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A New Year’s Resolution – Buy Local and "Call the Man!"  There’s an expression Lenny and I use nearly every time something needs to be repaired in our house – "Call the man, Aunt Bea!  Call the man!"  If you’re an ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW fan, you’ll recognize this right away. In a favorite episode, Aunt Bea tries ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 26 December 2011 | Hits: 1034
... much, you lose some money; that is all. But when you pay too little, you often lose everything, for the object purchased cannot perform the task it was intended for.”  Now, I like a good bargain just as much as the next person, but I also like to think that I’m a smart enough consumer to know when to spend money and when I can go for the less ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Thursday, 04 April 2013 | Hits: 274
While Lenny and I own a spacious 5500 square foot gallery, MY office is anything but.  My cubicle is slightly less than 5ft x 5 ft.   (I measured it.)  Add in a desk, a chair, a computer, a purse, a lunch bag, a coat, files, papers and two dogs who sit at my feet and it makes for a very crowded workspace. (Before we remodeled the ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 11 January 2013 | Hits: 668
... it every day. Listen and tell us what you think.      All of us who work at The Art Shop wear different hats.  While we can all pick out outstanding framing for a customer, only Janelle can create a terrific video and put it on YouTube.  While all of us can string more than two sentences together (usually), only Andy can ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 02 July 2012 | Hits: 946
“We hope to inform and keep you up-to-date on the latest in the art and custom-framing world and make you laugh occasionally in the process.” That’s what I wrote at the end of our first blog on November 1, 2011. I realize now I left out something very important in that line.  Through our blog, we want you get to know us as individuals ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 03 May 2013 | Hits: 218
... as his career was taking off.  Lenny and I attended ArtExpo in New York the following year and saw row after row of booths selling cheap imitations of his work.  We were not surprised. It’s a lot easier to tap into someone else’s success than it is to create your own niche.  It’s also very profitable. Roughly 60% of all knock-off ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Thursday, 13 December 2012 | Hits: 537
... the photo shoot with the client in their backyard garden. And take a look at the video we created from this portrait commission by  Johnson. (above) Think about investing in a portrait that will pay you dividends every day of your life as you walk past it and that will be an heirloom to be valued for generations.    ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Thursday, 07 June 2012 | Hits: 1402
One of the questions we get asked very often is, "How do you select the art you hang in your gallery?" Other artists who would like us to hang theirs most often ask this. Generally speaking, to hang on our walls or to be featured on our website, the artist needs to be a known entity people are searching for over the Internet.  ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Monday, 23 January 2012 | Hits: 1170
... ever competed. Just as professional athletes were barred from competing at that time, neither were professional artists allowed to submit their works. Very little is known about the winners from those years because there was little thought to documentation of the awards.  The best documented Arts Olympics were the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin. ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 03 August 2012 | Hits: 863
I tend to make New Year’s resolutions every December 31 and by January 14, I’ve forgotten all about them.  Something tells me I’m not the only one guilty of this. I saw a very interesting alternative to making resolutions, so I’m hopeful this year will be different.  It was in an article in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY entitled: "Five ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Monday, 31 December 2012 | Hits: 583
Any plans for Valentine’s Day? Hope your celebration is better than this woman’s - she & her husband go to the card store every Valentine’s Day, pick out cards, read them to each other and then put them back on the shelf. (Yes, cards are pricey, but come on!) And I hope your spouse is more romantic than this woman’s - her husband (now ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Tuesday, 05 February 2013 | Hits: 410
... a very early age. Encouraged by his parents and his uncle, Pino, he trained at some of the finest schools in Italy.  Pino moved to the US in 1979 and Vidan followed in 1988.  He followed in his uncle’s footsteps and took work as a cover illustrator for romance magazines.  For 15 years, his artwork appeared on book covers for such publishers ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Friday, 09 March 2012 | Hits: 9301
... in storage.  Since we’ll have a large crowd at our Open House, we’d like everyone to see a more representative sample of the artists we carry.  That means Andy is re-re-hanging the gallery.  We also are busy getting out the Christmas tree and all the decorations that are in storage just like you do at home.  We held our first ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Friday, 30 November 2012 | Hits: 574
... York, Atlanta and Las Vegas. Owners and directors of galleries across the country have signed up for Andy’s classes in Art Marketing and Art Event Planning. Evaluating art is another passion of Andy’s. Nearly every day, someone calls about or walks in with a piece of art they inherited, found or bought wanting to know what it is worth.  Andy loves ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Friday, 22 June 2012 | Hits: 1040
... Chris loves to compete in framing competitions put on by the PPFA (Professional Picture Framers Association).  For the 2012 PPFA International Framing Competition held at the Annual Convention in Las Vegas, everyone was given a print called "Fall Leaf/Blue Sky."  Chris’s entry won Popular Choice in the international competition after ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 20 July 2012 | Hits: 691
 
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