5/11/19 #94 thru #101 Eight Tiny Paintings, Refrigerator Magnets

Who says art needs to be framed?  Teeny tiny 2 inch square canvas boards were found on the Blick Art Supply website.....and adhesive magnetic strips were found on Amazon....voila, better quality magnetic canvases than what I found at Walmart.  I've been on a painting hiatus, life has been eating up all my free time, though I can't quite name what all it was that got in the way (besides work, and trying to get flowers planted, trying to get the house a bit cleaner for arriving guests, trying to finish my decoupage "Scotch and Cigars" puzzle for Father's Day....ok, so I can name it all).  But it is Mother's Day weekend, and I decided I wanted to paint.  I was going to paint the back side of the old red truck, but ended up distracted with these cute little magnet canvases.  Of these 8 little projects, Batman (of course) is still my favorite subject, although I like the Chickadee and School Bus too.

I had my stuff set up this morning at the Farmer's Market and got rid of 4 paintings!  Two were sold, two were traded.  I sold #36 and #37 - the wrapped canvas Pear sold to an adult woman, she selected it quickly so it must have spoke to her; and Batman IV, the pose with one eye squinted, sold to a young girl who really wanted #20 (the 8x10 of Batman) but her Dad said no, that it was too big....they left, then they came back and she went searching for Batman again in the stack of paintings and found a smaller version of Batman, and being the smart girl that she was told her Dad that since the other painting was too large, then this one must be just right.  He was thus obligated to purchase it for her.  Yeah!

My neighbor today at the Market was the grower of the Turnips and Radishes that I painted earlier in the year...the Radish painting I gave to my cousin Justin, but there were two Turnip paintings: a 5x5 and a magnet.  She was thrilled that I had painted them.  A few minutes later she came back said she wanted the magnet to put on her frig....so I offered to sell it or trade it, and we settled on a bag of lettuce and a bag of spinach for the magnet. 

Last week at the Market, I showed the photo on my phone of the red truck painting to the vendor who owned the truck.  She said then that she was re-doing a bathroom and hadn't yet decided how to decorate it and that she might need the truck painting.....so this week, while it wasn't quite ready to varnish, I brought it along to let her see it in the flesh....she asked how much, so I suggested a trade for two of her loaves of bread...she accepted!

So I'm over the 100 qty mark, and 2 of those were painted over....10 have found new homes.  Better than I expected!