Special Announcement About Our YouTube Channel That’s Worth Over A Million.
This is so exciting, so fabulous…..
We’re going to have a celebration ….
See the news on our homepage http://www.darrellcrow.com
01.30.12
Seller’s Remorse
A Recent question from one of my students …
Dear Darrell,
Recently I sold seven of my paintings from $30, to $100. I didn’t charge much because I thought I would be a good idea to get my paintings out in the world. In my house no one but myself and husband see them. I also wanted to see if people wanted them enough to buy. I get a lot of positive statements from my friends but, I wanted to see what the public thought. Now I am having seller’s remorse. I miss the paintings. It is like selling part of myself. My question to you is when you first started out did you experience the same thing? Is this just a mother’s not willing to let go her babies?
Susan,
How well I know the feeling…..
This is my BIGEST problems is selling my paintings.
I’ve been selling paintings for 20 years and I still wish I didn’t sell them. I remember many with great longing.
You just have to let go and know that no matter how much you love your paintings, when someone else purchases that painting, they’re really saying ….
“I love this painting…..
I will take care of this painting …..
I want to have it close, so I can always disappear into this painting…..”
It’s comforting to know our customers will actually develop a relationship with this work…..your work.
They’re also saying they’re potential candidates for future painting sales….
Even with this understanding …..
There’s really only one cure for the painting blues…..
Paint more.
Paint more paintings that you’d hate to part with…..
AND never lose the lost feeling whenever you sell a painting.
This feeling helps drive us to become a better and better artists.
It’s what drove me to develop the Colorado Series I just released this past weekend. I released all 16 paintings and four instructional DVDs on how to four of them. Each month, I’ll release more. My favorite, A Happy Day was the first to go. I’ve sold three of the 16 paintings so far and they all go on display in 2 days at a gallery for a month. I’ll be putting up a page on my website soon where the paintings will be offered on-line. I really hate to do this, but I’ve got 180 paintings hanging in my home and my lovely bride says no more. Each I hang now means its replacing a loved one. If you havn’t seen my Colorado Series, there’s a link below.
I’m feeling the remorse of these recent decisions of mine.
I’ll have to create a new family now to love…..
Darrell
01.28.12
First Of The Colorado Series DVDs Released
We just released a new, free video on composing paintings from photos.
In this short video, I go over the process I used in creating A Happy Day.
We've also released the first four DVDs of the Colorado Series.
If you're a YouCanPaintClub.com member, these videos are already up on the club site.
Our offer for the DVDs can be found on our home page http://www.darrellcrow.com
Enjoy.
01.26.12
Colorado Series
For the past two weeks we have been filming and editing the Colorado Series.
Three films have now been posted on the YouCanPaintClub.com A Fourth film will be posted on Monday.
The films include:
The fourth film will be posted on Monday …
If you are a monthly or lifetime club member simply login to http://www.youcanpaintclub.com and watch our new lessons. As a lifetime member, you have access to all of the videos we’ve ever made or will ever make. And that includes the 16 films of our Colorado Series.
We will be releasing our Colorado Series, 4 videos at a time.
Next month about this time we’ll be releasing, Tribute to the Rocky Mountains, High Country, Denver-Cheyenne Trail, and The Seventh Falls.
The Colorado Collection is a magnificent collection of scenes I’ve personally viewed over the past five years in my annual trips to Colorado.
I hope you enjoy painting these scenes as much as I did in preparing them for you. Next week, all my original paintings will be on display in Woonsocket, RI at the Stage Right Studio. Hope to see you there on Meet the Artist Night, Feb. 11, if you’re local to the area.
Now, should you not be a member of the YouCanPaintClub.com we can still arrange for you obtain DVDs of this series.
Stay tuned for aN announcement tomorrow.
If you’re interested in becoming a lifetime member of the YouCanPaintClub.com, you can view the details here.
01.24.12
Today, Jan 25, 2012 Is Really The 43rd.
It’s almost impossible to believe.
43 years married.
We still love each other,
We’re still together.
We still like each other.
Thank you Adriana, for a great life together.
A poem was sent to me last night that I’d like to share with you. You young folks will probably not appreciate it as much as those of us who have reached our sixties.
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01.19.12
The Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Flowers Series is now converted for play on the Mobile Platforms.
We have finished converting and uploading the Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Flower Series on our YouCanPaintClub.com website. These 13 videos have been converted to play on iPad, iPhone, iPod and android platforms.
We are converting all films over the next few days so that all 250 films can be viewed with all consumer computing platforms.
We’ll let you know when each series is now mobile ready.
For those of you unfamiliar with the http://www.youcanpaintclub.com website, this is a membership website whereby members are granted on-line access to all of our videos (DVDs) and all we’ll ever make. We offer two programs, a lifetime membership program and a month-to-month membership program. You can find more information about our membership programs by clicking here
The Colorado Series
My series of painting on Colorado has just been selected for display for a month at the Stage Right Studio through to the end of February.
I’ll let you know when the Artist reception will be held.
Darrell
Mobile Art Club Members
This is to announce to all YouCanPaintClub.com members with portable players such as iPad, iPhone, iPods, Androids, etc… that we have developed and installed a new video player. If you’ve had any trouble in the past playing our videos, you should now be able to. This is our third player update this month.
We’re now converting our videos to the new format and uploading them. All of the Basic Technique videos (BT100) have been converted and most of the Acrylic Basic Technique videos have been converted. Please test these out and report to us by email (darrell@darrellcrow.com) if you have any problems. Throughout the next couple of days we’ll be converting and uploading new films.
For the more technically minded, here’s the changes we made ….
1. Apple video players and PC dominated players video formats have one major difference in file headers. Apple requires file formatting data at the beginning of a file otherwise it loads the entire file into its buffers prior to playing. This means long, long wait times before the video begins to play. PC oriented players make certain default assumptions and begin play immediately.
2. Apple is not an open environment, nor will Apple co-operate with third party developers using their video players to support multiple video formats.
3. Apple makes unpublished changes in both its OS and Quicktime that breaks compatibility with other industry players such as windows media players, etc…..
4. The next generation HTML language (HTML5) solves this problem by breaking video playing formats from being OS or manufacturer dependance.
5 pple made a change last week to their video players that wrecked havac for the third party development suppliers of videos for the iPad, iPhone and iPod players. We were victims of this changed and have spent the last week building a HTML5 player which is now up on our club website. This change does not affect existing PC or desktop Apple players.
6. As such we’ve tossed out the players we added for the Club and are now uploading new video files. It will take us a few days to convert all of our existing video files and upload them. 95% of our club members will not notice any difference aside from page layout changes. The other 5% will see videos now playing on their portable devices.
Let us know….
I just had a great time on my iPad2 watching a couple of the BT100 films: Preparation and Water.
Darrell