While the weather is still changing swiftly outdoors, my studio blossoms in full force. Spring flowers are in bloom!
Art is timeless, it can easily survive us. Art is a gentle reminder that we never know everything and we are here just to learn and to give our skills to others.
We are adding new projects practically weekly, and I am finalizing some paintings at least twice a week. Light is great during the day and days are becoming longer, too. I am not sure how much brighter the light should be for video recording. It is very sufficient when painting, but for video recording it is still not enough as it appears.
Doing is better than watching
My personal point is, nobody has ever learned anything by watching others do it. We can either paint or draw, or watch others paint. It’s pretty much so that we cannot do both at the same time. I would say, if you want to learn, just go for it. Everybody damages many watercolor papers and paints over previously painted canvas many times and until they manage to use the brush properly, as well as understand what colors they like and how to create them.
What is important
It was never about how to paint or draw an apple, or one particular flower, or one particular landscape. Painting and drawing is a skill which follows certain principles and teaches one to become efficient with decision making.
No need to be afraid
It is silly to be afraid of damaging paper or canvas. While we learn, we are in process of discovering so many aspects of our subject. This is a path which involves many sideways and much blundering around until we find the right way for us.
White and yellow daffodils, watercolor
Trillium forest, watercolor on paper, one of my recent watercolor painting projects. It is so lovely to paint fresh greens!
This was an amazing project, and we really enjoyed creating dark background around the white blossoms.
More spring flowers from previous projects
That’s what I do every spring: disappear in flowers until it is time to start digging and planting seeds in the soil.
Enjoy the spring blossoming and lovely colors of flowers. This subject really works well using any medium, but especially watercolor, thanks to speed and fast coverage of large areas.
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Beautiful art work. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks James! I am just trying to get more visibility and promote my art in any way I can.
Really beautiful paintings.
Thank you! I hope they will be loved so much that some get sold. I’m away this week, but I will add some on sales page soon.
The creating is the easy bit. The selling is always the hard and painful part. It is the lot of all artists and ever will be so. One just needs the right person to open the door at the right time. Don’t loose heart. Happy painting.
Well, that’s true. I am not very worried because I sell some here and there, but it could be way more taking into amount the huge numbers of paintings. I just love drawing and painting a lot, getting older, too, and I was always a freelancer in Canada, although, I have 4 Master’s degrees. I relocated from Latvia in 2004 and never had a real job here, other than working for myself and freelancing in medical writing.
How about approaching galleries with a portfolio of your work? Always carry your portfolio (iphone with your website0 or something similar around with you and pop into galleries wherever you visit to talk to owners and curators. Make sure it fits into a bag that is easily carried. How about online galleries etc.; or maybe create your own gallery within your blog with regular exhibitions days – say once a month. Just a few suggestions; maybe you are already doing this. Happy Painting.
I have had gallery exhibitions and I have a solo show right now. Any gallery, even online, charges between 30-50% percent and I have to ship the art.
Shipping is the killer in Canada because it is really high.
I am selling most often from this website, sometimes from Facebook, but most often from studio.
Thanks very much for your comment. I just finished a private class, will rest a bit.
Hi. Happy Tuesday. You are doing all the right things. In the meantime enjoy your art and creativity. Have a great day.
Thanks! I’ve been doing this except blogging for about 45 years, so, I should have learned something along the way.
The problem with sales is people, who nowadays wait for some guide or adviser to tell them that a painting is good, they absolutely do not trust their own preferences.
The same goes for website ranking and any other site art ranking.
I have a painting, large watercolor still life from 2008, and it was easy those times to get something noticed. So, this painting has many thousands of views and comments and all that stuff. I have painted numerous better things during the following years, however, that particular painting always gets new and new views and comments and my current and better ones do not get even seen.
That’s very unfortunate and that’s how it goes.The ranking of everything is extremely biased. That refers very much to blogging, too. I’ve read excellent blogs with little following and total nonsense blogs with very high number of followers. Basically, you will be given if you have, and you will be taken away if you don’t.
I’m heading out today, I will probably need to spend the most part of the day on the road, I have to see my surgeon again. It’s nothing crazy this time, still needs attention.
Have a good day, too.
There seems to be no easy ‘one fix’ answer. One has to remain philosophical about it and just move on and not worry about it. As a friend of mine once said to me ‘People who worry die; we die anyway; so why worry.’ Not a too depressing outlook I hope for you on your hectic day. Hope it goes well with your surgeon. Keep painting.
Thanks James! I stopped worrying some 20 years ago. I’m so old now that nothing surprises me.
My philosophy is more described on my other blog; https://inesepogalifeschool.com/
I basically keep painting always. I also have to prepare September show. I want more watercolors right now, maybe later I will do more acrylic again. I worked a lot for this show, it was all large and very large acrylics. I give many private classes, many regular classes, yes, stock market crashing and my gold stocks going up. I am positioned for this crash and I will benefit from all other stocks deteriorating a lot.
You know, I just allow things to unfold at the moment.
Art is something extremely meaningful, I don’t really care whether it is in demand or not because the process has been so great.
Ok, getting ready, it’s almost 9.30 am, have to run.
Great. As ‘they’ say (whoever ‘they’ are) ‘go with the flow’. In my old age, like you, I have learned many lessons from life and I just enjoy the day and take whatever it brings. Happy Tuesday.
Thanks! I do allow events to flow sometimes, but I never go with the flow of masses. Never. I think I am always in opposition. I’m out of the door, take care
Ditto. Cheers.
One must always be true to oneself. Cheers.
Just returned from doctor’s, will have surgery on 10th. But certainly one has to be true to themselves, it’s just too bad that many people pretend a lot.
I love all of your studio blooms
Thanks, I appreciate you left this nice comment. I hope everybody loves spring and spring flowers!
Your studio is a source of joy and encouragement.
Thanks very much! That means I’m doing something right.
How lovely to enjoy spring all year round. Beautiful, as always.
Thanks Jo-Anne! That the fantastic thing about creating a drawing or painting: you take the blank canvas and white sheet of paper and you put on it anything you want, anything. I long for greens a lot, I really need that color right now.
this is bright. I like it.
Thanks Jim! My art is always sunny. I developed this color scheme some 40 years ago when it started as a protest against purely grey and brown/black shades which were dominant in Latvian art at that time. I moved to Canada in 2004, and found out that many artists are also using grey/black/brown a lot. While I love grey shades, I do a lot of much brighter landscapes and floral/still life pieces. My paintings do not contain true black, intentionally.
interesting.
I think it might be, we are all different and there are so many ways to creativity.
different is good. life would be so bland if we were all the same
Exactly! That’s why it’s worth trying.