Eagle Street Condominium

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Size: 8" x 6"
Medium: Oils on Canvasboard


Another Mini HomeScape but this time of my own neighborhood.

Light #2 SOLD

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Size: 24" x 24" x 1.5"
Medium: Oils.


Today we are celebrating the end of my first year of publishing my art blog! (It actually seems much longer than that to me.) This is my 81st posting. During the year I have reported on various topics from eBay listing experiments to useful links to art museums and have posted art ranging from abstracts to folk art. It has been fun and sometimes challenging to produce a painting or collage in time for each week's blog. It has been a year of learning, both about painting and selling and about publishing a blog.

If you happen to be traveling to Santa Fe and will be there May 17-18, you may take the largest ever Eldorado Art Studio Tour. 105 outstanding artists will be exhibiting their new work in- studio. Among the artists displaying works will be my friend Deborah Crafts. To view a sample of her work, click Deborah Crafts. For information on the tour, click here.

I think I have a winner for the mini landscapes marketing name. What do you think of Welcome HomeScapes? Thank you to both my mother and mortgage entrepreneur Jason Katz for thinking of HomeScapes and to Jason for the full title. If you have an idea of your own, get it to me quickly!

Relationships SOLD

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Size: 30" x 24" x 1.5"
Medium: Oils on canvas


Happy Easter.

Mom's - NFS

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Size: 8" x 6"
Medium: Oils on canvas board.


This is my little house in Mission Hills where my mother lives. It's small but there is enough room for her to garden and cook; her two favorite pastimes. This little painting will be her Mother's Day present.

I am now painting these on commission. All I need is a picture of the home and the address. I use the address for a satellite view of the surroundings. This gives me a sense of the area for the compressed, abstracted landscape. These are a blend of folk and abstract styles with a bit of realism. Contact me for pricing.

Please email your ideas for a good product description. I am thinking of: Mini Landscapes; Mini Home Portraits; Little Neighborhoods; Little Home Paintings.

Loft SOLD

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Size: 40" w x 30" h x 1.5" d
Medium: Oils on Canvas

Light SOLD

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Size: 24" x 24 " x 1.5"
Medium: Oils on canvas


For those of you who are artists, our local Artist & Craftsman Supply store has begun offering the 1.5" deep, pre-stretched canvases in many of the larger sizes at quite reasonable prices. These are the best prices I have found on a daily basis. Aaron Brothers penny sales come along twice each year. Although the prices are not quite as low as penny sale prices, (basically 2 canvases for he price of one), they are good enough to keep me going between those sales and I feel less compelled to stock up, which is impractical in a small space. They are also constructed of lighter-weight wood, which makes them much easier to handle. For locations, click this link:
Artist & Craftsman Supply

Transformation SOLD

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Size: 20 x 16 unframed
Medium: Oils and paper on canvas board


I seem to be unable to resist painting with these colors lately. And I have a feelings there are more to come! If you click over to the auction photos you will see what a difference framing a relatively small painting can make to its presence in a room.

The Letter - SOLD

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Size: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Medium: Oils on canvas


Another abstract for this week. Also working on another mini landscape. These are semi abstract but have an identifiable subject. Both styles are fun and I like the variety.

Urban Edge - SOLD

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Size: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Medium: Oils on Canvas



EBay offers an option for buyers called proxy bidding. The buyer allows eBay to bid automatically and incrementally up to his/her maximum. The amounts bid are not visible to the seller. Only manually placed bids are visible to the seller.

Sellers may also place reservers on their items. This is the lowest amount the seller would accept. If an auction has a reserve on it of $200 and a customer bids up to $199 by the end of the auction, there is no sale and the seller does not know what the buyer's highest bid was. The seller sees only the original opening bid.

I also learned when selling with a reserve, the seller can and probably should state the reserve amount in the auction text. This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but that's the way it is.

Hope - SOLD

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Size: 36 x 36 x 1.5
Medium: Oils on canvas.



Sometimes it helps to see a painting in an actual room setting. When I paint larger pieces, such as this one, I like to help shoppers imagine how the colors and size will look in their own spaces.

This week I have painted 3 abstracts which will be posted over the next few weeks. Why did I suddenly switch back from folk art? I like so many styles of art (and I like change).