Sales, Exhibit, Framing, Display Information

 

Saturday, September 21

All work must be painted and completed en plein air on the premises of Blandy Experimental Farm and VA State Arboretum during the days of the competition. 

 

Wet Paint Main Event
Submit up to TWO framed & ready-to-hang paintings from 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM on Saturday, September 21 at the Wet Paint Tent (Tent A). All submitted paintings must be for sale. We suggest a starting price of 200.00 for small paintings (8x10.)

Please bring a standing easel to display your painting. Two paintings can be displayed on one easel.

Featured Artists' Paintings
Submit at Tent B on September 21, 8:00 - 10:30 AM. All submitted paintings must be for sale. At least 2 paintings must have been painted en plein air at Blandy during the week. Featured artists may bring 2 additional landscape pieces from their collection. All work must be framed.

Please bring your own display easels! Two paintings can be displayed on one easel. See below.


Quick Draw Paintings
Submit one (1) QD painting at Tent B on September 21 at 11:00. All submitted paintings must be for sale. Paintings are not required to be framed.



All tents will be closed to the public until 12:00.

 

All supports must have been stamped at check-in. Size maximum 16" x 20" in size. 

Each painting must have back and front tags completed and taped to the proper side. A 30% commission* will be collected for all sold paintings by Blandy Experimental Farm. *Artists are welcome to donate a higher percentage of their commission to the Arboretum. All proceeds will benefit the Arboretum.
 

Use the Back and Front Gallery Tags provided to label your paintings before submitting. 

 

Framing Requirements (wet paint main event)

 

Bring your easels! We have a very limited supply of display easels and we will not guarantee that your beautiful artwork would have an easel to be displayed on! Again, please bring your easels for display!

All artwork must be framed in a professional manner.

 

Please use D-Rings and wire on the back of your frame. No clip frames  No sawtooth hangers allowed 
 

Tips for framing: make sure your frame openings fit your supports. If you are using panels, look for a “plein air”  frame when purchasing frames.  

 
 

Display Easels for  Exhibit 

 

With the risk of redundancy,, please bring your own standing easels for displaying your paintings during the exhibit. These can be your working easels and/or presentation style easels. You can use one standing easel to display 2 paintings if necessary.

 

Quick Draw paintings may be displayed on flat on tables or on table easels provided by Plein Air at the Arboretum. You may bring your own small table easel to display your painting. Please label your easels with your name and ID number.

 

Tips for easels : 

Inexpensive presentation easels are available on Amazon and office supply stores if needed. 

 

DIY TIP

DISPLAYING TWO PAINTINGS ON ONE DISPLAY EASEL

 
You can use one easel to display two paintings by placing one painting on the horizontal canvas holder. Using the same horizontal canvas holder as your guide, wire the second painting  to hang from the canvas holder below the top painting.