It's been a while...

It's been a while since the last time I posted... here's a brief update:
the past couple months have been pretty hectic for me & my family but things are finally calming down now. We just bought a house and have moved! and now we're getting things unpacked and placed and trying to adjust and create a new flow to our lives. Things are coming together great. As far as my painting goes -- I'm working on creating a new paint booth area at our new place and hopefully I'll be fully-functional asap!

Sold A Few Paintings Over The Weekend!

Over this past weekend I entered a show that I haven't participated in before... and I'm usually reluctant and skeptical when approaching a new show because I never know what to expect. But this time, although it was off to a slow start, I'm really glad that I was there because it ended up being well-worth it in more ways than one!

The booth space for this show was free, so there was no real harm in entering -- other than that of dragging all of my setup gear out for only the 2nd time this year, and dragging my family out to an event that wasn't far from home, but too far to be close. So I was definitely hopeful that at least selling 1 painting would make it worth while... not that I don't enjoy the experience of it all, because I really do, but selling definitely outweighs experience pretty much every time!

Well, to keep a long story relatively reasonable in length, it was a great time... the weather was beautiful, the breeze kept me on my toes, my family was there along with my mom and my brother's family... I had good friends stop by to see my work, I painted for a while, gave a pretty good demonstration of the techniques that I use (despite the dry heat that was making the paint set up way faster than usual)... and by the end of the day I had sold 4 paintings! (two of which were my large 20x30 on FoamCore, one 14x22 on Posterboard, and one 11x14 on Posterboard)

What's funny is that no matter how long I've had a piece, and no matter how many times I show a piece then put it away at the end of the show, it's still hard to let go of them when someone decides that they want to purchase one. It's funny how they become my favorites, and when they get bought I really just hope that whoever buys them will enjoy them as much as I do/did and I always hope that they end up proudly on a wall to be admired, giving them a life of their own beyond my efforts of displaying them from show to show. This past weekend I sold some favorites... my absolute favorite large space painting, one of my favorite large black & white nature paintings, my absolute favorite medium sized space painting, and one of my newest favorites -- a small nature painting that I had just painted early last week... guess I'll have to get to work so that I can fill the holes in my display!

~munden
11x14 on Posterboard

New Images In The Galleries

I've just added and updated the site... I've added 3 new images to the NATURE Gallery, 3 new images to the CITYSCAPES Gallery, and 1 new image to the MISC Gallery. I've also updated the home page with a larger version of one of my new paintings, although I'm happy to announce that it is NOT for sale because it was purchased over this past weekend!

Hopefully everyone is enjoying the site -- I'll post more when I get a chance!Thanks for reading...
~munden

I've added and updated my site...

MundensPaint.com has received a couple of new upgrades and also has a few new images added to the galleries!

First and foremost, I've added a new section to the Home page that will feature one of my recent paintings. I realize that there's a sidebar on the right of every page of my site that shows 4 recent paintings, HOWEVER, I wanted to have a main image on the Home page that would do the same thing, except on a larger scale. That way there's a new fresh image on the Home page that will change every so often as I add new work to the site.

I've also added a couple of new Landscape paintings to the NATURE Gallery that I recently finished and finally got good digi pics of them to post here on the site. On top of that I've also been working on a few new landscapes for a side project, AND have also been working on some new Cityscapes and skyline paintings! As soon as I get good pics and if I have enough of them to show then I will be adding a new gallery just for Cityscapes!

^-^ Click the image above to go to the Galleries! ^-^

I painted today... 2 new pieces...

I painted today... 2 new pieces... both are nighttime nature paintings...

As soon as I am able to get some digi pics of them I'll definitely be adding them to the galleries!

~munden

I've posted new work in my online galleries...

I realize that this is a bit overdue, but I finally posted some new work in my online galleries... It's not exactly recent - it's paintings that I did during a couple of warm days near the end of January and in mid-February. It took a while for me to get good pics of them because the weather's been bad and I always take pics of my work outside - it's usually the best light and seems to offer the best visual representation of the colors in my paintings.

Although you're definitely more than welcome to go to the galleries and have a look around at EVERYTHING, the easiest way to view my most recently added work is to click on "GALLERIES"... then just above my various albums you'll see a link that says "Recently Added"... Click that and it will pull up all of my images in order from most recent to oldest... and the top 8 are the ones I added last night. There's also a block of images on the right of every page that shows Recent Photos, but it doesn't always pull images from the most recent batch of uploads.

Unfortunately the work that I added last night isn't anything too dramatic or technically demanding... it was actually more of me just trying to stay active and in practice in hopes of surviving the cold winter with some skills still in tact. I waited for warm days (above 50!) to where I could paint a few paintings without having to overload my remaing space heater (I lost the other one just before Christmas - poor little guy).

But now the warm weather is finally here... well - it was anyway! It's been in the 60's & 70's for the past few weeks... yet today we're supposed to be hit with a WINTER STORM, 4 to 8 inches of snow... and then warm again within a day or two. Gotta love that Midwest weather!

Items for sale through my site...

I have recently added a new "FOR PURCHASE" section to my site. It currently will only showcase 5 of my works at a time and I will continue to update new items and switch them around from time to time. HOWEVER there is still plenty of paintings in my Galleries that are available yet may not be listed on my For Purchase page. If there is a painting that you're interested in that is not listed on the For Purchase please contact me through the CONTACT page and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks!