I’m around, but not working much, sort of taking time off to spend with some friends and other responsibilities. However, I know how annoying and puzzling it is when a blog you read daily just seems to vanish, so I’ll post a quick something each day. Far be it from me to annoy my tens of blog readers!
This painting sold a week or two ago. It has been around for awhile, so I figured that I must have saturated the market with the Kaweah Post Office. This is painting #23. The title is Kaweah Post Office XXII, but I miscounted when I was titling them.
I painted this one en plein air, and then didn’t like it so retouched it, still didn’t like it, so retouched it again. Then when it took awhile to sell, I almost pulled it from the store multiple times, but Nancy Who Knows Better kept urging me to leave it. So, we did little happy squeals and laughs when she told me last week that it sold.
Now I will only paint it again if someone commissions me.
The Kaweah Post Office is no longer operational. Used to be the smallest operating post office in the country. Now it is just a vandalism target. Sigh. It is in Three Rivers, although the folks nearby insist that they live in Kaweah, with their own zip code. Doesn’t mean anything because the mail lands in the Three Rivers Post Office.
So there.
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If it helps, my 8 x 10 painting of the Kaweah Post Office says #1846, with IXV crossed out and XIV written. It’s sad it has fallen on hard times. I remember my grandfather would make it a point to buy all his stamps and mail packages from there to help keep it in business. Alas!
And a nice walk in nature is never “slacking!”
Sharon, when I was new to painting, I wasn’t careful with my inventory numbering because I had no idea that I’d be painting the same scenes over and over.
You are right about “slacking” —it was a field trip, a journey to gather new inspiration.
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