What painting means, indirectly
I can’t imagine why running here makes us think about aesthetics. Since I’ll never paint from a photo, you can enjoy the reflections and shadows now. Mary and I are running on the canal bank, discussing opening and delayed adverbs and adjectives. (I think middle school teachers invented them to torture students.) She gives an …
My new field easel
Slik tripod, Guerrilla painter easel head, and En Plein Air Pro shelf. After I posted last week about my search for a new plein air easel, I found this little number on Amazon. Oddly, while it is listed as being made by Guerrilla Painter, it isn’t on their website. Perhaps it’s a discontinued item. My …
Goodbye, Mermaid Madonna!
Mermaid Madonna and her little Mer-baby. The Mermaid Madonna left my studio today, bound for Stonington, ME, where she will be sold in the Penobscot East Resource Center’s 4th Annual Lobster Buoy and Reverse Auction. Penobscot East Resource Center works to rebuild a small-scale diversified fishery where fishermen and their communities are a part of …
How much should I charge for that painting, anyway?
Charge by the inch, of course. (I’m not kidding.) This is the most emotionally-fraught question I hear from beginning painters. You can simplify the issue greatly by setting aside your emotional involvement with your art and basing your selling price on the size of the piece and your selling history. If you’ve never sold anything …
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More on that winnowing thing
Everything I’ve sorted so far pales in comparison to the business of sorting paintings with a critical eye… there are works that aren’t mine, works I can’t assess the quality of, and works I hope to finish some day. The Duchy is perched on the side of Rochester’s only hill. This makes it prone to …