05/15/2008 19:29:32

Hi Robin-- re: framing watercolors. Cheap Joe's has these great professional-looking frames called Miller Gallery Frames that come fully assembled WITH acrylic glazing.  You just pop in the matted piece. Check it out.

05/15/2008 06:43:58

Hey Robin - long time no see. Thanks for checking out my newest work. That was the first time I had used that type of taupe linen canvas and I liked the way the unpainted canvas looked with the neutral colors. I hadn't heard of Wolf Kahn before but I checked out his web site and liked it a lot. Less is always more for me. I'm always drawn to the simplistic landscapes and abstract paintings. I keep telling myself I want to do more of that. I can see his influence in a lot of your work. Scuttle member Indigomar has that feel to some of her landscapes too. 

I haven't been on much lately...having Scuttlebutt withdrawl! I've been painting a customer's house all week and every hour I'm not eating or sleeping seems like I'm at her house inhaling paint fumes. When I get home I go into shut down mode. I'm hoping to be done by early next week so I can get back in here and see what's been going on. 

Have a good day...I'm off to paint that old house...

05/13/2008 23:02:14

Yea, I guess it is a brass ring, I was all worked up about the gold stars and got confused.

 

The link took me to the Butt home page, I guess you'd have to cut and past it in the browser 

05/13/2008 21:09:43

Yep, my friend calls his wife's painting a "disease", and he is serious!  Stopped into the studio today for about 3 minutes today, like trying to reach that gold ring...Did you ever have one of those merry-go-rounds where you tried to grab a gold ring?  I felt like I was whizzing by between work and dinner, like I just missed grabbing the gold ring.  And I passed the building 3 times on the job today...

Yes, I am trying all the big VT cities, but they are still small backwater eddies of the art world. The new gallery is in Rutland. I'm tooting my horn here: http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org/

Do you find the national juried shows have helped you?  I can't decide.  Your story about your recent success is an inspiration. I just got the new art calendar, and I should look again for a show the enter.  There are so many weird ones: like 'Call to Malorcians in PA who use red white and blue, $100 for one image. 200 for two.  Maybe I should hold my own jury show!

 

 

05/13/2008 20:42:27

My god two gold stars, I'm envious!  Masking tape?  I just got some froggy tape that isn't supposed to bleed.  You watercolorists are so inventive!

So today 2 people called, my ad (some how?) got picked up by some other paper and I am going to hold my first classes.  I am psyched up.... 

Another crumb....(Or did I already tell you this like three times?)  The gallery wants to give me a solo show, and I am kinda pinching myself to see if I am awake.  

I think that I find I get taken for granted, or at least pigeon-holed in my home town, and getting out allows other people to take me at a new level, appreciate me without any preconceived baggage.  Perhaps people get tired of me or just have a , "Oh I've seen his stuff" attitude that can keep me from being appreciated where I deserve to be given all my hard work.  I have seen this as a school teacher at neighbor schools and now with art.  Maybe I am guilty of this too, not seeing people where there are headed, and relying on what I know of them.  I guess for a lot of folks it might be true that they aren't growing, they really are the same.  But perhaps that is just what holds them in their stuck places. 

05/13/2008 07:53:26

Hi Robin,  I did the Cape Ann paintings from photos, and they are all on one sheet of paper, so I may frame them that way.  What do you think?   Carmela

05/12/2008 23:16:17

HI Robin:  It seems a long time since we've talked!! I got into a painting mode for several days (finished 9 paintings since April 30th).  So I can appreciate all the new and fresh things you are putting together for the coming show!!  I have great confidence in what is to come for you!!! I'm sure it will be great. Barbara

05/12/2008 21:09:04

I AM planning to see PCA on Monday, if all goes well.  I am scheduled to hang a show in Brattleboro the next day, so that means two trips down 91.

 

So having various price points helps.  I am thinking about that, but should be in the studio, not thinking but doing something.....

Do you mat and frame All this?  Or despite what you said about your work showing not so well in plastic, do you wrap some things up anyway?  I am sure I will see how all the artists do this soon enough.

 

Now that I fallen behind making frames, I am learning the hard way to cut my paper to a standard frame size BEFORE getting creative, and it seems 11x15 (quarter sheet) isn't quite standard, but, 11x14 is, and that makes a big difference to the bottom line at the frame shop. 

 

Live and learn, eh?