Customer? Client? How about a long time friend who commissioned me to paint for her? Commissioner? Never mind. I delivered “Spring In Three Rivers” to my friend and hung it on the wall where she had planned for it to go. We looked at the pictures around it and knew it wasn’t the best combination. […]
Spring in Three Rivers is a Beautiful Memory
Is that a funny title for a post during the hot time of year? I love spring. It isn’t hot. This painting in progress reminds me of the beautiful season. I’m juicing up (exaggerating) the colors a bit and it is fun. I love dabbing on little specks of different shades of pink. These redbud […]
Spring in Three Rivers Oil Painting Commission
Spring in Three Rivers just might be an appropriate title, although there is little evidence of any river, much less three of them in this picture. But, we are in a canyon that follows the North Fork of the Kaweah, and the presence of sycamore trees indicates a source of water near by. (Can you […]
Another Oil Painting Commission
If you’ve known me for awhile, you may have heard me say that it is all my friends and relatives who buy my work because they feel sorry for me. Another friend used to tell me this: “If your friends and family won’t do business with you, who will?” A long time friend asked me […]
The Cabin Painting Grows
On Wednesday, I left you with this cliff hanger of a picture: This is the next view: And this is how it looked when it was getting a little too dark to see out in the painting workshop. Now it is time to show the customer before I do any more detail work. That large […]
Earning the Big Bucks Painting a Cabin
This is how it looked the last time we discussed the back country cabin in Kings Canyon National Park. “We discussed”? Who is this we? Um, well, me. I thought it looked sort of fakey with just 2 thunderheads. No worries. The sky dried enough that I could add more. And notice the added detail […]
Building a Cabin in Oil Paint
The sky isn’t dry yet, so I went to work on the trees and began on the cabin. Couldn’t wait – I am “cabinart”, after all! These details are going to be FUN!
Why is this Oil Painting Commission So Hard??
As a studio painter, I work from photos. There is a ton of pressure out there in ArtWorld to paint plein air, which might be French for “on location”. There is a ton of embarrassment out there in ArtWorld about painting from photos, because it usually garners a lot of derision and sneering and condescension. […]
Commissioned Oil Paintings With Far Away Customers
Commissions are an important component of earning a living with art. Some artists love them, some do them while figuratively holding their noses, and some artists flat out refuse. I fall somewhere between the first 2 types of artists, because it depends on both the idea and the customer. While I worked with Lisa on […]
Seeing Triple
Two of these have been shipped and one has been retrieved in person. PHEW!! We did it, Lisa!!