Here’s a new piece. Honest to God, I don’t know where this stuff comes from, sometimes. It’s like this: I bought (charged) an Epson Stylus Pro 3880 printer a couple of weeks ago. I want to sell prints of my works, and if I have to pay someone else to make the prints, I have to price them too high. So I wanted to get my own professional printer. But the Epson was NOT cheap. So now, if an idea comes to me for a new piece, and it seems like it might actually be a good seller, too, and might help get this machine paid for, well, that’s very good. So I was mulling over what might work, and the idea for this new piece seemed like just the thing. What kind of surprised me, though, is that I really got into it. You might expect that work on this would be kind of an “ok let’s do a marketable thing” kind of chore, but no — I just loved it. I have no idea whether it will sell or not, but it sure was fun. And archival fine art prints of this piece, made most beautifully by the Epson, are available at my new store, At Home On Earth.
Parts of the process weren’t easy, though. It is important to say that doing a piece which has a fine air of ease and spontaneity sometimes requires a lot of tough preparatory practice work. This went through four or maybe five first drafts. But a lot of it was pretty free improvisation, even after, or maybe because of, all that.
"Let's Make Music Together." Pen, ink, and a little watercolor on Arches watercolor paper. 14.25 by 19.75 inches.
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