Toronto outdoor art exhibition experience

Last week I was at the Toronto outdoor art exhibition to show and sell my paintings. One of the things of doing the Toronto outdoor art exhibition was you never know who you will meet, I had met people I haven’t seen in years and some whom I don’t wish to see, All weekend I was so busy with people interested in my paintings many stopped to talk to me and sold many paintings. However, there also some interesting encountered with the public because the show also attached lots of artists, some came to check out the competitions so to speak. One woman spent great deal of my time, telling me her terrible life how without of these events which somehow all happened to her, she could be an artist. Lucky for me, I had become her captured audience. Many amateur watercolour artists all tried to get tips on watercolour from me. I always tell them there are no secret and the best is learning from yourself because the more you paint and more you can improve on. There were no secret to it.
One poor soul even armed with his portfolio and insisted I look at it! The sad part was his work was so bad not because he doesn’t have the skill. He paints all his oil paintings with so much detail: a garden painting there was same amount of attention to detail to the background as the foreground, every leaf and flower looks all too perfect. The result was the painting looks like an over-worked fantasy illustration; it was just to busy to look at. When I suggested to him maybe he needed to toned down his detail in the background he became very defensive. At the end I finally realized he was not came to seek advice but to confirm to himself how great an artist he is. I got a feeling he must has apply and got rejected from the show .Later I checked on the internet to see his other work, there were many of his prints of the same type of paintings he showed me for sale most of them selling for less than $4.