Overlook Revised

Overlook Revised
Oil on Stretched Canvas, 14" x 18"
Available at $65 plus $10 shipping.



After looking at this one on my wall for a week or so, I decided that it needed to be more "open." There was too much of a claustrophobic feel to it, with all the dark foliage. So today I took my time, tinkered around with it. Made the pink bush bigger, consolidated the foliage, added more sky, cleared some underbrush so more of the field shows. Overall much better. I've dropped the price, since the sky is lumpy, even though I sanded it where the tree on the right covered the sky area.

Still Life in Red and White - SOLD

Still Life in Red and White (Romas, Garlic and Red Pepper)
Oil on Cradled Gessobord, 8" x 8" x 7/8"
SOLD at $32 plus $10 shipping. ($1.00 per square inch)



Detail of painted edge below.
This one is painted all around it's edges, and needs no frame.

Clear Out Sale, New Pricing Structure

Two things to mention today.
One: I had some oral surgery this morning...ouch...so I won't be posting much this week, and what I post will be slloooooowwww, since they gave me some good pain meds, which make me droopy.

Two: I normally listen to videos, sermons, movies, shows...while I paint. And for the past couple of weeks I've been listening to Stefan Baumann. He's a internationally known professional artist, and quite an inspiring teacher. I've been getting a lot out of videos of his classes, where he also interacts with his students, and you get to watch over their shoulders.

So to keep myself going, I'm cleaning out a couple of paintings that haven't sold.

Where Does the Sun Find You?, Stretched Canvas,  8" x 10", SOLD

 Shady Lane, Stretched Canvas, 11" x 14", On Sale at $10 plus $10 shipping.

Summer Creek, Canvas Panel, 12" x 12", SOLD.

Spring Creek, Canvas Panel, 12" x 16", SOLD.

Pick Two or more, and pay shipping once. If you want one or two, just send an email to me at NelVanL@aol.com  to claim.

The other result of watching the Stefan Baumann videos, for ME, is a new pricing structure, very easy, very predictable.  He tells his students to simply charge $2 per square inch minimum for every painting that they do. So an 11" x 14" will be 11 x 14 to get the square inches. 154 square inches times 2= 308. So an 11" x 14" would be priced at $308. Here's the video. Very worth watching. (The bit about this price structure starts at 11:25.)

I already know that it's TOO much of a sticker shock for my collectors. So the new structure for me will be $1 per square inch, in this case $154. Maybe next year $2 per square inch. I'll start with the next painting, see where we go with it. Ready?