Here's my newest painting--still in progress. I'm thinking of calling "Be Still My Heart" as it's from a photo of my sister who was killed in a car accident in Nice, France, at the age of 25. She was a gorgeous and talented girl and we all miss her dearly. And she was very beautiful, in appearance and in spirit. If you have any alternative suggestions for a title let me know at elaine@ElaineWatts.com. And, just a reminder, that I'll be closing this blog down very soon in favour of the blog on my website, so if you want to sign up for my mailing list there (www.ElaineWatts.com) I'll send out my blogs to you as I post them.
The other photo is of my "booth" at the Maple Ridge Art in the Park Show. Saturday was glorious, sun (after so long in Vancouver we'd almost forgotten it!), a beautiful temperature, and I stretched my paintings outside the gazebo for everyone to enjoy. Sunday, however, was a different story! After being lulled into complacency by Saturday's weather AND the current forecast, I set up everything as per the day before. About 11:30, it proceeded to rain and EVERYTHING had to go back under the roof--and quickly! There it sat for the rest of the afternoon, which did brighten up about 3 pm but not enough to risk moving everything again!
Still, I sold 2 originals and could have sold 3--the middle painting on the right side was sold Saturday and on Sunday someone else came back to buy it. Sorry she waited! That's happened to me a few times--people have liked something, then phoned the next day, and the painting they liked is gone. If I knew ahead of time I'd paint doubles!
The other news I have is that "Reaching for a Star", the silk mermaid, has been professionally scanned at My Art Channel and is available to be printed, any size (well, I think they limit out at about 10 feet across), onto quality art paper or even canvas. Contact me for quotes if you like the painting. It can be viewed on my own website or, you can see some more of my paintings at my mini-website at www.ElaineWatts.MyArtChannel.com . There's the potential for yet another blog for me on that site too, but I think I'll stick with the one on my own website (with supplements here, to transition, for the summer). All the technology & time involved with websites and keeping them updated is rather daunting to a techno-peasant like me at times, but I'm getting used to it!
