Thank you for visiting my gallery. With the lunar eclipse last night -- I thought that would be a nice painting to... have posted. I like your work and happy to read that you are ready to pursue an income from art...you have a talent.

Nice to hear from you.  If you would like to see closer up of my yellowstosne piece my website is www.patschermerhorn.com  and you can see it a bit better.  It does have a bit of blue watercolor wash underneath.  I do that with blues in particular.  I use mostly micron pens size 005 which is the smallest point they have.  Also prismacolor has new pens out the same size and they have better colors but not as nice a pens and they do not last near as long as the Micron.  I always used Rapidograph but these are just much easier and I am lazy.  If you ever get to Jackson Hole slide on through the park to Cody.  We have a couple of Pleine Air outings in September.  Tkhey are through a fellow artist who has a B and B and she gets them going.  www.robinsnestcody.com  for details.  Also I am giving a workshop in Maine in October on the pointillism and drawing horses.  This is on a Horse Farm and will be able to sketch live models.  I am so looking forward to that.  I am sure you are tired of hearing about me so good luck.  I am out the door to go to the studio. 

Thank you for your comments about my painting Spring, selliot. I am just finishing spring II, but the origional birds nest is one of a kind. My friends sister was dying and Kelly had a dream.  His sister disappeared over a mountain but a robbin, flying overhead could looked down at Kelly as if to say, she is fine, I can still see her.  She passed a few days later.

When we returned to Kelly's property that summer (spring in the Sierra) a Robin had made a nest in camp next to the foot bridge by the cabin. The baby birds were at eye level.  The mom Robin hung in there despite the sudden influx of people coming for the fourth of July gathering. I snapped the photo's and knew the nest I had started a month prior was made for these baby Robins.  The painting is 48"x48".

 Cheers,

Jude 

Where is Monmouth? Funny name

Thanks for the nice comments.  I'm not sure I did the Haast river valley (New Zealand) justice but I was happy with the painting.

In your 'About Me' you say you like finding human features in trees.  I don't know if you have Crape Myrtle trees where you are but if you get a chance to see them (we have them in Virginia Beach) they look like arms and legs and bodies - very sensual.

Thanks for stopping by Forgotten Heritage.  Dancers is a wire sculpture photographed against a black background.  I will get some more photos of sculptures up in the next few days.

I like your work a lot.  Especially the cat peeking out of the quilt above.

I appreciate the comments about my work. I used to think artists had to choose a title and stick with it, but after reading The Artist's Way and getting feedback and encouragement from my wife, clients, friends and other artists, I've realized I don't need to limit myself to anything. No limits keeps things interesting for me. If you walk the same direction down the same road, you never know where you could have gone. So I'm going to do whatever comes to me at the moment. And you should too.

One word of advice on selling...if you don't believe the value of your work, then no one else will either. Be proud of what you do, put what you think is a fair price on it, and sell it. You have plenty of talent (excellent detail work!). Now all you need to do is believe in it.