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Monet Sells for over $43 Million

Posted in Trivia, tagged , on November 10, 2012| 1 Comment »

Wow!  One of Monet’s Water Lilies sold for over $43 million!  Read about it here. 

 

 

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Impressionism – Trivia Thursday (on Friday)

Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged , , , , , , , on February 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I love impressionism.  Many people do.  When you ask someone what their favorite painting might be often people will name an impressionist’s work; ie.  Monet, Degas, Renoir, etc. 

But do you know what invention truly help to develop the impressionist movement of painting outdoors and capturing light and fleeting images?  The paint tube!   Never would have guess that, right?  Before the invention of the paint tube which allowed artists to easily carry their mixed paints in the field they had to use, of all things, pig bladders.  Yuck.  I’m thinking I would have remained in the studio to paint too. 

Miniature Summer Flowers is an oil on canvas panel measuring 3″x7″ and is available for $45.

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New Painting and ThursdayTrivia

Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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.  🙂

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Thursday Trivia

Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 14, 2010| 1 Comment »

“Miniature Snow and Fence” is an oil on 3″x5″ stretched canvas.  This painting is available for $40 by contacting me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

Today I am introducing a new series.  Each Thursday I will try to answer a “trivia” question about art.  I get questions all the time about little things related to painting.  This is where I will address those questions.  Who knows?  Maybe we will learn something on Trivia Thursday!

Today’s question is about the different length of handles on brushes.  Why are some brush handles longer than others?  The short-handled brushes are generally for watercolor painting or painting where you sit close to the piece you are working on.  Long-handled brushes are used mainly for oil painting.  When painting oils you want to try to stand up at the easel.  That way you can stand back from work and look at what it needs.  If the brush has a longer handle then you can put paint on the canvas by standing back from it and seeing where it needs more work.  Many instructors teach new painters to put one stroke on the canvas and walk back a couple of steps.  Then decide where the next stroke of paint should go, put it on and walk back.  This is why you see painters on tv stepping back and looking at the work, generally with their head cocked to one side.  The head cock is optional.  🙂

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