My email is: Martydeey@gmail.com
An art showing of many MY BEST ARTWORK THAT I HAVE EVER DONE -of 40 years in the making- that is to run for almost three months, and curated, and attended, to, probably 80-90% of the days the Gallery will be open, by me; signing prints and selling and certifying original works; is about to premier, in Port Townsend.
* * * WELCOME ALL * * *
Watertreet Night
this unique painting definitely has special meaning to me, and could possibly be featured in its form as an original, in the Kreatia Gallery re-opening. If this painting is featured, and put up for sale the asking price would likely be at around $3000.00, or there-abouts. It might also be featured as prints at the re-opening. Hope to see you there!!
Hell's Bar -portrait of the Town Tavern\, Port Townsend 2001 Acrylic 20x16 inches: $1600.00. I heard that it would close later in the year, so I painted it going with a view from inside -four different times, over the next five months, before the fateful day of its closing. Once one of the paintings never even made it out of the bar before it was sold right off the easel. Here is one of the only four original portraits painted by me, of the Town Tavern, still in existence, that is also the only one that I still own. I was playing around with an experimental color palette that day, and in end the forms looked sort of hellish in a captivating sort of way, so I went with "Hell's Bar," for the title.
What better way to premier a reopening of a Gallery, that to offer some very affordable art pieces, as a promotional lead-up to build some excitement about that re-opening?(exclamation) This 11x14 acrylic painting executed in plein-air fashion while I was doing my art on Watersteet in port Townsend I am presently offering at a steal price of $220.00, if you want to pick it up at a time mutually convenient for both of us. My email address is posted at the beginning of this post. The plein- air paintings by me that will be featured at Kreatia after the re-opening, will be typically offered at prices of between $250.00, and $1600.00 although there may be occasional exceptions, where the painting could be offered for more, or less.
Probably the most common price that one of my paintings would sell for is- going with recent history- averaging around just over $400.00, unframed for the plein-air pieces that I sell. Larger studio paintings might start around Six Hundred dollars and get up around three thousand, for some of them. But it never hurts to ask, and I'm now working on posting the asking prices of my paintings on this blogspot, and other venues.
Several factors could influence my choice, to price up a painting, such as that the painting could have personal history, and meaning
to me that would probably encourage me to enhance my story telling
skills- to relate about that, or maybe the piece, represents a past landmark that has left the community, as in
burned down, or demolished and replaced with more modern, engineering,
and architecture, etc....
In the next few days, I will be offering a
few more of these bargain original art pieces, so you might want to be
watching out for these posts, if owning my art in original form might
interests you... See painting below
I must slip this in here at the forefront of my soon go to online exhibit, that features my on the spot character portrait sketches, because there is just not enough time for me to get this put out, otherwise. But do look for another post on this blog spot, featuring mainly this Gallery, and it's contents. But for now: Here is a GRANDE PREVIEW:
And while I'm at it: I'm also featuring the painting Agnew Grocery and Feed for $470.00. It is a painting with Acryic painted on stretched canvas, at 14x11 inches in size.
The image of my painting of the Indian Island Bridge will be represented at the gallery with prints 11"x14" in size, and also greeting cards. The prints can also be ordered from me. Directly.
The original painting- Rainier -Glassy Sailing, might be featured at Kreatia Galkery, or the prints will be- or possibly both. The price of the original will be $475.00, if it is decided that it isvto be offered for sale at Kreatia Gallery.
Prints will be offered featuring the image of this painting of Liberty Bay, Poulsbo. Also greeting cards featuring this image are likely to be offered for sale, at Kreatia gallery, at the next opening.
