ORIGINAL ART OIL Plein Air LANDSCAPE Street Scene 11x14

DANCING LIGHT STUDIO ORIGINAL OIL, WATERCOLOR AND PASTEL PAINTINGS by award-winning portrait and wildlife painter Nora Sallows. Her paintings hang in collections across the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany and Great Britain. Combining a love of color and creative imagery, she paints realistic figures, portraits and wildlife subjects. 

Nora is a member of the Portrait Society of America, The Black Swamp Art Guild, Toledo Artist's Club, and the Ohio Plein Air Society. She has exhibited at numerous regional and national shows and her pieces have won many awards, including three Best of Show honors. 

This is an original oil painting! Not a print or a reproduction.

TITLE: Slocum's Dry Goods

SIZE: 11" x 14" x 1/8"

MEDIUM: Oil on Gessoboard (artist quality masonite board)

FRAMED: No

I was passing the time at an art fair by painting the store across the street. A beautiful September day, cloudy and cool with a hint of fall in the air. Lots of lookers but not many buyers. The little girl asked me what I was doing. When I explained that I was painting the store across the street she asked me if she could paint too. I said no but then told her I would give her a dollar if she would sit on the curb and model for me for five minutes. She agreed so she's IN the picture. So is the only man who walked slow enough for me to paint him. (He did have a cane.) This small town is the kind that numbered in the tens of thousands across America at one time. They are slowly disappearing. The neat architecture is being replaced by strip malls. I can't think of another store I have seen anywhere that actually claims to carry "Dry Goods". This is the town where my husband grew up and whenever I visit I feel sad because I realize there are so few of these small towns left. Towns where everyone knows everyone else and you're not afraid to leave the doors unlocked at night.

This is a great sample of my impressionist realistic style of painting. The details that need to be present to tell the story are there. I leave everything else out. It wasn't an especially easy piece to paint-- trucks would stop at the single stoplight and block my field of vision every few minutes. People would wander into my stall and make chitchat. A few bought prints, but most of them held on to their money because times are tough in this industrialized state that has seen too many factory closings and layoffs. This painting represents a dying way of life. Although they were doing a pretty good business the day I created the work, next year Slocum's, in business for three generations, might be closed.

I have tried to represent the picture's color accurately but your monitor may differ from mine slightly. Mine is calibrated to depict accurate color. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you're not completely thrilled with the workmanship and quality I will be happy to buy it back.

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This is a quality oil painting painted with traditional methods. It is an original oil painting by Northwest Ohio artist, Nora Sallows, and is sure to increase in value as her paintings become more difficult to acquire. Check out Nora's eBay Page for a link to her web page and read her blog to learn more about the artist and her work. learn more about the artist.

To would be imitators: This painting is my original idea, composition and design and it is copyrighted. It is against eBay policy to pirate artist's work and I will report violators. There has been a recent increase in foreign copy painters stealing images and re-painting them (poorly) to sell as their own. Don't be fooled - ask for a Certificate of Authenticity- take note of whether the auction is written in legible English. Poor grammar is one of the first clues that you may be dealing with copyists. Of course another obvious clue is if they advertise "Rembrandt" and "Vermeer" paintings. Folks, these artists are dead, they have been for centuries and you would be buying a poor quality reproduction with exactly NO intrinsic value. The work is not original to the artist creating it and therefore not a good investment. 

I use archival oils and quality canvas and panels- NOT cardboard painting panels. Your painting is designed to last a lifetime (or longer). This is a GENUINE original oil painting, not a copy of another work or a poor reproduction of a master's painting. Every stroke is mine. Original art is a great investment that is never worth less than what you paid for it. Monitors display colors differently. An oil painting is hard to photograph due to the reflective properties of the paint. I can assure you the actual painting looks better than the image on screen, although I have done my best to represent color as accurately as possible. Purchase with confidence- I have 100% feedback and my paintings are rising in value.

Please keep in mind that if you use BUY IT NOW to purchase this painting there could be a delay of up to seven days before the painting is ready to ship, depending on how soon it is purchased following the listing. This is due to the inherent drying properties of oil paint. I will not mail a wet painting!

Copyright 2009 Nora Sallows - images may not be reproduced without the express permission of the artist. Copyright violations by eBay sellers will be immediately reported to the Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program. Attempts to sell copies or derived works will lead to indefinite suspension from eBay.

I do accept commissions. Deposits can be made up to six months ahead of time to hold your place, otherwise work is completed on first come, first served basis. Commissions are arranged by setting up an auction on eBay where you purchase the actual commission. Use the eBay "CONTACT THE SELLER" form at the top of this auction to inquire.

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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST:

NORA is .... a Disciple of Christ ... a mother ...a writer ... a wife ... a teacher ...a volunteer with the OHIO READS program ... a member of the National Wildlife Association and the ASPCA, the Humane Society of America... a member of the Pastel Society of America ... a web designer for her church ... a member of the Toledo Artists Club and a member of the Plein Air Painters of Northwest Ohio and the Ohio Plein Air Society. Her works have been featured in many national and regional shows and she has  won numerous awards, including three Best of Shows. 

AWARDS AND SHOWS

Nora is an accomplished oil and pastel painter with a degree in Graphic Communications from Terra College of Design. Although she has accepted private commissions for more than twenty years she did not begin promoting and selling professionally until 2004. Her work hangs in private collections throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. She has won numerous awards for her oil, watercolor and pastel paintings and many of her pieces are available as limited edition prints from a major printer. She teaches oil and acrylic painting at Main Street Art and glass in Delta, Ohio and offers workshops 3 times a year in portrait painting. A fan of Richard Schmid and John Sargent, she has worked for many years to develop her own style of painting: a frenetic and vibrant realism that blends surprising color choices with sure draughtsmanship. Please email the artist for information about upcoming workshops.

 

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WHAT IS THE SECRET TO A GOOD PAINTING?

I 'm glad you asked! In my opinion a good painting is about something. EVEN IF THE PAINTING IS A PORTRAIT it should still tell the viewer something about what the artist thought as they interpreted their subject. Did the artist choose to emphasize the person's beauty, their clothing, or their personality? If you're looking at a landscape and you can't seem to look away it is because the artist has grouped the arrangement on their canvas in a way that is intriguing and pleasing. This is not an accident; a painting with a pleasing design and composition will hold our attention much longer than one that is painted "just because". Here is another clue: Good paintings can be converted to gray-scale in an image editor and still be found interesting! Why? Because the artist has paid close attention to the values and the composition. We're all familiar with the abundance of copy artists on the internet who will turn out Van Goghs and Rembrandts (well --copies anyway) for a small sum of money. What are we really purchasing if we do buy Van Gogh's Starry Night? It is not an original-- maybe it is a good copy, but we don't have a one of a kind item and nothing can compare to the original so at best we have an imitation that will never be worth more than we paid for it because the original hangs in the MoMA in NY.

ALLA PRIMA- all at once- it means painting wet into wet. The goal is to finish while the painting is wet. It's not always possible and sometimes you have to go back and rework a few areas but the painting is probably 90% complete after the first session. Purchasing artwork on the internet is difficult under the best of circumstances but is virtually impossible if you can't see what you're buying. This is why I've made every attempt to show the detail in this painting with extreme close-ups. I took these pictures with a Canon 8.3 mega pixel camera outside in the shade so the color would be accurate. I can assure you the painting looks better in person. Serious bidders may request an image to be emailed directly to them.