This is a bit like falling in love

[ailbhe]

I'm a bit obsessed with the whole paint thing.

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[sfred]

I especially love the little house and the hills. It reminds me of where I'm from.

[submarine_bells]

Looks like you're having a lot of fun with colour! It's really interesting, the effect that different hues can have on otherwise similar scenes. Looks like you've got a nice eye for colour there, too. :-)

[br3nda]

i really really really like this one http://yfrog.com/h0pzixj

[ailbhe]

SKY. I love sky.

[birke]

Me too! It has such an open, glowing feeling.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I love them, especially the second-to-last. Maybe weekend after this for photographing? Unless you'd prefer an evening.

[ailbhe]

We're busy after 4pm on Saturday 22nd and until about 1pm on Sunday 23rd, but otherwise free.

[clarahippy.livejournal.com]

Wow, I wish I could do stuff like this.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Yay painting! Yay bright colours!

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Do you take commissions?

[cat63.livejournal.com]

These are lovely. I think you have a genuine talent.

I especially like the second to last one - that sky is splendid!

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

I love the way you've painted a little house around the corner.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Just what I was thinking!

[ai731.livejournal.com]

*nod* I love the one with the sheep (at least, I think they are sheep) around the corner. My favourite is the tree on the pink&purple landscape.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

My favorite are photos 3 & 4 - the hills with the houses/sheep (it's hard to see small) and the green tree.

Painting is love. I love your paintings.

:)

N.

[ailbhe]

Erk?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I'm not completely sure how to interpret that.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! I especially like the second/third one.

(I am surprised, too! They aren't what I was expecting. I know I love your colour sense, so I was expecting to really like the colours but for them to be more abstract. But not so much! And both the green ones have a lovely sense of depth to them.)

[ailbhe]

I has Teh Fear. What do you mean by commissions?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I say 'paint me a picture' and you do it and I give you some money?

[ailbhe]

I'm afraid to start the abstract ones before I have a much, much bigger tube of red paint. I've ordered one.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

but NOT if it's going to make anything more stressful for you.

[ailbhe]

Do you say what kind of picture? Or maybe give me money for one you already know you like? (None of these are dry yet, they're all drying on the wall).

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I like the bottom one with the red and the tree best. But I like them all actually.

My thought process hasn't got much further than 'I really like these pictures and I want to own one. Or maybe more than one.' I might need to have a think about size and colours and where I'd put them.

[ailbhe]

That's the easiest one for me to do another of, I think!

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

That seems serendipitous. Would you be willing to sell them? How much would you want?

[ailbhe]

In theory, yes, and I don't know. I think materials are about a fiver for that one, ish, inasmuch as one can measure the cost of the paint. They will take about two weeks to dry enough for posting. If the acrylics arrive soon they will dry faster and I could try those. I like doing trees.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Um, you have to make a profit. That's how it works.

[ailbhe]

Ah.

When the acrylics arrive, I will try to paint that one again with them, and work out how long it takes?

[cherade9.livejournal.com]

This! Your skill gets renumeration..

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. Perhaps consult also?

[ailbhe]

LJ poll?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Could work. Or do you know any artists who sell their work professionally?

[ailbhe]

Not outside my family, I don't think. And I'm really not The One Who Is An Artist in my family.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

That might not in fact be the case.

[ailbhe]

I might become addicted to painting little things around the corners.

[ailbhe]

That one looked so much like what I wanted it to look like, when I did it, that I got all overexcited and strange.

[ailbhe]

See thread - I think I do take commissions but am not clear on how I will work it out.

[ailbhe]

One has two houses (one around a corner, with a little tree), and one has a tree with three sheep around the corner.

[taimatsu]

You could talk to L about the problem of charging money for what you make, couldn't you? Isn't she getting her head round that at the moment or has done so recently?

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Paaaaaaaaaint!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Your paintings remind me of your pomes. They are mignon, and perfect in what they are. I would get all excited and strange about them, too!

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's right! I hadn't put the two together, but there's something about a joyful, communicative simplicity and deceptive skill about both.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

WOW!

[rmc28]

Well, add me to the list of people encouraging you to have a think :)

I was thinking that the one with a house and another house around the corner would make a lovely gift for my aunt, who lives in a house a bit like that (nearest neighbour is the other side of the valley, across the river).

And the last two would be fabulous in my mother-in-law's gites.

And that's before I work out where I could make space to hang things in my house ...

1ngi might have an idea about pricing; her recent work on printing is hanging up with a pricetag somewhere locally. Or you could perhaps look at Etsy for price ideas on similar sized paintings? (if it doesn't add to your stress).

(see for example a much less good (IMO) oil-on-box-canvas being sold locally to me: http://www.etsy.com/listing/39942624/true-love-original-expressive-abstract)