Prints of this image of the Old Cafe -a that originated from an original painting by me, will be approximately 14x11 inches in size, and will be offered at Kreatia gallery, as soon as possible, once it re-opens. The lead up to the re-opening of the gallery will involve a lot of work and ordering of prints and framing materials, and the things that I will be needing to be stock the gallery to make it run successfully- so I may not immediately get prints for every image that I want to have represent my work in the gallery. But I am going to strive to have all of my best work represented at Kreatia Gallery either in the form of the original, or a print of the work, or both. I'm pretty sure that this may be a process that may take weeks for the goal to be fulfilled One way to perhaps insure that a print, or original that you may have spotted in some of my promotion of the art, would be at the gallery when you visit, would be to let me know a few days in advance, of your intention to visit, and that you would like to see a particular image represented at the showing, just in case I haven't quite gotten around to having the image in mind printed. Then perhaps I could go out of my way to try to have that original or print available. This painting was inspired by The Fountain Cafe. The original piece sold long ago.
The original of this painting, that captures, in time- a beached boat in the Tracyton district of Kitsap County. It was visible from a car pullout spot and popular sea-run cutthroat trout fishing and bayside viewing spot alongside Tracyton Beach road. It eventually disappeared. Probably it was carried away or smashed to pieces in a storm.
The original of this painting, that represents the farm area of Center Valley, between Chimacum and Quilcene, will be featured in the next Kreatia gallery opening.
The plien-air painting that I executed on the spot, at the site of the Devil's Tower, in Wyoming, is being considered to be shown in the next Kreatia Gallery Opening. Otherwise prints, and/or greeting cards will feature this image.
Amazingly two of my best ever plien-air paintings happened on the same day in Pioneer square, in the year 2k. I'm still trying to comprehend how this could have happened, since it was winter time -around late February, or March, and I would have usually have had to travel to and from Seattle, in the same day as doing this work, although, I sometimes after an afternoon painting a scene, in Seattle, I might have made enough money drawing and selling quick character sketches and other art, or prints in the pubs, after to get a cab and a hotel somewhere, or even just went to an all night cafe, like the hurricane, and stuck it out with a lot of coffee and a light snooze here, or there, involuntarily, so that did save me that much travel on the same day. Still, I'm just not completely sure how it could have happened so perfectly. This painting is the Seattle professional baseball-field still under construction at that time, that was then dubbed Safeco Field. I will show the other painting shortly on the same post following the posting of this image on the blogspot martydavid.blogspot.com , very soon.
BUT FIRST:
ANNOUNCEMENT:
I'm sorry to report that as of tomorrow we will have to vacate the gallery for ten days as construction -installation of a sprinkler system happens in the building that Kreatia gallery -that is my new art Gallery- occupies. This is really a bummer and is just another disruption that I've had to deal with. The first few weeks of my move into the building I had to deal with repairing the condition of the entrance to the building because construction projects there were unfinished. That pretty much robbed me of he time that I should have had to prepare the gallery and prepare for the opening show and conduct some promotions- which left me feeling pretty miserable, and stressed and anxious. Its not the kind of start that someone wants for a huge life investment involving the possibly one opportunity to premier their Life's work. Having to throw away expense and time is not something I can afford these days.
Here are some of the paintings, and/or prints that are in, or will be joining the show ten days from now, when the gallery opens for another 3 and a half weeks -possibly longer, when we see that things are working out.
The Aleutian rose print will be available by order request. The original was purchased by someone, awhile back.
Also missing, in original form, is the Tug on Port Townsend bay, The Sailboat- Anchored Out at Liberty Bay painting, The Old Cafe painting, and the painting of Indian Island bridge. Those will be represented by prints, or available for order, just ask, if you would like to order a print that you see a painting of, that you like, in the gallery, or otherwise
The twelve by eighteen, or sixteen by twenty high-res-inkjet prints -or sizes right around there- go for between $135.00, and $180.00 unframed.
Here are some of the paintings, and/or prints that are in, or will be joining the show ten days from now, when the gallery opens for another 3 and a half weeks -possibly longer, when we see that things are working out.
The Aleutian rose print will be available by order request. The original was purchased by someone, awhile back.
