In case you are just now tuning in, I am making custom art of a big old country house, south of Farmersville in Tulare County, for my new friend Jane and her husband. They chose the angle they like best, and I was so happy that we both liked the same angle.
They were thinking about an oil painting, and chose the size of 16×20″. They also asked if that was a good size to capture all the details, and on this house, there are many many details. Many.
Honesty is the best policy. I showed them a custom 16×20″ oil painting of a house, and said it was not my best work. This meant that although I did the best I could, it wasn’t something that showed the house or my skills very well. The photos I had for that painting weren’t very helpful, so that may have had something to do with it. Indeed, but also everything was just too small for a paintbrush.
I also showed them a custom 24×30″ oil painting of a house, and said that this was a painting I felt proud of. I was not trying to upsell them at all, only to make it clear that I could do a better job on a larger painting.
Then I told them that I do my best detail work in pencil, so if details are what matter the most, then they will be happiest with pencil.
They chose a 16×20″ PENCIL DRAWING!!
Alrightythen (yes, I always think of this as one word), let’s git-‘er-dun!