“Garden Fantasy” Size: Whatever you want it to be
A friend of mine asked me what I would do if someone wanted to buy one of the paintings from the “Sketchbook”. They don’t exist. But they are no different from my actual sketchbook where I use pencil to do sketches of upcoming paintings. They are just in a lot more detail than my pencil sketches.
Though, I have to note, I can’t add the special effects in my paintings. My little fairies will have to glow in the imaginations of my clients.
And over the years, I’ve done many paintings that existed initially in the minds of collectors who had an idea they wanted me to create a painting from. The one hurdle there was that when I’d get a commission, I knew they had an image fully formed of what it would look like. No matter how hard I tired, it was not going to be possible for me to recreate an idea from their head. It was just not possible. With this, I could possibly build a painting before hand to show what it would look like. And see how close the ideas were.
So for me, I see the possibility of using this as a very detailed sketch for a upcoming painting. I’ve actually been very lucky with my commissions though, I must say. In the almost, *yikes* , thirty-five years I’ve been at this, I had only one commissioned work that was not acceptable. I have had to tweak a painting here and there but the one that was summarily rejected came after the request that I change the color of the sky. That was pretty much the one thing that I couldn’t do. Oh well! One out of 1,291. Not bad.
The fascination for me in using this to put my ideas down in, is that I can go back and remove entire elements of them or moving sections of the background, making them larger to add elements, and all without recreating the whole painting. It is a very different process for me.
And lately, for me at least, the art business is anything but entertaining. So to have a new toy to use , the program and the tablet I am learning, has put some of the fun back in my work.
And, as if to prove my point, I am looking at this image and criticizing the fact that there are two purple flower and two orange ones as well. That won’t do. Not to worry! I can fix that easily.
