Recent content by WFMartin

I'm enjoying all these comments! ;)

Wow. I've got indoor/outdoor thermometers in three rooms of my house, each of which also tell time, a stove clock, a microwave clock, a car clock, a kitchen wall clock, a battery wall clock in my art room, my computer, as well as a grandfather clock in my living room. Of course, my cellphone...

Well, I'm surely not a Rolex enthusiast, and wouldn't have owned this one, had it not been presented to me as a gift for loyal service at the company for which I was employed. It's a "rich man's 'toy'" alright, and that is evident in in the cost just to clean it. I won't be doing that, and...

Years ago, I received from the lithographic company for which I worked for 20 years, a Rolex wristwatch. I believe that it is some version of an "Oyster". I wore it with pride for several years (not very many, actually), until it began to not tell the correct time, As I recall, it runs "slow"...

An age-old suggestion regarding the photographing of human beings is that the subjects should be engaged in doing something, rather than merely looking into the camera. It is usually considered much more appropriate to have the subjects casting their eyes toward the item that is holding their...

I like it, but I'm. finding it difficult to determine where your art truly "ends'. Is that corrugated background part of the actual art, or is is merely something upon which you laid your art for photographing. Those petals that extend over that corrugation won't be there in the final art...

Sorry, but I am not familiar with M. R. James. H. P. Lovecraft has generally been my favorite for those types of stories. But, I can understand your desire to paint scenes from such literature. I would love to create a painting based upon "Pickman's Model" from H. P. Lovecraft, but I'm not...

Gosh, that's a really fine painting! Congratulations on your sale!

This is really excellent advice!

Artyczar, That sounds like good advice. And, with a progression similar to mine. The newcomers need to get their art in front of the browsing, and buying public, and there are many more places than that which galleries offer for accomplishing such a goal

On another thread (perhaps the one dealing with joining art societies), I also recommended hanging your art in specific business locations. Such establishments as Doctor offices, coffee shops, restaurants, hotel lobbies, barber shops, beauty salons, pet stores, are quite wonderful places tp...

Yes, that is true. However, you must balance that fee for entering your art against the possibility of selling a piece of it, OR perhaps receiving a cash award (if they offer cash awards at that show). For example, the last show I entered required, $25 entry fee apiece for my paintings. I...

The involvement of a "third party" is a sure sign that it's a scam. Don't fall for it. In one scam that was tried on me, the third party who was to pay me was the truck driver.

I belonged to an "art club" in our area, and I found it to be not only interesting, and informative, but our club also had an art show about twice a year, depending upon where we could find a venue for our art. I was the VP, in charge of programs. "Programs" primarily included my hiring of...

Haha......Yeah, that's the truth!