The Studio

Laura’s Favorite View is an oil on 8″x10″ canvas panel and is available by contacting me.

I paint a great deal from photographs, especially during the winter months when it is difficult to get outside to paint.  This view is from a photo that one of my collectors sent to me recently.  She said that she has taken numerous shots of this particular scene.  It’s one that she enjoys seeing each time she drives by it. 

I love it when readers share their photos with me and give me permission to paint from them.  I am working on a second painting from the same photo as it has a barn in it and I wanted to do a painting with and without the barn.  Stay tuned for Laura’s Favorite View II.

Thursday Trivia revisits a    question we just recently answered.  Yesterday a record was set for the most expensive piece of art every sold at auction.  It is “Walking Man”, a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, a 20th Century Swiss artist.  It took just 8 minutes for 10 bidders at Sotheby’s to run the price up to $104.3 million! 

Walking Man is a life-size sculpture, 72 inches tall, of a wiry man walking along.  The part that amazes me most is that Sotheby’s estimated that it would sell for 12-16 million pounds and it actually went for 65 million!  I’d say they were off a little in their estimate.  🙂