Window and Shingles

Backing up a bit…. this is the painting I did yesterday afternoon before the gallery opened. It went into the exhibition which is open to the public now and has its evening reception in about two hours from now, so Im hoping it will sell. Im very pleased with it.

The first Four on the wall

Yesterday morning I selected these four to be the first to go on the wall for the private view last night at 5pm…. By 5.30 only the one bottom right was unsold.
This morning I was up at 5 to prep for the 2 hour "Quick Paint" event in Fish Creek. Spent two hours working on my composition, drawing and redrawing my thumbnails and vacillating between the safe route on 12" x 16" paper and the ambitious, 30" wide panel that I had prepared with coarse Gesso. The issue being that I wanted it to be all about the striking graphics and the horizontal clapboard, but a 30 inch by 10 inch painting in 2 hours would demand a different approach to detail and linework.
Its been such a great week here and I sold so well last night at the opening so on the one hand I feel like I've proved myself and have no need to be conservative, but on the other hand…..its a VERY public event and at the end of it all its going to be exhibited, talked about and auctioned live in front of a large crowd of collectors, so the excruciating embarrassment of doing something that no one likes is a very real fear for me.
So I went with the risky 30 x 10.
Bidding started at $400 and the hammer came down at $1750. I am thrilled with the week, I have three left in the gallery for tonight's opening to the public, I've posted everything that Ive painted, and I think its time to sign off and sleep for an hour before I dress for the show.

Fish Creek Market, watercolor, ink and collage on panel, 30 x 10