Selling Watercolour
Watercolour has a lot going for it as a medium for painting. One great advantage is the ability to ‘crop’ a painting. When painting on a canvas or wooden panel you are committed to the size from the onset, not so with paper. I have many times painted an A3 painting only to be unhappy with the composition, or maybe a part of the scene that didn’t work out right. Easy peasy – get a scissors and cut it to a smaller size. I usually get a smaller mount and move it around the painting until I find a frame that works!
The images above are a point in question. On hearing of the passing of Gordon Lightfoot I wanted to paint the wreck of the Edmund FitzGerald. I was not happy with the painting (top) so I cut it down (bottom) to a smaller image. The result is a better composition (in my opinion) I’ll sell it cheaper – but that’s better than binning it. I’ll have it with me at my next pop up art fair, which reminds me …
The season (2023) kicks off with a pop up art fair at Mountain View, Ballyhale on the 28th May. The following weekend I’m at the Clancy Brothers Art and Music Festival at Carrick on Suir – I’ll have a full exhibition of my work in the conference room at the Nano Nagle centre. This exhibition will be of work not previously shown in Carrick.
Ill keep y’all posted about other happenings (on Facebook) but do try to catch my exhibition at the concert Hall, Thomastown in August (TCAF / Kilkenny Arts Week). I will be showing some of my most recent work there – the exhibition is called Watervision.
