I set up a table in Union Square on Friday with my pen and ink crow drawings to sell. People were surprised that I had real drawings, not prints. It worked out much better than I'd hoped.
I'm going out on Wednesday this week, so if you're going to the Green Market or passing by Union Square Wednesday, visit me! I'll try to be near the Market, but some a-holes pay off homeless dudes to squat and save the "good" spots. When I went on Friday, I ended up setting up my table on the SE corner across from the former Virgin Mega-store, way around the corner from the green market. I got there relatively early, too- well before 8AM, to try to set up closer to the farmers. No luck. Maybe Wednesday will be less primal with the street vendors. I'm discovering a entirely new social ecosystem of NYC. The 'artists' who sell on the street.
I wanted to make a good impression on my new business peers, so I approached one of the people setting up work and asked if the milk crates meant STAY OUT, or if I could set up my 24" table between two strewn crates RIGHT next to the market. The man stood dumb for a minute or so staring at me, and then slowing rolled his (her?) eyes. Wrong person to ask for help. Billy, who looks like a failed female-tranny of Iggy Pop, ushered me off his domain. He sells Napoleon-dynamite-meets-Japanese-Noh theater-imagery if you'd like to pop in on him. He's quite lovely for a bag of cunts.
I've started a new series of drawings specifically for showing in the park: my Union Square series. The first three are drying in the studio. I'll post them tomorrow night and will have them on hand on Wednesday if you'd like to see them in person.
I'm one of the only people there selling real, hand drawn, NOT A PRINT artwork. I'll have this little crow drawing there with me, too, if you want it. I won't post how much I'm charging. It's a good deal.
