FALL IMAGES
BIRD DOGS FALL HUNT
Gouache Patch Design
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
Gouache
Two more images for prints on ImageKind. The hunt image is called a patch design and has small focus points over the painting. There are quail, pheasant, and a little rabbit. Oh, yes, a rabbit. Now, let’s see if those dogs hold their point! HA HA The elaborate turkey is a Thanksgiving gobbler and he is centered in a field of pumpkins with a border of fall leaves and cornucopia.
Images for PRINTS
I love bunnies and I love them to have tea in the images of my mind; but as they say, that ain’t all there is, Babe! I am currently putting rustic hunt images into my Gallery in ImageKind. The pictures below are an example of the work I am preparing for ImageKind. Although, ImageKind is a great place for prints, I am preparing to sell all the images in my portfolio and these are among the group which I will be posting in a short while. So if you are interested in the Rustic Woods Collection, as a potential buyer or just for curiosity, I would love to hear from you. 
WILDLIFE IN FALL
Gouache
Painted in 1995 and presented for licensing. Taken from the Rustic Woods Collection.
LODGE FISH CAMP
Gouache
This painting was done in 2002 and is in the Rustic Woods Collection.
TEA TIME
TEA TIME
Gouache
Available as a card in A La Mode
This image was painted in about 1987. I did not know to make transparencies of my images at that time. Transparencies were the only way to save images which were used for reproduction purposes. As a result the only thing I have today is a transparency of a print! ARG Yes, I scanned in the print when I got my Epson Expression 1640 XL in 2000 but without extensive work the image was only good as an example. I used it as one of my cards during the 80’s and as a print when I created my card and print line at that time. When I started going to the SURTEX in 1990/91 I presented the original image and sold it. There ya go — gone forever. So to try and rework the scan was a rather tedious adventure that has taken me several days. I am not sure that it is as it should be yet because I am not really all that knowledgeable in Photoshop; however, I went over most of it, 98% of it, and this is the result. I reworked it at 200 and 300% of the original. Here is the way it looks from the scan of the print.
SCAN FROM OLD PRINT, TEA TIME
Untouched
SpringTime
SPRINGTIME
Pen and Ink with Gouache Coloring
Patch Design
My learning curve is a nightmare; is a steady companion; is a ball and chain.... And I could go on and on about the problem. Well, I am taking this image and have placed it for cards in A LA MODE.It looks great. But trying to learn all of this and produce is not what I am accustom to having to contend with. Ah, but now I can always know that I have a very close GRIPE that will be with me for a long time. Company. Yes, company to keep me obsessively pressing against the limitation that not knowing BEANS about computers and how they work until one day when I just glide over the process and do it all right the first time.
Now, for the Twitter thing. I have the idea. I see what is happening. I love the mix. I have found a number of people with whom I have something in common and a beaucoup of them who are like the fish in the ocean. There are unreal numbers of guys involved with marketing and they are the ones who seem to be using the program most successfully not attaching to someone they find interesting but to anyone who’s game. Well, that is what it’s about, isn’t it? I, too, need to reach a large mass of people who do stuff on line. I am selling. Well, I am if I could get my ducks all in a row. So as soon as I reconfigure the widget to go on this site, that will be on less duck to worry about. I am making sales by default on CafePress and I need to get in there and make things move. The Twitter is now an access to more people and I think I will follow the guys who are gaining followers by the hundreds.
Still have to get the ducks lined up!
Exercise #2 Painting
This is going to be interesting. I have to do a minimum of 50 of these warmups before I reach the place I feel like I will be able say that I am painting once more. This is like having been on the desert for 4 years and you’ve just reached the sand dune that is looking more like the oasis. I’ll be glad when I reach the oasis.
Big People Take Time
BRUSH IN PAINT
Getting Ready for New Program
I have watched Karin Jurick’s work and she is my inspiration. Her recent posting of “In Like a Lion” is the closest point to where my mind is and I need to baptize myself once more in the movement of paint. The boldness of stroke and color specks directly to my heart.