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I'm an artist and writer of fiction and blogs, 72 years old, now living in Encinitas, CA. I picked up art again a few years after graduating from the fourth grade (about 60) and made my way from acrylic to oil and back, and through realism to abstract. There are examples of all within these pages. I'm, ultimately, a long-time day-dreamer, and believer in hope and wonder. Magic too.

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Lost Sale, Shipping Blues

10/21/2016

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Lost Sale, Shipping Blues

I was contacted by a man saying he and his wife had seen my "Sunfish" painting on display in the lobby of Portland's Academy Theater (see previous post) and wanted to buy it. When I returned the email and received another I learned that the couple were tourists from Detroit, MI, and already on the road down the Oregon coast, so could I please ship it to them. I brought a canvas the same 24 x 30 size to the local UPS office to get a good guesstimate of the shipping charge and it turned out to be more than $100. When I relayed this information to the travelers, well, I never heard from them again. The cost was more than twice what I had paid for a similar sized-painting to be shipped all the way to Massachusetts a little more than a year earlier. Here's what I heard -- "The rates have gone up a lot."
It's a bummer to think that shipping charges may scare potential Art patrons away, especially for someone who has so few. 
Creative solutions welcomed. 
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At the Movies

10/3/2016

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I am fortunate to hang paintings in The Academy Theater in Portland for the month of October. The old-time theater in Portland's Montavilla district invites local artists to display work each month, and I'm fortunate and grateful it's my turn. I have 15 of a paintings, a mix of abstracts, portraits, and landscapes, on their walls through Halloween.
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