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This week on LLMartin Artist Best Offer Group on Face Book:

Collection #1 "Pets Some People Have"

Starts Aug 22  closes Aug 24th at 5pm EDT

It is my way of giving back to fans of my work. And it also helps me raise money for  a project our non-profit is working on as a portion of certain sales is designated to that.

Here is how it works... you  join the group Here: 
LLMartin Artistic Services Best Off Group


Then when a collection comes up, usually lasting 3 to 5 days, You make an offer on the items in the collection. There are usually 10 to 12 items in each grouping. The items offered will usually be original works on paper in graphite or watercolor, paintings on canvas or in house prints from my original work. You can make as many offers as you want until the item is closed at 5pm on the day stated on the collection.  You then have 5 days to make the payment via paypal. (If you do not have paypal please contact me before you place an offer.) If your offers are accepted please complete the transaction before you make offers on the next collection. 

During that 5 days anyone can make a second chance offer on any item that has no offers. 

You can read the full details here: Details of the Make your Best offer Group

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The Artist was Surprised at This Result!

Painting the simple Junco

Junco in Holly
Available at The ACEO Store on Etsy

Here in this part of Virginia we have a lot of little gray birds that flock around our feeders. Called juncos, they are fearless tiny birds slightly bigger than chickadees. In Variations of gray mostly slate gray on the top and a buff color on their bellies they will persevere against squirrels, jays and the most fearsome of weather conditions.

When I was painting the winter birds for the 2014 ACEO’s of Christmas I was trying to figure out how to make a gray bird in a mostly gray winter world pop and standout.  After painting several cardinals I thought why not place a junco in a holly bush and let the berries be the counterpoint to all the dark colors.

Well it worked, I think, very well. Here we have the little junco in the holly bush. Then I got a surprise. When I looked at the enlarged version of the miniature painting I suddenly realized that not only did it work but when you looked at the brush strokes at first they seemed as if they were very stylized but then there was a sense that there was a snow storm with a slight breeze as the little bird balanced on the branch waiting its turn at the feeder. 

The leaves seemed to have that blurred movement to them that one got when the sutter speed on the camera doesn’t quite keep up with the movement.  It was movement I didn’t expect to capture in this small work of art.

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