Sold a Desert Sunset Saw Painting on Etsy

So, I have had my painted saws on Etsy for how many years and never sold one online? And yesterday I got an order for one of them to be shipped to Ridgecrest, just as I was thinking of taking them down. It sold for $150 plus shipping. Now if the other 20 would sell we would be in business! UPS packaged it, insured it, and sent it off for about what I charged for the shipping, and it should be there tomorrow. Wow! Merry Christmas to me. Sometimes it is nice to have confirmation that you are on the right path.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/pennybiz - more saws and stuff on my Etsy Site.

Water Soluble Oil Paints

I just ordered some water soluble oil paints, which sounds like a contradiction in terms, but is an exciting concept to me.  I like to paint wet on wet and with acrylics it requires lots of retarded and mediums to keep the paint soft long enough to get the effects I want to achieve.  So we shall see if this will work better for me.  There are lots of brands, and it is a GREEN product, so the environment and the painter will be safe from harm. I think the Weber brand is the best deal and has a good quality of paint from what I have read online.

Today I tried to paint but things just weren't going well at all.  So I quit trying to force it and went online and listed two hand saws on Etsy.  My favorite is the Desert Cactus Sunset scene.  You can't really see it well here, but it has iridescent paint, (Jo Sonja - one of my favorite acrylic brands) and the colors are awesome.  Recently I have tried Golden Acrylics and I like the texture and the mediums they have. 

Keep on Painting!