This last art show called Art in the Park was good to me. I sold 3 original paintings and many prints and note cards. I am excited to tell you about the sold paintings and a little about their new owners.
The above painting is called “A Girl and her Bird” and is an intuitive painting. She has a new home with another artist and I was very happy for her to have it. Prints are still available if you’re interested here. Here’s my method for an intuitive painting: As I paint this type of painting, I start with a white gesso’d substrate and use a brush with india ink to start painting random lines. I then allow the painting to basically paint itself. It morphs into a scene that I see and I pull out what wants to be seen. I never know what the final painting will look like until the piece tells me it’s finished. After the india ink, I paint mostly with metallic acrylics but also non metallic. The end result for the original is a shimmering beautiful piece that reminds me of a painted mosaic. The flatness of the india ink and the contrast of the shimmering metallic is something I like very much.
The next painting sold was “Beautiful Dreamer” of my “Nevermore Series” to a fun, young hip couple. They oohed and ahhed over it but couldn’t make up their mind if they wanted a print or the original so they took a little break from it but next thing I knew they were back and giddy with their decision. I know it will have a great home with the other original art in their collection. I asked them to send me a photo of the painting in its new home and if they do, I’ll make sure I share it here. I hope they do, it makes me feel great to see my work on other peoples walls.
The final original painting I sold was what I call a miniature. “Snowy Night” went home with this most charming young lady all but about 7 years old. Mine was not her first, oh no. She is already an accomplished collector with a painting from Australia and another far away place I cannot recall at the moment. How wonderful it is to see parents teaching their children culture. She will be (and already is!) a great patron of the arts and I am proud to have had the painting that she found worthy to add to her collection. Prints of course are still available here.
Snowy Night
Before I go, I wanted to show you my booth set up with my new, yes I said new, graphic display system I just bought. I know I just had made a new wall for my booth, but it wouldn’t stand up in grass and this new purchased one looks really professional. I made the covers for it myself. Ain’t I the handy one? Ha ha, see you next time.
I am so happy for your success Jaime! Of course you are a very talented artist,
but that doesn’t always mean sales…
Birds seem to be your thing…each painting so different, yet still YOU.
And look at the collectors! All so different too….
Brava my friend! ♥♥
Thank you my sweet Lisa! I so appreciate your thoughts.
What a great post – I just love that the 7 year old girl is spending her money on original art. Just think about when she’s older and she can look back on starting her collection. I so love your raven. SO love it.
Also thanks for sharing your process with the intuitive paintings. It’s something I’m trying to do more and I actually did with one of the ICAD’s I did this week. I surprised myself at what showed up on the card and have been surprised even more at the response – over on Flickr and the FB page it seems to have gone down as the favourite of the ones I’ve done this week. Which should tell me something…
Thank you Carmen! Isn’t it great about that young art collector?! I can’t wait to see your icad… I’ve been busy and it seems like forever since I’ve visited anyone else’s blog.
Congrats on the sales, that is awesome 🙂
I know what you mean, I LOVE it when people are so excited when they buy a piece and then share photos of its new home 🙂
Have a lovely weekend, cheers, T. 🙂
OOooo I really do hope they share a photo T. I had a great weekend, I hope yours was great too!
Hi Jamie. Thx for the well wishes. Love that raven and congrats on the sale. Looks like it was fun for you. You are doing good girl. Don’t forget to do your veggie garden though. We are getting so many string beans. Take care and be well.
Thanks Gloria, it was fun. Glad you stopped by.