Munden's Paint

But unfortunately it ended up being one of the windiest Good Ol Days in the festival's history, and I only got to paint once out of both days. It was so windy that some of the vendors' ez-ups were getting ripped apart or broken up. Vendors were losing their crafts and goods to the wind, and some vendors even left the show a day early because of the weather conditions. My family and I spent a majority of the weekend holding down our display so it wouldn't fly across the street! I had cinder blocks on all 4 corners of my ez-up and there were a couple times where they still lifted off the ground. It was nuts! And I had a couple of paintings fly off of my display boards and jack up the corners here and there.

Early Saturday afternoon I was hiding in my booth and I realized that I didn't have a sign for my stuff, so i crouched down between my tables with the intent of making a quick 20x30 sign with a planet, mountains & trees on the right side and then my name on the left side... I started doing the planet, looked up and realized there was about 10 ppl watching me. I kinda smiled a half smile, and started adding stars... looked up and there were a few more ppl... then I started adding mountains & water - still just kind of halfa$$ working 1 side of the board... when I was ready to add the text on the left I looked up and there was close to twenty ppl crowded into my ezup and staring down at me.  I kind of made a joke about how I was just making a sign for my booth and there were a few smiles... but I liked the fact that I was finally painting - so I added another planet on the left side w/ more mountains, water, stars etc and blended the 2 sides into each other making one unified painting. Then the wind picked up my booth and blew a couple of my paintings off the table - I jumped up to grab my stuff and everyone kind of dispersed. BUT about an hour later a guy and his wife came back around and asked to purchase the painting that I had done in front of everyone, and they also bought an 11x14 'cross' painting to go with it.  That was my first sale for the weekend. 

Oh and also by the way - we started the festival with 2 walls up on the ezup to help block the wind, but it actually made things WORSE and turned my ezup into more of a big sailboat, so we ended up taking the walls down.

Anyway - all in all I sold 5 paintings: (3)-20x30 paintings and (2)-11x14.

Here's some pics of my booth...