I have decided to make all kinds of resolutions, even though I may not keep 90% of them. If I keep one, I am ahead, eh? I think so. Actually, I have made six main ones, one of which is to make art every day, even if it is just five minutes working on a piece. So far, this year, I have kept all my resolutions flawlessly. LOL! Just kidding! The first day I messed up, but I am going to keep on trucking.
I have finally begun my latest portrait commission. I decided to do it in colored pencil and needed to do some practice with other things before I began. I am making it on a 12×16 piece of hot press watercolor paper with oil based colored pencils. This initial sketch is done with a very light brown pencil. I worried that I would not get the likeness or the loving look shared between them, but I am excited to say that I think I got it! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture! LOL!
Of course, it is not perfect (and never will be), but it is pretty good for a start. My next chemo treatment is this Thursday. I hope I get some work done on it before then. It may be a couple of weeks after my treatment that I am able to work on it again.
Also, I have updated my Fine Art America Shop. At first, I only had the free shop, which only allowed me to upload 25 pieces for sale. I finally decided to bite the bullet, which turned out to be not that big of a bullet, and pay for the unlimited uploads. So, I have uploaded over 200 pieces AND I put them in collections to, hopefully, make it a little easier on shoppers. Recently, I actually had a sale and it was very encouraging. I don’t know who it was, but if you are reading this, Thank You. Fine Art America does not reveal the identity of customers.
Well, I am off to do laundry, then make my man some lunch, and then get to work on this portrait. Yay! I hope you all have a wonderful, productive, art-filled year. The quote below is from my devotions this morning. That is one of my resolutions. The photo is from a walk on the Kokosing Trail in Mount Vernon, Ohio, when we lived there.
Grant, O Lord, that from this hour I may know only that which is worthy to be known; that I may love only that which is truly lovely; that I may praise only that which chiefly pleases you; and that I may esteem what you esteem, and despise that which is contemptible in your sight! Suffer me no longer to judge by the imperfect perception of my own senses, or of the senses of men ignorant like myself; but enable me to judge both of visible and invisible things, by the Spirit of truth; and, above all, to know and to obey your will. Amen. – Thomas a Kempis
Virginia C. McCoy Fine Art 