The Life we Paint
The Life we Paint is a newsletter idea I had about sharing art, stories and ideas.
The concept is simple, you submit a photo and a little about it and I’ll paint it for FREE! I’ll then email you a high resolution printable file of the painting. If you love it and really want the original oil painting I will ask you pay me $200.
Each week I’ll send out an email about the painting or paintings I did that week. I’ll Share your stories, if you shared anything with me. Talk about my process and the experience and even share behind the scenes or making of videos in hopes that we have a dialogue. I’d like to build a community here. I’ll never try selling you something through these emails. They’re going to be personal discussions and sharing paintings. Thats it.
Sometimes I work direct from the photo, sometimes I riff off the text the person sent, sometimes I find myself frustrated and making a mess, but it always results in an interesting journey. I try to limit how long I work on these, this is meant to be a fun side project, I still have commission work I have to take care of during the week so the time limit is a big challenge and one that I think is really good for me.
I tend to work and live in the details, small writing, small brush strokes so working with a time limit has forced me to loosen up a bit and work with larger brushes and embrace messes and imperfections. I feel like all these lessons can carry over into my normal work helping me improve how I see things, how I paint or draw and figure out what is absolutely necessary in order to get a message across versus what isn’t all that critical to the image.
I also tend to favor certain palettes so getting random photos makes me work in colors that I normally don’t work in expanding my thinking and how I use color overall. I’ve also been getting more interested in the narrative quality of art and telling stories through it so I’ve been trying to find ways to get some story telling into these projects. It doesn’t always work but the goal is there!
Here are a couple of the paintings I’ve done for this project so far. I’m really looking forward to painting something for you so sign up and lets get this started!
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