This is a brief post, just stopping in to make a public bookmark for myself, really. 

If you are going all in the canvas print market or just dabbling, one of the first challenges you'll run into is that the original dimensions of your paintings don't necessarily scale up or down to a popular sizes, i.e. easy to frame for most people.

Looking for quick advice on how to choose a panel or canvas for oil painters? Read the post and click the blog post title to get to the video link.

Special price opportunities, a bit about Sir William Nicholson, and digital marketing- all strangely in one blog post!

Planning art in a series gives me an end goal and gives collectors a heads up on what pieces might be available in the next season.

So... I look up more about him, and sure enough, he was an art forger before he hosted his TV how-to show. I should have known. I have a "thing" for British art forgers, artists, and gardeners I guess. The accent, the paints, copying old masters, the flowers... ah... all so peaceful. And there's always Bob Ross:)

Old masters' oil painting techniques fawn over the creamy, textural properties of white paint that contains lead. It dries quickly, has dreamy body (yes, still talking about oil paint), and has a certain warm silver cast to the color that adds an old master's look to your work. I was taught to be afraid of the paint interacting with other, synthetic paints, like cadmiums, but...

Free ebook downloads at the Getty Museum website. 

What one does on a plein air painting retreat!

Sharing the love of making and selling representational painting- all over the world.

In addition to painting, I love reading and growing plants.  I used to read a lot when I was young.  My backup career ideas as a teen were Library Science and English Literature.  Like some of you may have, I quit reading fiction when I got BUSY.  A few years ago, my mom gave me a hardcover copy of “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith (who also wrote the original 101 Dalmatians story and hit plays for the London stage), and I got re-hooked!

 I almost have the feeling that he would set about to paint something and honestly not know how he was going to pull it off. I don’t think he had any doubt in his ability to pull it off, it’s more that he was unafraid of different techniques and even rather unconventional points of view- odd angles, even including rather odd items or compositional elements. His unique perspective makes his work feel fresh to me.

Assembling a Collection in France by Carole Pinto

My inspiration for this article came after one too many strangers

exclaimed, upon learning that I am an art dealer, “I’d love to

buy art, but I can’t afford it!” 

Inside three days, I whisked through hundreds of booths of amazing art, saw some favorite pieces in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and visited the Brandywine River Museum, as well as an a tour of Andrew Wyeth’s studio which he used until his death in 2009, if I understood correctly. The Brandywine River setting alone was breathtaking…some pastorals will come out of what I saw there.

The title quote is in reference to the oil painting, High Cliff, Coast of Maine,by Winslow Homer.  Apparently, he had showed this painting a lot for 9 years before it found a buyer.  It contributed to his frequent questioning of himself in his mid-life sales slump.  In his frustration he asked his gallery in Chicago, "Why do you not sell that "High Cliff" picture?  I cannot do better than that.  Why should I paint?"

Look at this beautiful commissioned floral!! I love the colors in this piece. This was a painting where I was invited to the collector's home to see where a floral would hang and make my own judgement on colors and composition based on their other art and furnishings.

It's a good month for them.  For changes.

I decided to simplify my life and forget about a "website" for a while.  I have the worst luck building or having one built for me.  It seems too personal to have someone else do without having too many of my own opinions about the layout  And when I do it?  It looks like I did with all of the little technical know-how I have within me.

Finally I can say that spring has taken hold here in Michigan.  It was a long time in coming this year!  I'm adding a new image of Bluebird Trail ll after having repainted a couple of passages of it that seemed to need some more care than the plein air visit afforded.