Oils
She sings and she paints…
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Chris Bolmeiere calls herself an Accidental Artist. Previously a professional actress, she still sings and posts the songs on her blog. Her “accidental” oil paintings are colorful, energetic and expressive. Chris never planned to become a painter, so that’s probably what she means by accidental…plus her methods of painting are rather impromptu: she paints, scrapes away, applies more then removes more, and somewhere along the way a successful painting emerges.
Her crude (but crude in a good way) illustrations of childhood memories are hilarious; one might be inclined to label them Naive Art, but in no way is Chris naive. This “accidental” Artist is honest and direct with her approach to all of the Arts; painting, writing, singing, whatever, has little fear and is full of fun. Multi-talented, and as the name of her weblog implies: she’s Christerical.
Not only that, if you sell her work she’ll give you 20%….so, If you buy this painting from Chris and saw it here first, please let her know. I’ll give you 10% for telling her, because otherwise you might not…meaning you get 10% off and we’ll all come out winners.
New marketing strategies
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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True Colors #70, Nikki - trucolors.info, 11 x 14 inches quality print, signed, black mat, unframed |  |
Inspired Splatter by Chris Bolmeier - 16 x 20 inches Oils on wrapped canvas, $600.00 |
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Unframed $600.00 | |
In her Wed. April 30th blog post, my friend Chris Bolmeier writes about an older painting she revitalized, and in this case it improved dramatically. Surprise 2 supports what I wrote in yesterday’s post: many paintings need a period of rest before we know how to solve them. In any Artist’s home/studio there are at least ten or so paintings hanging around or put away in unfinished states. If it isn’t sold immediately, chances are 50/50 it will continue to change as we attempt to improve it until we know it’s truly finished.
Chris is trying new marketing strategies, and offering anyone who sells her work a 20% cut. A little out of the ordinary to show and offer another Artist’s work for sale on my own website, but this is a brilliant idea she has, and I don’t mind trying to help promote her work. Inspired Splatter can be purchased here via PayPal, (she and I will work out the details) or if you deal directly with her and saw it here first, please mention that. Good Luck with your sales, Chris!
WIP – Crossing Borders
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Work In Progress: Crossing Borders – Thousand Islands skyline, New York / Ontario border - 5 framed panels each 26 x 11 inches – Oils sculpted with palette knives…will finish with Acrylics when completely dry, probably in about 6 months. Above: playing with the vision using digital pen.
Oil and Water – never the twain shall mix? This work will challenge that, and experiment with crossing those borders. I think the oil resisting acrylics should make for some interesting effects and textures; the places where there are layers, dips and holes should fill nicely with acrylics. If I’m not pleased or the idea isn’t working I’ll finish it using oils, but I’d like to give this idea a try.
Below, click on thumbnails: A few details of the panels as they are now at Stage 1, layered with palette knives on the lower half, mostly with black; intentions are for the black to show through in the finished pieces, and to contrast with bright colors applied over top when dry – see you in 6 months or so with this one!
