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March 17, 2012
The picture above is Goulding's Ghost, one of my favorites.
I've been painting since Verle Nelson and Mary Lou Anderson (both now dead) introduced me to the desire to move oil paint around on canvas or a board in 1966. I credit Verle for my desire to show this stuff on the internet, Mary Lou for technical advice and inspiration.
They were both college educated artists, I am entirely self taught (with Mary Lou's help). One of the joys of painting is satisfying yourself, to hell with the public. I have never actively pursued selling anything that I have done. I have, however sold a few things.
The first was a pencil drawing of a Playboy centerfold , about 3 feet long, on butcher paper with a homemade frame. One of the people I worked with offered me $3 for it sight unseen. After delivery, she gave me a carton of my brand of cigarettes and two bottles of Mateus red wine, cause she thought it worth more than $3.
I sold two paintings to another co-worker some years later for $35 each. One was a visual pun the other he commissioned.
An ocean side cliff scene was bought by a co-worker, one of my first attempts at Delicate Arch went to another co-worker. A commission of a barn to a third.
So, I guess that I have been a lot more sucesseful than Vincent Van Gogh while still alive. I doubt that I will have any better sales after I die, though.
March 29, 2012
I added hit counters to all pages today. They are at the bottom of each page except the comment page. They are there so I can tell whether or not this is just another expensive hobby or something other people like as much as I do.
The picture above is Goulding's Ghost, one of my favorites.
I've been painting since Verle Nelson and Mary Lou Anderson (both now dead) introduced me to the desire to move oil paint around on canvas or a board in 1966. I credit Verle for my desire to show this stuff on the internet, Mary Lou for technical advice and inspiration.
They were both college educated artists, I am entirely self taught (with Mary Lou's help). One of the joys of painting is satisfying yourself, to hell with the public. I have never actively pursued selling anything that I have done. I have, however sold a few things.
The first was a pencil drawing of a Playboy centerfold , about 3 feet long, on butcher paper with a homemade frame. One of the people I worked with offered me $3 for it sight unseen. After delivery, she gave me a carton of my brand of cigarettes and two bottles of Mateus red wine, cause she thought it worth more than $3.
I sold two paintings to another co-worker some years later for $35 each. One was a visual pun the other he commissioned.
An ocean side cliff scene was bought by a co-worker, one of my first attempts at Delicate Arch went to another co-worker. A commission of a barn to a third.
So, I guess that I have been a lot more sucesseful than Vincent Van Gogh while still alive. I doubt that I will have any better sales after I die, though.
March 29, 2012
I added hit counters to all pages today. They are at the bottom of each page except the comment page. They are there so I can tell whether or not this is just another expensive hobby or something other people like as much as I do.
