Oil Painting

"Fall River"

8" x 10"

I think I will start doing a little more oil painting. This painting was done using a pallet knife on panel. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it - besides I love the smell. I guess I'm just an oil paint junkie.

Our Studio Group meets tomorrow and I'll be slathering more oil around. Perhaps I'll get enough of an inventory to open an eBay store. Been thinking about it. Each time I think about it, they seem to raise their prices on something. Now that makes me feel real comforted. However, I should only look at a store as an additional form of advertising so all in all it would be pretty inexpensive.

I think in order to become a successful artist a person needs to spend about 80% of the time promoting and 20% of the time painting. Of course networking is the name of the game in today's world. Promoting seems to be the hardest part for a lot of artist. Somehow it seems to me that a lot of artist's personalities do not always have that outgoing business personality. What do you think? Should I get a manager? I could always draft my husband, but he'd want to always do it his way. Decisions, decisions.

Paint, paint, paint....

First thing this morning I decided I had better get it in gear and get some painting done. Show time will be here before I know it, and I'll have nothing to show for it but a few left overs. ACEOs that is. These things are way too addictive. I must be firm. I must be strong. I must get to work on other things. However, this is what I finished yesterday and put up on eBay last night.

3.5" x 2.5" SOLD

Iris

Pastel painting of two cats

A Bird?

30" x 24"

pastel on suede board

$720.00

This will be one of my paintings that I'll be taking with me to some of the art shows I'll be going to this season. Most people that see this that have cats can really identify with this painting. There always seem to be some mysterious communication between cats have that attract most of us. This painting is beautifully framed and museum glass has been used to eliminate most of the glare.

I do have several sized of prints for sell that have been very popular.

ACEO

ACEO 2.5" x 3.5" SOLD

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I'm really proud of this little girl. She lasted only 12 minutes before getting her first bid.

My husband is starting to pace the floor wondering when I'm going to start building up my inventory for my shows starting this spring. He thinks this fun stuff is taking away time from my more important (in his opinion) art which is large pastels and oils. He might be right. Maybe I'll work for a couple of hours on some of my larger works and then do a couple of these. Perhaps that will appease the art gods.

What A Stinker

2.5" x 3.5"

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This is another little ACEO card I put up on eBay last night. I am having so much fun with these little cards and the scratch art in particular. I also do larger ones, but you know how eBay is, some things just sell better than others. Anyone interested in viewing some of my larger works, please let me know. linda@lindahiller.com

Another new one....

I'm really trying to get a handle on all this geek stuff can't wait until I'm finally a full fledged computer geek. Of course geek may no longer be the word to use. I may still be out of date.

Anyway, I just signed up with Technorati. I'm hoping it will help to create a little more traffic. If anyone out there has any ideas, let me know. I've also been looking at Blog Explosion. I'm not real sure about that. Loud noises startle me.

Cabin fever

SOLD

Lily 2.5" x 3.5"

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Now I know what it's like to have a true case of cabin fever. I think most of Oklahoma has been declared a Federal Disaster because of our ice storm. So far it's only been psychological, however, I don't have to go out the doggie door to do my business. My poor little dogs. The yellow perimeter in the ice is growing at an alarming rate. Pretty much at the rate the walls of my house are closing in.