{"id":2008,"date":"2014-07-26T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T05:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2014-07-26T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T05:22:51","slug":"sooke-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/sooke-art-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooke Art Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Sooke Fine Arts\" href=\"http:\/\/sookefinearts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sooke Art Show<\/a> is pretty amazing as usual. I am always amazed by the variety of work. Some of the work is jaw-droppinly good, while others are a bit <em>meh<\/em> in my opinion{{1}}, but that is what makes a large show so exciting. I always like to walk around and get an overview of the artwork before returning to my favourites.<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of art and quite a few people at the Artists Gala on Saturday, and it took a while for me to find my <a title=\"Sooke Art Show 2014 photos\" href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/files\/lrgalleries\/sooke2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photographs<\/a>. I was quite excited to see a red dot{{2}} on one of my pieces already.<\/p>\n<p>Later I was listening to another photographer describing his work. He admitted he did not have much technical knowledge. I started talking to a couple listening to this photographer and admitted I do have a lot of technical knowledge. We went over to look at my images and talked a while, then I asked to see her work. Meanwhile her husband disappeared. When he came back he said I have another red dot. In his words, &#8220;I passed the interview&#8221; and he purchased my second piece.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story: Know your stuff and don&#8217;t be afraid to talk about your art&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[[1]]of course what I liked and did not like are different from what others like and dislike. This is one of the things that makes discussions of art so interesting.[[1]]<\/p>\n<p>[[2]]For those who don&#8217;t know, a red dot at an art show means the piece is sold. Apparently, one of my photos sold to an early viewer.[[2]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sooke Art Show is pretty amazing as usual. I am always amazed by the variety of work. Some of the work is jaw-droppinly good, while others are a bit meh in my opinion{{1}}, but that is what makes a large show so exciting. I always like to walk around and get an overview of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artshows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}