#130 and #131 6/24/19 Two More Magnets

Still on vacation, with my commission complete (I'm still so amazed someone asked me to paint something in particular!), I decided to start small and get two magnets completed.  Before I left for vacation, I gathered all the supplies I would need and arranged 16 canvases on cardboard, and then selected 16 photos, cropped them to the intended canvas size, put them all in a word document, and printed them.  I wouldn't be able to print stuff at the cottage, but I could view my pictures on a large enough screen.  Dave recently purchased a laptop for me (he said my desktop computer is ancient and is getting ready to fail.....he wanted to get a jump on what he figured would be my insistence that I be able to get back to my "work" ASAP - so with this new laptop, I'm all set for the demise of my desktop, plus I can take a laptop anywhere - he's my techy better-half).  I'm still digging the clownfish photo, thought he'd make a cute magnet.  I'm still digging the blue converse sneakers, thought they'd also make a cute magnet.  One of my nephews, Ethan, liked the converse painting, so I told him once it dried and I varnished it, I'd send it to him.  Then later, one of my nieces, Allie, tested that painting with her finger and took off a chunk of paint (easily fixed, thankfully).  The original clownfish watery background is still my favorite....and this third attempt didn't capture the watery colors like my first.  These fails make me nervous to part with things I like.  On one hand, sell it or give it away...I can always make another.  But will the next be as good?  Perhaps the next will be better.  Shouldn't I have more control over this?  I suppose this comes with artistic territory.  You're not manufacturing an item that can be reproduced identically.  Like a living thing, it seems to attain its own DNA sequences.  Although the converse sneakers look very much like the first version (just a lot smaller!)