Loser to Best

This little painting was a loser because it wasn’t good enough for anyone to part with his hard-earned dollars, despite the fact that my works sells for prices that won’t scare anyone.

It is titled “Tulare County’s Best”, and although it shows what I believe to be the best that our rural Central California county offers, it wasn’t my best work.

It was my best plein air work at the time, because I was new to that style of painting.

But plein air painting isn’t my best work. 

Shut up about “best”!

I repainted it, and here it is, now deserving of its title.

Tulare County’s Best, 8×10″, oil on wrapped canvas, $125

OF COURSE IT LOOKS BETTER IN PERSON.

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4 Comments

  1. Yes, much improvement! In its original completion it was a very nice rendition for that genre. However, I never was a plein air fan; I like my painting to look like its subject (so you can imagine what my opinion of Picasso and his peers is)!

    • Sharon, I have such bewilderment about that loosey-goosey sloppy made-up color type of painting. Lots of people love it, but I am just perpetually puzzled. Maybe it would be fun to try painting that way, but I think most of the people in my life would wonder if I had experienced a stroke.

      • Lots of people like Dali and Picasso, but I’m perpetually puzzled, too! And if you did come up with one of those ugly shape/color/sticks/circles paintings I would send the Cavalry to rescue you from your kidnapper!

        • Or the men in white coats to take me away. . .


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