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When you look at a painting across a room, or even from just a few feet away, you get a different perspective than you do when you look at it on a monitor. It’s smaller in your field of vision.

And I’m starting to wonder why people take their artwork outside to photograph it. No one buys a painting and hangs it up outside!

However, I dutifully took this one outside and took the photo, then spent a lot of time correcting the color back to what it looks like hanging on a wall inside.

And here it is in the size I normally would have plopped into a blog entry without a second thought. See those warts? The roughness? The imperfections? You can’t see this much detail in person unless you get really close. . . closer than you’d get to anyone’s art but your own, probably.

(Of course, that doesn’t explain why the other artists I showcase here don’t HAVE any warts on their paintings, but I’m not famous or dead yet. Lord willing, I’ll have plenty of time to improve.)

This one (Boat, A.M. Otwell, 2008, Acrylic on Canvas, 11 x 14) is spoken for, but just in case you wanted to buy Pacific Fireworks for exterior use, here’s a photo for you.

(Email for pricing if you’re interested. Paintings stored outdoors will deteriorate significantly faster than paintings stored indoors. Pine needles not included.)

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention this was part of a “Different Strokes” challenge at WetCanvas, where a bunch of artists painted from the same reference photo. I chose to participate because I was drawn to the photo; it reminds me of the fishing trips I used to take with my grandfather, even though the boat really isn’t all that much like his.