| 6" x 6" oil on Ampersand Gessobord Click here to Buy Now through PayPal. $90. |
Found this little plate at Goodwill and loved the retro pattern. I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out even though it's different than I envisioned it when I started. I'm still finding it very difficult to loosen up and continue to fall back into old habits. I've started reading Alla Prima, Everything I Know About Painting by Richard Schmidt and hope some of his thoughts will influence my painting. His style is wonderful and loose and he points out that looseness "should be the way a painting appears, not how it is accomplished." He talks a lot about being deliberate, careful and accurate which at first seems contrary to looseness, but apparently not so. For me being careful and accurate translates into being very tight. I have so much to learn...
I think I broke part of my blog. Pretty sure no emails announcing my last post, "Three Amigos", went out to all the wonderful people who have "subscribed". I tweaked the wording about subscribing and in the process must have somehow messed up the feed. I've gone back over it all and hopefully it's okay now but I don't have a lot of confidence that it is. A lot of this is a mystery to me so I just try to figure it out as I go.
I'm trying "buy now" on this one instead of putting it in the DPW auction. I wonder what most buyers prefer... Do they like "buy now" so they can easily finalize a purchase? Do they find it inconvenient to have to keep up with an auction or do they enjoy the bidding process?
Hello Kathleen:) I love your cherries on that plate. The plate is so nice. The colors of the plate look so nice against the soft colors of your cherries. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks Renate! I wasn't too sure about the orangish red on the plate against the purplish red of the cherries but decided to proceed with it and I rather like the combination now that it's done.
ReplyDeleteClever use of the flat cherries against the sculptural. I am trying the buy now feature. I believe each option has its pros and cons. The buy now is quick and easy for the buyer looking for something specific say for a present. Make sure you cover all the bases in the key words category. The auction has the whole section devoted to it with the "just added" feature. I think that those who enjoy auctions will find what they want there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carlene! I guess it's best to mix it up once in a while... Good point about the key words.
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