A hard reality that I'm certain that most artists have faced is that unless you are independently wealthy most of us actually want to sell our work....Probably so that we can buy more paints and a couple more canvases. I hear artists talk about "The Good Old Days" before the economy failure and collapse, when there were collectors out there that actually paid money for your artwork. Unfortunately, during that time period I was busy pushing a 10-key and was stacked up to my eyeballs with paperwork, working as the business administrator for a large private Christian school and church. Painting was a far distant memory and the dream of being an artist was pushed so far down in my heart that I really didn't even give it serious consideration.
That all changed a couple of years ago when I decided to finally take that drawing class at the local community college. For years I attended college classes there and online with University of Phoenix but each class always consisted of either being business or accounting related and it wasn't until I had gotten my BSBA did I even think I could take a "FUN" class. With drawing 101 under my belt, I decided to give some online painting lessons a try so that I could try to resurrect that skill that I had so long let lie dormant. I went through the 12-week landscape lessons presented by Tim Gagnon (
timgagnonstudio.com) and my excitement and confidence was reignited and the past three years are history.
So I have been retired from my "day" job for 6 months and now I'm painting full-time. I've sold a couple of things this year but like all the other artists I know, I want to sell much more. So I have my work hanging in a little co-op gallery in town and have packed up my "inventory" and hauled it out to a number of art shows. I've created a nice website and paint almost daily. I've decided that I'm going to offer smaller pieces that I can produce in less time and hopefully sell in a price range that will entice potential buyers to dig into their wallets.
Yesterday, even though I prefer to paint much larger, I created my first 8x10 masterpiece that I spent about an hour painting. I chose chickens as the subject matter because I have witnessed the reaction that my fellow artist and friend Anna Norris got from the public when they saw her "Rainbow Roosters".
annanorrisfineart.blogspot.com So I'm going to be offering 8x10's for about $50 instead of my normal price range of $150-$300. This piece I think I'm going to call "Chicken Little" and it will be the first of a number of smaller pieces I'm going to paint in the next few months. I hope you enjoy.
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| "Chicken Little"- 8x10 Original Oil |
