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That painting is done. So is that one. Well, and that one and that one and and and and...

6/10/2011

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I love to paint.   
I paint. 
 A LOT.
That means that there are a lot of paintings finished.
A LOT.
My New Year's Resolution was to get my feet wet and try to sell some paintings and learn the "how" and "where" of selling my art work.
In the meantime, I am uh, building inventory......
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I bought a vast amount of canvas on ebay.
 I think the canvas is like the end-run of a manufacturing process.  It comes double-primed and ready to go.
  I also buy used pre-painted canvases and paint those too.
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I staple the ebay canvas to plywood...
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I paint flat - not upright and when they are dry and I am deciding if they are done, I stack them up against a wall.
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When I am sure a painting is "done"  I put a clear seal on the painting and remove the staples and stack the painting on the stack.   
I have a framer in Portland that does a great job of putting these on stretcher bars when I want them to be wall-ready.

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It is a good thing that I can stack these paintings on top of one another - if they were stretched or framed - then I would truly run out of room, because I simply cannot 
CAN NOT 
stop painting.
There are far more serious afflictions to have than the compulsion to paint.   
Yes.  
I am sure there are worse things.
Yeah.
I am sure of it.....
1 Comment
sarah link
6/11/2011 01:38:20 pm

I think it is time for you to choose
the best of the best, get them
stretched, load that van up and
go get scheduled for a show someplace!

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