Sourcing For A Painting.
Post #150I’m back with a vengeance.
So I realize my blog has suffered a bit of late. There has been a lot of adjustments between Mike and I, trying to strike a balance with his health as well as our relationship in regards to it. This has been my preoccupation of late.
But I also have been finishing up the claims information for the $10,000 loss at Omaha. As well as researching art liscensing in my spare time. (There is an agency interested in signing me and since I haven’t the faintest idea on the subject I am trying to familiarize myself with it quickly.) Not to mention just running the gallery which continues to blossom.
But I am ready to get back into the swing of things. I have a painting lined up (in my mind. Nothing down on paper yet.) Several blog posts in the hopper (um. . . again only in my mind) and I think we are back in business.
3 ways I source for a painting.
As I am pawing through a large stack of photos trying to select which one I am going to do, I thought about the various ways I go about accomplishing getting the resource to begin a painting.
I have three tried and true ways and they are as follows:
1. I have an idea and then locate my reference photos. Like I did with my zebra thumnail.
2. I have a great photo and think this will make an excellent painting. Like with my Alborozo photo.
3. I have a desire to do something (like a rhino) and flip through possibly hundreds of photos to see if any of them fires up a creative spark.
In this case I am working with #3. I have agreed to do a painting for a worthy cause. I have collected the reference photos and now it is up to me to create a painting out of them. The image needs to be something I am proud of as well as something they can sell and raise some cash.
I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow.
