So, I’m fighting a bit of a summer cold, and working on the full-sized strawberry patch picture. Rather than lay out the whole composition before I filled in the details, this time I decided to let it flow….and fill in the details as I went along. I thought it would be less tedious that way. At least I thought so.
These drawing are not the first I’ve done of strawberries. A long time ago, I did this:
A very realistic drawing of strawberries. I thought I’d found the solution to the problem of making money with my art…make small drawing that I could sell inexpensively. It was another attempt that went down in a fiery flame.
Seems no one could relate to just strawberries on a plate. Or apples with pearls for that matter. I found there had to sell, even that size, the viewer had to have an emotional connection to the subject matter.
Finding subject matter like that is pretty much a shot in the dark. I’ve managed to sell two, on Ebay, and how my customer found them in the thousands of drawings there, I’ll never know.
The two were these:
So, one customer I’m sure had to be a motorcycle enthusiast, while another was someone who ❤ New York.
I feel I am getting closer to an art product people will buy. Too bad it’s taken a few decades to get there.
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