Thank you all for your interest and purchase of my paintings over the years! I have an opportunity coming up that I hope you will take a look at and consider.
Both my partner, Dottie T. Leatherwood, and I have strong family ties to Ireland and Scotland, neither of us having traveled to either country.We've decided to celebrate both of our "beginning a new decade" birthdays together this year by taking a short trip to Ireland in very near future to do some painting! By the way, she's obviously celebrating a lower number of decades than I am!
Most of our work in Ireland will be for personal use, but I am planning to take a limited number of loose 8x10 boards along and will create plein air paintings that will be for sale. Upon returning, I'm going to use sketch book studies and photographs to paint small 8x10 oil and/or gouache studies from the trip, which will also be for sale.
The gouache paintings painted in Ireland on loose boards are going to be limited to 7 paintings, for my 7th decade birthday! They will be pre-sold as numbered paintings, i.e., #1-#7. You will be able to purchase one on a first come- first served basis.
I will take photos to document each piece painted there, numbering and adding location info, and dating each piece. I'll keep track of "who purchased, and in what order" as the sales come through on Big Cartel.
You won't know what the paintings are ahead of time, but it will have been painted in Ireland, soon, and I won't be putting it up for sale unless I'm satisfied it deserves to be there. As a THANK YOU, I am offering those first 7 plein air pieces at a lower price than the remaining 13 studio paintings.
When I return, I will be painting more studies from the trip, in the studio. Those paintings will be numbered #8-#20, having been pre-sold, and priced a little more than the on location pieces (#1-#7) painted in Ireland. Again, it will be a mystery as to what each painting is, but they will be sold in the order painted and purchased, dated and documented as such.
The sale will begin on April 11, 2025 at 12:00 noon EDT, and end May 2, 2025 at 12:00 noon EDT. The prices on all of the paintings #1-#20 are only valid through the duration of the sale dates. After that the paintings will be removed from Big Cartel.
If you decide to purchase any of these mystery paintings, it will go a long way towards helping us fund the trip, and maybe buy a pint of Guinness or two!
A newsletter and a Substack post (if you subscribe to my Substack 'Crayolas Set Me Free') will be delivered to you the morning of April 10th, next Friday, with all of the details about how to take part in the project. All sales are "first come, first served" and will be delivered in the order that they were painted, and in the order that they were purchased.
If for any reason you're not happy with the #numbered painting you've purchased, let me know and I will offer another piece as a replacement.No refunds will be given.
TO EVERYONE WHO DECIDES TO TAKE ME UP ON THIS OFFER, THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO MAKE OUR DECADE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ONE THAT WE WILL CHERISH AND REMEMBER FOREVER! I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOU PLACING YOUR TRUST IN MY INTEGRITY, AND IN MY ART.
Note: Ireland location paintings are #1-#7 price - $400.00 / Ireland studio paintings are #8-#20 #450.00
Will you be making prints of your paintings ? They could sell for less than the original
and to a lot more people.