I did these two paintings this year, “Girlfriends” in January and “Lost Somewhere in France” in July. Both paintings took over an hour to paint, a terrible thing for me if you ask me, since I was fast at painting. A small 6″ x 6″ and even an 8″ by 8″ would have taken me…
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If you sell your artwork on eBay you HAVE to read this!
Last year around March 2007, eBay, during one of the many ‘improvements’ no one asked for a glitch or new feature was brought up to the table. What this so called glitch does is place a revised listing at the beginning of the queue regardless of the remaining time left on the listing along with…
Continue Reading...Signing a painting… is that enough??
Countless times over the years I found people contacting me asking me if the painting they bough is mine since the signature reads MValenti. 100% of those times the painting is not and there is no way for the owner of the painting to find out who’s from as the only thing that identifies the…
Continue Reading...Tips and Techniques – Part II
Welcome to my second part of Tips and Techniques. I hope you enjoyed the first part! I had many emailing me for more private tips. I thank you all your emails and your comments, they are really appreciated. Lets continue where we left…. ==Solvents and Mediums== As a person with asthma that also has three…
Continue Reading...Tips and Techniques – Part I
I have being getting lots of questions from other artists wanting to jump into the daily painting and artists asking for tips, so I decided to start a series of posts just for my artists friends out there. I’m starting with a list of the materials or tools I use, ’cause I think they are…
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