1: A drawing of mine will be published in the March issue of Cotswold Life magazine. This came about through Tracy Spiers on the course who works for the magazine. I don't know which drawing they have used! But await the outcome anyway. It is likely to be a small image as I got in just before the deadline, and some explanatory text with a link to this blog.
2: Following onto this, I pitched a daily blog idea to the magazine's assistant editor Candia McCormack - the idea being that during the Festival I will send some drawings to the magazine and they will feature them on their website with text written by me as well. The Festival is four days so this will mean coming back to the studio, scanning and cleaning things up and doing a bit of writing. The idea was welcomed and all going well will go ahead - which is excellent. I hope this will give the work and myself a bit more coverage and also give me a bit more of a clear idea of how to approach the work during Festival week.
3: I have also obtained passes to all four days of the Festival (11th -14th March) through my contact there. This won't get me into the Parade Ring or weighing room but the rest of the place should be on. So I don't have to fork out cc £300+ for tickets which is nice.
4: I made some more business cards as I ran out; again on the MFD but this time with some decent card from Rymans. Made a template in Indesign this time so it printed Duplex, then trimmed them down:
5: I have approached The Loquens Gallery in Cheltenham which specialises in cartoons and watercolours. I introduced my project and work and exchanged business cards. They said that, contrary to logical assumptions, Festival week is quiet as far as art sales ago, but they can at least look at my website and see whether they like any of the drawings.
6: I will hopefully be able to have a table to sell work at a Festival preview evening event on the 9th March organised by a contact I met at the racecourse - Steve Ennis who organises the Cheltenham and Three Counties Raceclub. I have prepared just over 20 possible prints in A4 size ready to go with a few A3 and will have a look at buying some mount board or getting pre-cut ready made mounts from somewhere possibly the range to mount up some Giclee prints I intend to do at Hardwick.
7: I intend to research the racecourse gallery itself which apparently exists somewhere in the bowels of the grandstand and which I am yet to find although I need to know who runs it so things to find out here.
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