Ice Fishing Completed

It's been a couple weeks since I had a chance to update this page. I finished ICE FISHING and it is now listed on eBay for $45.00 It really needs to sell for more than that or I am going to have to stop selling there. $45 barely covers the cost of paint and canvas-- let alone my time! I love the way this one turned out and I will keep it if it doesn't sell for more than $100.

Ice Fishing in Progress

I think this painting is going to take me forever. I don't know why, but I am less than enthusiastic about it or maybe I am just intimidated by the size of it. What is strange is that it hasn't really taken me any longer to paint what I have here than it woudl have if I had painted it on a smaller canvas. So I only have about three hours in it, now. I am pretty suire I could finish in another three hours.

No. 12 and Lucky No. 13 and Wow it is Friday the 13th

I can't honestly say I finished no. 13 on Friday the 13th because I was done yesterday. I began them both Wednesday and finished them Thursday morning.

These two are a bit different from the previous nudes in the way I have presented the background. There is actually a message in number 12 and a subliminal message in no. 13. I just thought of an idea- I should have hidden the number of the piece in each painting! That would have been different and kind of a puzzle in the painting itself. Maybe I'll do that with the next series; I'll just be happy to meet my self-imposed deadline with this one.

This painting will require a commitment....

But I don't mind as I find the dynamics and faces interesting. It's larger than I'm used to painting (24" x 30") but I feel driven to expore large. Anything smaller than 16" x 20" almost feels cramped to me now. I want to use big brushes and extravagant quantities of paint. :)

The Holidays are Over!

I painted two more nudes for the Colorful eBay Series of 20 this week. No. 10 (right) I wanted to be a "10" and it took quite a bit longer (4-1/2 hours!) to paint than most of the other. I had a lot of help from my unofficial critiquer "Clark". He is good at pointing out things I don't see and ultimately the advice he offered was right on and improved the painting immensely! It is 2006 and I felt it was time to UP the prices so I listed this one at $149- still about 1/10th what a local gallery would charge for similar work, but fair for eBay. All I can hope is that it might get bid up to a fair price.

No. 11 (above-left) was painted from a drawing that held very little detail so I concentrated on making the background and composition exciting. Not sure whetehr I succeeded but I am listing this one at $79 and crossing my fingers. I like the sketchy and impressionistic style although it's way different from no. 10.