Aveyron 10 - Plowed Fields

Aveyron 9 - Lavender Field

A few kilometers southwest of where we are staying (so this may be in the Tarn-et-Garonne).

Aveyron 8 - vers Le Batut

Aveyron 7 - near Cantagrel

These fields on the tops of hills are beautiful from a distance.

Aveyron 6 - near Testas

Aveyron 5

 The terrain here is undulating, steep in places, and covered with agriculture and some wooded areas.

Aveyron--Les Costes

Here we are, in the Aveyron region of southwest France. This is a sketchy rendition of the little house we're staying in, which doesn't do justice to the rustic stone that it's constructed of. It's a very small, old house with a fascinating history, which you can read here on the blog of the delightful people for whom we are house-sitting.

ITL 7

Growth

Piccoli Frutti

10 X 8" o/p

Soon to be available through Pearson Education!

This is the forthcoming new edition of a highly respected psychology textbook, featuring my painting on the cover. I'm so proud to be associated with this fine publisher, it's been a real pleasure working with them.

The Importance of Good Documentation

Here's what I've been working on for the last couple days:
12" X 9", o/cp

This image might look familiar, because it's based on a previous painting which sold during my show earlier this year in San Diego. I *thought* I had a decent photograph of it, as documentation. Then, recently, I was contacted by a major textbook publisher in Boston. An editor had come across my work on the internet, and they offered to pay me a substantial sum to use the image for the cover of a forthcoming textbook if I could provide a hi-resolution image. When I sent them what I had, it turned out that they were all low-res photos of it. Photos good enough to blog and to have a record of what I had painted, but not nearly good enough for publication with a top-rate publisher.  Almost a missed opportunity. I repainted the work, and shot it in high resolution. I've always loved this image, and felt it could have been done better than before. And I'm actually much happier with this version. I've seen a preliminary mock-up of the cover--it looks great!

So the moral of the story is, always ALWAYS have good, HIGH-resolution photos of your work. Even though a painting sells, you retain the copyright to that image, and you never know when someone will find it and want to pay you generously for its use!

Mom's House