California Collection paintings 31-50
It really helps tip-tapping away at the weekly article, putting the pause button on during The California Collection - 1 painting per day for 80 days (full album of the collection developing here)
Since my last article we've shifted a few of the collectable and fun sticker packs with sheet A....
and sheet b...
Combining together for a fun gift packed with good vibes!*
*Heavy duty dishwasher tested with the idea of making the art accessible for all!
A few more dollar and stripes prints have been packed, wrapped and despatched......
Going once! Dollar & Stripes print delivered to your door : limited editions of 52 along with a Biggy Smalls Disruptive....
this being edition 420/50 (long story) delivered to a new client in Sacramento that literally hit our instagram feed with 'I'd like to buy one, please"
Even in full flow of one painting per day for 80 days, #30 - 50 of The California collection a private commission landed, taking 7 days entitled 'Passion Storm'....
For a delightful lady up in Eldorado hills, not a big fan of the dollarsign, helping taking my work to a new level...
It was a case of making it work in addition to painting one per day, at a minimum...
From the heart...
personally delivering it...
and even being there to witness the curation all happening alot sooner than I'd expected! Highlight of paintings 31-50 are as follows as the California collection reaches over the halfway stage...
#33 Avocado Bravado - a nod to one of my fave food here, over 2 billion are grown and consumed in California annually!
#36 Wheatfields of 36, a nod to back home....
#47 Candy Wrappers with all those delightful e-numbers and colour....
#49 McDonalds Big Mac at 50 featuring both sides of the special coin Maccy D's launched some 50 years after the Big Mac was launched 29th July, a global currency for a global icon - saved in the name of art....
Here's the overview....
Painting down in Monterey....
Then up at Lake Collins....
Van to tent and on the banks...
#50 Intel at 50
Painted as the world record for the most drones displayed at one time was going on at Folsom, it was so well timed....
With this Johnny Cash mash up playing pretty much daily....
Above all, it's been a brilliant start to the first third of the Californian collection as Art tells a story in vulnerable glory and it's been great partnering with CB Photography & Videography...
Recording the first 50 paintings with professional help - great to put the pause button on!
A man with a fine taste for music aswell as photography!
Thanks for keeping up to date, my next weekly article : Paintings 51-66 to be featured with associated highlights . In the meantime feel free to message me / email jim@dollarsandart.com for your early bird on Dollar & Stripes and / or Lucky Charms.
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