Just Abstract Art blog

On of my favourite flowers is the ox eye daisy. They are flowering everywhere at the moment, we have them growing in the long grass on the banks in our garden. The butterflies and bees love them and they look really cheery, huge yellow middles and, in the sunshine, almost velvety, sparkly white petals. They look to me like they are smiling!

I enjoy painting these flowers and have just listed one of my recent paintings on eBay.
Click here or the photo to take a look.

I have added another painting to my website. It is an acrylic on canvas measuring 20 x 16 inches. The sides are painted and are staple free so it is ready to hang.

If you are interested in purchasing the painting and would like to see more photos please send me an email.

Never More

20 x 16 Acrylic on canvas

Painted Sides - Ready to hang

Available £120

I have just added a new painting to my eBay listings. A little ACEO (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) painting measuring 3.5 x 2.5 inches. It has been painted in watercolour paints, on watercolour paper.
Click the photo to view the auction.

I have just finished a collection of yellow abstract paintings which were commissioned by a regular repeat customer. I have painted something for them in almost every colour of the rainbow - as well as pinks and greys. They are having their house redecorated and have so far commissioned a piece for each room.
The latest addition to their collection was a triptych of 16 x 16 inch canvases painted with a swirling, layered technique. I really enjoyed painting it - yellow is such a lovely happy glowing colour, I took inspiration from the lovely daffodils, forsythia and primroses that are blooming in the garden at the moment - they look really beautiful! Spring is just about here!

My latest painting listed on eBay is a ballerina abstract. These have proved to be quite popular in galleries so I thought I would paint one especially for eBay. This painting was painted over a textured background, this was created by hand, with the ballet dancer ‘drawn’ in to the texture. Once dry the background colours were added and finally all the splatters and flowing paint was drawn on to the canvas.

More eBay perils - you would think that painting for a living and handling the majority of sales your self would lead to a hassle free working life - with no stresses or strains, bitchyness or backstabbing - well not so….

As I mentioned in my previous post my eBay ’stalker’ is back. Well not so much a stalker but a copycat artist who has been an annoyance for, well, years now.

Copycat artists are all to common on eBay. Something that many new artists starting to sell don’t realise. Often they are quite high volume eBay sellers who copy paintings by printing them from the ebay image and selling them as prints, sometimes they can be ‘artists’ who literally copy paintings, often, it seems, painting several in one day. Sometimes it can be more personal….

Almost ever since I have sold my paintings on eBay I have been plagued by another eBay user - way back in 2002 this artist used to copy all my ideas - I would paint something, list it on eBay and then a week or so later I would see my painting ‘ripped’ off by this other artist, copying just enough to have used my ideas but not enough to be a real copy. They do say that imitation is the highest form of flattery! The copying has continued on and off ever since - even down to stopping listing on eBay back in June 2006 - just after I stopped listing due to needing to take life a bit slower with a problem pregnancy. This person must have me on their favourite sellers - quite an honour - as soon after I recently started listing, what happens? This person starts painting and listing again too!! (yes I have a search set up to find their auctions). I expect they have already seen my new ballet dancer and no doubt ballet dancers will be featuring in their auctions soon………