Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

MAKE LEMONADE PAINTING -ACEO

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And now for something completely different.... In the past I've only listed ACEO cards based on my art and photography. I used mat board, collaged with art papers...print my photographs on regular, photo, and some pretty darn unusual things ...than put it all together and make a complex card attached to an emotion, feeling or experience.

The simple things in life are beautiful as well... Things with visual simplicity. One thing...Two maybe...just a few colors... No art papers... Something you can put a story to, instead of me.... I paint. I rarely list anything on ebay that isn't an ACEO card done in the manner I described above because...well, frankly they don't seem to sell very often. (Just keeping it real!) There are wonderful artists on ebay and perhaps my selling just the cards...or just paintings...without an attached emotion isn't the same. Maybe people would rather I stick to what I was doing but I had to try... I have this thing in my head... My artist-self - how I see myself as an artist - is wrapped up in my abilty to paint...or not.... and well, if I can, I am, if I can't I'm not...and...oh man, I didnt mean to make this listing a therapy session!

Enough of that! This card is done on a teeny sized gallery wrappy canvas. How do they make them??? Its 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches and I even took a picture of it with a spenda package so you can see what your getting if your not familar with how small aceo's are. The other picture shows it from the side and you can see there are sides :) I have since painted the sides a bright blue like I paint my larger canvas paintings. I have signed it on the front with 3 bars... and on the bottom with my last name. Its sealed with a matte acrylic sealer. As much as I try to get colors correct, its hard in photography... and all monitors are different as well. It may be different when you get it but no matter how it looks on your monitor...I promise the lemons are shades of yellow and the background is shades of blue.

If it doesnt sell... well, thank you for looking!! I have other aceo's listed... My usual kinds as well as a few more like this!

Monday, May 5, 2008

Blue Hawaii...



















Contact tracyreinhardt.art@gmail.com for purchase information
Unframed $ 75.00

This is the first of my 6 inch x 6 inch mixed media/acrylic paintings on masonite that I'm posting. I've decided to call it 'Blue Hawaii' because -well, it is blue ...and for me there is nothing better than Hawaii...and for an abstract is does ring beach. At least to me.

Photographing these squares have been very difficult and I may switch over to a matte fixative, the gloss is a nightmare to photograph and frankly, even for viewing at angles a matte would be better.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Black sands


Not for sale
I'm happy with this painting. It's one of the first I'm really very happy with. The subject makes me happy and I'm also happy with how it came out.

What doesn't thrill me is my problems photographing the artwork. That is a work in progress....

6 " x 6" acrylic on masonite


A detail close up of the clouds












... and shore line....









I've been looking a lot at the daily painting sites. I think I may have to start listing in order to continue my own daily painting obsession. Perhaps the paintings aren't ready but I can always go back to selling photography and ACEO's

Monday, March 17, 2008

Attack of cuteness...








Some days the simplest things make me feel good - a pink pen... A new cell phone charm... a post card... Some day it takes a whole tsunami of cute to work out life's kinks.
On days like that I'm glad 'cute' is so reasonably priced.
If only all the world's ills could be cured by some glitter...