Apologies for the updates

My apologies for the updates, or rather the lack of. I have close to a dozen new pieces to upload but life has kept me pretty busy lately. I also took a few commissions that the commissioners did not want me to add to my portfolio for different reasons.

For the last month or so I've been very busy as the Superintendent of Arts & Hand Crafts department at the West Alexander Fair and I gave the department a complete overhaul. The last layout had been that way for more than 60 years so it was in dire need of a change.

The Fair kicked off on Labor Day and the department got setup the night before. Had a few people who didn't make it because of the rain, but we still had a lot of people enter and I'm glad to say we had a lot of art come in this year, mostly for the junior division which is ages 14-19 and it was great and inspiring to see that there is a lot of young artistic talent out there that is going to bloom.

I'm allowed to compete in my department since I'm not the judge, but I don't because I think of that as a conflict of interests, but I do display my work in the hall for other people to see and I've heard from a lot of people who enter that they feel better that a fellow artist is in charge of the section. My latest portrait piece is on display in the hall of the fairgrounds at the moment, so when the fair finally concludes I hope to be able to get a few minutes that I can sit down and do a proper update to upload my new pieces and be able to share it with everyone.

Thanks for reading, Happy Labor Day!

~Patrick