Color Photography and Painting

Wow!  I feel like I've been sniffing darkroom chemicals!  We got HIGH SPEED INTERNET!  Cowabunga!  Everything is so fast!  I love it.  It's not to say that it was an easy install mind you, but I have to say the AT&T service woman hung in there and got it done despite the complicated wiring of our house, and we are so happy!

Yesterday I did start painting.  I can't really say what it was or is, as someone I know might read this and I want it to be a surprise.  I will say that I am trying this new SouthWest painting style.  Maybe you've seen it.  It's done in bright, primary colors which can be hard for me as I'm in the black and white world!  I'm using water colors and it's progressing very well.  I will go back and put another layer to give it some more depth, and then I still have the background to do.  I worked on that until around 9:00 p.m. last night.  I might have to do a couple of photo transfers now that I'm in the painting mode.

Today I'll go drop off my two new framed images to High Hand Gallery.  And later today I need to update the High Hand Gallery FB page.  I'm behind on that one because I didn't have Internet access on my computer.  And then I need to send off my JPEGS to the Blue Moon!

I know I previously talked about enlarging my work, you know making the images bigger.  And I did do that with going to large gallery wraps.  However, I've calmed down a bit in regards to the 'size' of my images after I came across a few more quotes from the Lenswork magazine:

"Bigger prints are not always better, but better prints are always better."

"It is not the size of the print that counts, but the 'size' of the impact it makes on the viewer's brain/heart that matters."

"To give away ten prints is more rewarding that to sell one.  But, to sell ten prints is more rewarding than to give away one!"

And last weekend I did give away about ten prints to the other artists participating in the High Hand Gallery Shed Sale, and it did feel good!  In galleries and/or museums not all of the photography is large by any means.  In fact, in my opinion, I kind of wonder what truly makes them think some of the photographic images are worthy to be hung in the first place!  But - hey - that's me.  Here's one of the framed images that sold last weekend!  I took this photo of our fall leaves from our fruitless pair trees.  It was taken early in the morning and no adjustments/manipulations were made.