GOOD ENOUGH IS NOT! How to photograph your artwork so that people pay attention. Whether we like it or not, EVERY opportunity in the artworld – exhibitions, competitions, commissions, and frequent sales – is dependent on your ability to photograph your artwork in a compelling way. If you are serious about your career, and you are, you need to know how to do this at the professional level. This hands-on workshop will review essential concepts, tips and techniques with a particular emphasis on “lighting” and “affordability”.
DATE: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
TIME: 7 – 8:30pm
LOCATION: Online – Zoom link will be emailed to you on November
Speaker
David McClyment: has been obsessively drawing for almost 70 years and professionally for over 40 years. He has exhibited primarily in the GTA, but also throughout Ontario and across Europe. His work has been the focus of many grants from all levels of government, including the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. McClyment has shown his work through exhibitions with commercial co-operatives, public galleries, artist-run centres and commercial galleries, as well as organizing his own initiatives. His exhibitions have been reviewed in many major media outlets, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Daily Star, the National Post and the Winnipeg Free Press.
In addition to his career as an artist, he has mentored hundreds of emerging artists; first through his role as a project officer in an arts service organization, and most lately as a professor and co-ordinator in the Fine Arts Studio program at Centennial College. In that capacity, he has received a number of awards for teaching excellence.
He is daily inspired by his long-time reason for living, Sue Bracken, and their multi-talented son, Jaimie.
Centennial College Press is about to release McClyment’s professional practices guide, “So You Want To Be An Artstar”. Covers this topic on photo-documentation and many, many more. Based on McClyment’s extensive personal experience in the artworld.
You can see more of his imagery by visiting his website: flyingpiecreations.com