Also missing, in original form, is the Tug on Port Townsend bay, The Sailboat- Anchored Out at Liberty Bay painting, The Old Cafe painting, and the painting of Indian Island bridge. Those will be represented by prints, or available for order, just ask, if you would like to order a print that you see a painting of, that you like, in the gallery, or otherwise
The twelve by eighteen, or sixteen by twenty high-res-inkjet prints -or sizes right around there- go for between $135.00, and $180.00 unframed.
There will be some smaller laser prints available that will typically represent my plein-air paintings, which works well since the size of the (approximately), 11x14 print will be very close to, and often the exact same size as the original was. My (most often-) larger studio work is the most likely to be reproduced as a high res print on high end print paper, with the exception of the airbrushed Mermaid painting that I offer as an 11x14 (approximately) inch laser print. I may -in this go-round be selling most prints by order, since it is difficult for me to build up stock right now, because the project of opening the studio, and having these shows has tapped my resources, but I will try to have some of the prints available, in the gallery, at least by the next show.
There will also be some instances where I could be involved in framing a piece, as I have a great picture framing set of miter vices, and a really decent mat cutter. A pretty decent miter saw. I use glass in whatever existing sizes the piece is. or I order it from a local glass supplier. I can take an existing glass and frame and cut a mat to fit it, and the print, or drawing, or what-have-you. So I have capability with some limitation, at present. Some art pieces don't require glass, or matting. If I were to get serious about picture framing, I would need to have a more complete set-up. It's fairly likely that I might refer inquiries about framing to one of the local shops, but I might consider taking on some framing projects.
Expect shipping of my art prints to cost between 12 and 36 dollars -going Fed-eX flat rate, if it goes the three day delivery rate. A larger than 16 x 20 inch would have to be shipped in a 6 inch diameter "tube", to make it into that inexpensive delivery rate category.
Many of the paintings' images are represented in the gallery -printed on greeting cards, and many of those cards can be purchased at the gallery.
I will let everyone know, just as soon as we set a date for the next special event evening art show.
I've been saying "we" often because my work in my gallery is accompanied, at present, by the work of Steven R. Johnson. He has also had a hand if some of the preparation of the shows, and the gallery. I f you see me at my easel, or with my art cart, downtown, or somewhere: expect me to have with me a decent selection of my greeting cards, and probably also some original art pieces.
Have a great week, everyone -I really hope! Maybe drop by after ten days when Kreatia reopens. You are certainly welcome!!!
There will also be some instances where I could be involved in framing a piece, as I have a great picture framing set of miter vices, and a really decent mat cutter. A pretty decent miter saw. I use glass in whatever existing sizes the piece is. or I order it from a local glass supplier. I can take an existing glass and frame and cut a mat to fit it, and the print, or drawing, or what-have-you. So I have capability with some limitation, at present. Some art pieces don't require glass, or matting. If I were to get serious about picture framing, I would need to have a more complete set-up. It's fairly likely that I might refer inquiries about framing to one of the local shops, but I might consider taking on some framing projects.
Expect shipping of my art prints to cost between 12 and 36 dollars -going Fed-eX flat rate, if it goes the three day delivery rate. A larger than 16 x 20 inch would have to be shipped in a 6 inch diameter "tube", to make it into that inexpensive delivery rate category.
Many of the paintings' images are represented in the gallery -printed on greeting cards, and many of those cards can be purchased at the gallery.
I will let everyone know, just as soon as we set a date for the next special event evening art show.
I've been saying "we" often because my work in my gallery is accompanied, at present, by the work of Steven R. Johnson. He has also had a hand if some of the preparation of the shows, and the gallery. I f you see me at my easel, or with my art cart, downtown, or somewhere: expect me to have with me a decent selection of my greeting cards, and probably also some original art pieces.
Have a great week, everyone -I really hope! Maybe drop by after ten days when Kreatia reopens. You are certainly welcome!!!
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Was there ever a better time to have a portrait done?!? !!!!!!. I just finished one, and definitely ready to take on one more. !! Lets get 2023 off to a great start! email: Martydeey@gmail.com
