A new scene is pictured in another big ol' painting. I do like to paint big...used to be something I was intimidated by but a large palette and big blobs of paint help to take the edge off the fear factor. There is a lot of paint on this bad boy too. The golden/rose sky is pretty cool and this, in spite of a slow season for eBay, is being offered at auction right here. This particular painting will look especially good in one of our wide profile black frames. (keep that in mind if you bid)Does it bum me out a bit when I sell a large painting at a low price on auction? Well, yes and no. Most of the time a lower priced auction ends up going to a repeat customer...that warms the cockles of my heart. Sometimes it will be a new collector but they are almost always very appreciative if not altogether savvy about art and what they got. Once in a while someone will think that the gallery and retail prices I mention on the sale page in describing the value of the work is just a bunch of hot comedy. There is an awful lot of that out there so I can hardly blame anyone for doubting the stated value... but it does hurt. I'd almost rather not sell at all...just enshrine my little babies in a secure vault and let my progeny sort out the estate after I'm gone. Or,... I could just burn them in effigy.
I guess, after all is said and done, I want them (the paintings) to be happy in their new homes scattered hither and yon throughout the American countryside adorning the otherwise bland and barren walls. Well, if FDR promised a chicken in every pot the least I can do is hope for a painting in every room (they don't all have to be mine)
