she could still buy the one she watched me paint. I brought it down to the gallery for her, and she also chose another lagre one of Monastery Beach to take home to her new place in Texas...as a reminder of the beautiful Carmel area. What fun! Great people! (Her mother may also buy a flower painting).

Coming soon: The Plein Air Conventim in Monterey. Kevin and Wanda Macpherson will stay a few days here with us and then he will be the keynote speaker at the convention. My feet should be well enough to enjoy the event and stand long enough to paint. Yipee!