Wow! Tonight we had hundreds of guests at the Johnson Gallery on the southsid
e of Edmonton visiting our fall show and sale.
We doubled our sales from last year, and I sold several pieces myself, including 'In the Rough' shown here.
We had almost 100 paintings at the show, including 14 'Knee High' paintings. The Knee High portion of the show was a series of 8x10" studies of subjects one would see at or below knee level. 'In the Rough' was one of those small studies.
It was exciting to paint for this show - working towards deadlines is natural for me after having spent 25 years in the newspaper/magazine industry.
Just when I had completed all the paintings for this show, the gallery called and had sold one of the paintings I had planned for the show. So, one week before the show I had to paint another painting. Several days in a row of painting until 2:30 a.m. and then starting again at 7 a.m. resulted in a still life with a partially bitten apple, partially peeled orange, and a cut lime. It is a painting I am particularly proud of because it has very nice light on the fruit, and a lovely reflection of all the fruits on the surface beneath them.
I can honestly say it is a delicious painting, since as you can see -
e of Edmonton visiting our fall show and sale.We doubled our sales from last year, and I sold several pieces myself, including 'In the Rough' shown here.
We had almost 100 paintings at the show, including 14 'Knee High' paintings. The Knee High portion of the show was a series of 8x10" studies of subjects one would see at or below knee level. 'In the Rough' was one of those small studies.
It was exciting to paint for this show - working towards deadlines is natural for me after having spent 25 years in the newspaper/magazine industry.
Just when I had completed all the paintings for this show, the gallery called and had sold one of the paintings I had planned for the show. So, one week before the show I had to paint another painting. Several days in a row of painting until 2:30 a.m. and then starting again at 7 a.m. resulted in a still life with a partially bitten apple, partially peeled orange, and a cut lime. It is a painting I am particularly proud of because it has very nice light on the fruit, and a lovely reflection of all the fruits on the surface beneath them.
I can honestly say it is a delicious painting, since as you can see -
I had a chance to sample the subject.
Now that the hub-bub of this show is over, I am really looking forward to starting my next painting and I can already almost taste my next subject - yum. I'm pretty sure it's going to be another still life.
I will be photographing the progress and posting it on the blog.
Now that the hub-bub of this show is over, I am really looking forward to starting my next painting and I can already almost taste my next subject - yum. I'm pretty sure it's going to be another still life.
I will be photographing the progress and posting it on the blog.
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