{"id":698,"date":"2023-05-21T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T19:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2023-05-21T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T19:16:43","slug":"flexible-approach-to-composition-hack-cropping-your-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booleyart.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Flexible approach to composition hack- cropping your painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Selling Watercolour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watercolour has a lot going for it as a medium for painting. One great advantage is the ability to \u2018crop\u2019 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\u2019t 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019ll sell it cheaper – but that\u2019s better than binning it. I\u2019ll have it with me at my next pop up art fair, which reminds me \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The season (2023) kicks off with a pop up art fair at Mountain View, Ballyhale on the 28th May. The following weekend I\u2019m at the Clancy Brothers Art and Music Festival at Carrick on Suir – I\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ill keep y\u2019all 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selling Watercolour Watercolour has a lot going for it as a medium for painting. One great advantage is the ability to \u2018crop\u2019 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t