How to Build a Shipping Crate, Lotus Art in Progress
Cedar Lee July 16th, 2009
This week I had to ship a large painting across the country, and I decided to take detailed step-by-step photos as I was building my heavy-duty shipping crate. This will be most helpful to artists who need to ship large 2D artwork and want to build their own shipping crates, but even if you have no such need, it still might interest you: Click here to see.
I’m currently working on 3 new Lotus paintings all at once, laid out around me on the floor of the studio. I’m almost done filling in very rough, big blocks of color on all of them. I’m about to start adding detail and definition. You can expect pictures of my new Lotus flower art within the next few days as I finish them up!
Here are a few teensy sneak peeks at the works in progress:
This weekend I plan to go with friends to check out Artscape, Baltimore, MD’s annual summer arts festival.
I have never participated as an artist there, mostly because I never seem to have enough artwork in stock to fill a whole booth. It’s the kind of thing I’d have to plan many months ahead of time. This year I never even considered entering Artscape because I’ve been so busy making enough art to keep my three galleries supplied, and to replace paintings I’ve sold. This, I suppose, is a good thing. But I think I might like to participate in an arts festival at some point in the future. For now, I’m happy to go downtown and experience the festival as a member of the throngs of spectators.
