I stopped by the Silver City Store to check my paintings and encountered an old friend on the deck. He said how much he liked my bridge painting in the store. 
I went inside to do inventory and couldn’t find the bridge, so came back out and asked, “Did you say you ‘like’ the bridge or that you ‘bought’ it?”
He said that he “liked” it, and I told him it had sold. He was disappointed, so I offered to paint it again for him, and he said yes.
Wow. If only every sale was that easy. I went home and immediately began painting, because the Oak Grove Bridge is my favorite subject. (If you have been following this blog for awhile, then you already knew that. If you would like to see more, put “Oak Grove Bridge” in the search bar of the blog and it will give you a stack of old posts to read or to just look at photos, paintings and drawings of the bridge.)
Ooh. As soon as I saw the bottom photo here, I saw some things to correct on the painting.
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I like the pink flowers in the foreground. My Grampa Dixon taught me how to “frame” photographs with trees, branches, bushes, etc. in the foreground, creating a focus on the main subject.
OTOH, pink flowers may not be appropriate for a guy’s commission. What else could you add?
Sharon, those aren’t “pink flowers” – that is Redbud! This is a no-stress-no-decision painting because the customer requested a duplicate of the one that sold.
Your g’pa was right – that was a normal thing that was taught to photographers in the olden days. Now people do weird stuff like tilt the camera on purpose – say what?
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