What to do with all these paintings

Ronna

About 10 years? ago I learned to paint following Mark's method.  I try to paint several days a week.  I don't sell my work but just love to paint.  I paint on canvas and boards.  I have a lot on my walls but stuff is piling up. So I decided to make books to hold my paintings.  I can paint as many paintings as I want and have a place to keep them without taking up room.  I'm trying to keep them around 8x10.  My favorite canvas to paint on is Centurion OP DLX.  I also use Oil Primed canvas but that tends to roll.  I printed my cover onto desktop inkjet canvas.
  I have a Leverage Punch using Circa 1-inch discs.  If you want to just have a record of your paintings you can print them up and keep them in one of these books too.  I also have some pictures of that.


Pictures 1 and 5 are originals.  The others are print outs of my paintings.
You could make these books for pastel work, watercolors, drawings or whatever.  I haven't posted for a while and I wanted to show you what I've been up to and encourage you to keep painting.

dencal

Ronna

Thanks. Great idea.  Splendid paintings. They deserve a future. Suggest you gift them to friends and family if you can't find space. You could also hold a charity auction. Offer them as donation to a hospital.

Denis

BOB73

Great idea and great paintings but I've heard or read that you need to put something like a certain type of paper or cloth between them so they wont stick and harm the painted surfaces. I'll post further if I can find the specifics. 

Ronna

@BOB73, I've been thinking about that too.  I appreciate any info.  I do have acid free tissue paper.  Wonder if that would work.

dencal

Ronna

The best is silicone coated release paper for interleaving.

A very handy paper that will not stick to art work. This parchment like paper will withstand heat applications without sticking or damaging art work, and is commonly used for wrapping artwork, in dry mounting presses, and release liners when working with waxes and adhesives. White in color, silicone impregnated so both sides are treated, and has a basis weight of 27 lb.

Sheet size: 24" x 36". Rolls Sizes: 48" x 300' and 68" x 300'

Sheets are sold with a minimum order of 10 sheets.

http://www.talasonline.com/Silicone-Release

Denis

dencal

Ronna

i think the modern replacement for wax paper - the lunch wrap used before plastics became available - is a silicone coated paper and might be worth an experiment.

I bought some last week to play around with image transfer, though the product I bought - Glad Go Between - is a coated freezer interleave paper. Though this product is plastic coated, l' m on the lookout for silicone coated paper.


Denis

dencal

Ronna

Just doing some looking around on line and found this silicone coated product

http://www.glad.com.au/glad-products/food-management/glad-bake-and-cooking-paper/

Denis

Ronna

Thanks Denis!  I appreciate your research.  That silicone coated release paper looks like a great option.

michalis

Wow! Great, great work, I think you should start selling....

Ronna

Thank you @michalis.

NanaBean

great idea and fantastic work!

Kaustav

Excellent idea. 

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Ronna

Thank you NanaBean, Kaustav, tim_gier, DaveInLondon.
I appreciate your input on selling Dave.  One thing about selling is consistency . If you have a website for selling or etsy it's important to be consistent and keep inventory. For me, I like the freedom to paint and not have any pressure to keep up on selling.  Ten, twenty years ago I made and sold another product which I sold at shows.  I have no desire to do that again.  Although, I did think about tiny 1/12 scale paintings to sell on ebay.

tassieguy

@Ronna, I hadn't seen this thread before. Your paintings are beautiful. And what a great way of recording and storing them. But I think you wouldn't have much trouble selling these if you wanted to. They're all brilliant but the one of the budgerigar and the one of the earthenware pots are my favourites. I love the abstract surface pattern formed by the pots, the composition, but at the same time they have a wonderful feeling of depth due to the lights and darks and there is a lovely overall colour harmony I find very appealing. 

rautchetan

Hi @Ronna,is one of them Sargent's recreation?

Hilary

Ronna , you said you didn't sell your work. 
But I hope you know that your paintings would sell like hot cakes should you choose to put them up for sale. 

Ronna

@tassieguy, thank you.  Interesting thing about the pots.  A few years back I went to a yardsale and bought these pre-columbian pots.  Many years ago this guy worked in South America building roads.  They dug up dozens of these pots.  I paid $10 each. He had so many, his wife made him sell some.  I would have bought more but wasn't 100% sure they were real.  I had them looked at and was told they were real.  The solid one in the lower left is around 1000 years!  I stood on a chair to take an above shot for the composition.  Not sure what a budgerigar is.
@rautchetan, yes, that is a photo of the painting I did of Sargent's "Repose".
@Hilary, thank you!

rautchetan

It's extraordinary @Ronna ,hats off !!! 

Richard_P

Love them Ronna. Aren't there two sargent paintings there?

Do you have hi-res photos of them, even if you don't sell them?

Ronna

Thanks rautchetan and Richard.
Richard, the other is a copy of Joaquin Sorolla Bastida. 

tassieguy

Ronna said:

@tassieguy, thank you.  Interesting thing about the pots.  A few years back I went to a yardsale and bought these pre-columbian pots.  Many years ago this guy worked in South America building roads.  They dug up dozens of these pots.  I paid $10 each. He had so many, his wife made him sell some.  I would have bought more but wasn't 100% sure they were real.  I had them looked at and was told they were real.  The solid one in the lower left is around 1000 years!  I stood on a chair to take an above shot for the composition.  Not sure what a budgerigar is.

Wow, 1000 yrs old! They must be worth a fortune. Lock them away somewhere so they don't get broken or stolen.

A budgerigar is that pretty little green and yellow bird you painted so well. An Aussie bird, in fact.