Paintings

Each year we have a show at the FWMoA called Cocktails and Culture.
As a member of the Fort Wayne Artists Guild I am eligible to participate.
This year I decided to paint several small paintings to sell.
Finding nice frames was probably the hardest part. I found some unfinished ones so they had to be sanded and stained and polyurethaned and sanded and hanging hardware put on. Takes some of the fun out of it.

Anyway, here is a glimpse of a few of the finished pieces unframed.

And here they are all hung up looking pretty.

I actually sold the big one of a pumpkin patch and

4 little ones.

They were fun to do and they don't take very long.

Just to be outside is the most fun.

This next quote is from an artist I admire greatly. 

I recently found this and will try to remember it 

when going outside is frustrating and inconvenient.

If I could instill one point in aspiring artists, it would be to paint from life whenever possible. I don’t care how many mosquitoes there are or how strong the wind is, how much junk you have to haul outside or how the light is blinding your eyes. Face it—the whole operation is quite inconvenient, but it is always worth the effort. It will pay dividends that you cannot quantify. When you stand before the magnificence of light bouncing off the subject, when you allow yourself to be wholly in awe of the creation before you and the Creator whose word spoke it into being, you cannot help but be supremely moved. It is this stirring of your soul which then works itself into your work.

~ Dan Gerhartz, Not Far from Home

With that said, I'll sign off.

Bye