kurthzone watercolors and such

[kurthzone]

kurthzone watercolors and such

Some time ago I posted a link to auctions of my paintings on eBay. There
was a tremendous response from many on this site and many of you bought
paintings and/or liked something that was already sold. My reply was I
would be painting more, but alas I quit painting for a few months. It is
so hard to work a full time job and commute 3 hours a day, attend to all
the dweebs social activities, spend time with Janet, spend time on the
yard, the house, the cars, spend time with friends and try to squeeze
the creative process into the cracks. I just wanted to let you all know
that I'm squeezing again. It is what I really want to do.

Also some of you asked about commissions. My feeling on commissions is
this: I've been in the graphics art business now for thirty years making
a living and the art that I produce there is always being directed by
art/creative directors and/or clients. The thing I like most about what
I consider to be fine art is the freedom to paint however I want without
someone looking over my shoulder saying, "move that shape and change the
hue". I know the Sistine Chapel was very much directed, but I also know
that "Guernica" was not. Painting for me is an emotional process that is
blended with any technical ability I may have. Just one painting can be
an emotional roller coaster ride that either makes it or doesn't.
Sometimes I'm not sure if the finished painting works or not, if it
conveys whatever I thought it should, if it invokes an interest in the
viewer for whatever reason. Sometime I know they don't work but I just
can't abandon them and I've found that often times these paintings
actually do work for someone else. Sometimes only time and the opinions
of others, public or peer, will tell. That's why juried exhibitions are
an important aspect of the artists career. Whatever the end result is, I
own it, it is me garbage or masterpiece. At this point in my artistic
endeavor I'm not sure that I could instill "interest" in a commissioned
work and just having that fear alone could be disasterous.

Right now I'm working small and experimenting with style, I've only done
a couple of large paintings in the last year, but I want to eventually
get back to full or half sheet size watercolors and show in juried
exhibits and galleries. I'm trying to get back into the groove that I
left back in the 80's when I did those things. I don't want to limit
myself to eBay, but part of the idea of art is that it be seen and right
now eBay is not a bad way so long as it doesn't cost me more to show
than it does to buy Arches 140# cold press and pure ground pigments and
the time to finish a piece. I think at this point if I sell a work for
the starting bid, I might net somewhere around $2.00 an hour. Not too
bad considering my work is out there. If part of my purpose here in the
world has to do with painting, then I want it way out there, not that
I'm so important but something I do for the name of Christ could be.
This is where my heart is and I don't mean in the light of Thomas
Kinkade.
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[beckett]

Beautiful paintings Stan! I loved the ones I found through Christain Hikers as well! You have such talent!
Linda
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[evenstar]

Glad to see you're back at it
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[Trishness]

Already put in my bid on one. Such beautiful artwork!
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~~~Trish~~~

"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings.

[outside1]

Just keep at it Stan, it is important to do what you love to do! Personally, I will continue to look for and admire your work, it will be fun to tell people I know you when….
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Tony

[Daddee]

Loved a couple of the pieces - the "Refugees" seems to have the most emotional power and "Winter Rim" was the one that struck me the most artistically, whereas the "Superstition Ridgeline" is probably the one I'd buy.

Great work Stan.
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[Tom Treks]

Nice stuff Stan. I was kind of hoping to see the Ridgeline print on the AZH t-shirts sometime. Picked up a couple of Tony cabin T's a few weeks ago.

[IGO]

Wonderful color. Fluid.
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[ck1]

Good for you Stan.
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-Colin

"The Journey is the Destination"

[kurthzone]

Thank you all for the very kind words. I really appreciate all of you.

Tom anything I paint can be used for a T-shirt. If someone wants to do it just let me know. I still own the copyrights to everything I sell.
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[ck1]

It would appear that your work is selling!
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-Colin

"The Journey is the Destination"

[Hikngrl]

I got one last night!!!! I won my bid and I am now a proud owner of a Stan Kurth original!!!!! It is so beautiful!!!!! I was affraid it would get bid way up there and I wouldn't be able to afford it but I got it! Verde Rim Sunset.... it is beautiful!
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~~~Diane~~~

I want to shine!