Thread: Suspended Crappies ~ Another Drawing by Special K

Originally Posted by Fastdrop

I sell home decor to Hobby Lobby and my advise is to listen to his wife. I understand what you had in mind but she is correct in that the paintings you make need to have more effect to them. Beautiful crappie no doubt and very realistic but when she puts it on the wall she just doesn't want to see crappie. There needs to be some back other things going on in the painting. Shad etc.... not just crappie sitting in a painting. Just my opinion if you are looking to sell them.

I have thought about getting with an artist to do these type of paintings for the Man cave area for HL. For them I would need a cool painting with a saying on it... I have thought a father and a son in a old vintage boat with cane poles fishing ---- with a saying "memories of a life time" on it.

Thanks for your input Fastdrop and I really appreciate hearing from someone with your connections to Hobby Lobby... as HL is one of my favorites stores... and where I get 90% of all of my art supplies. As stated in my initial text... I posted this particular piece for the purposes of showing that I believed I had solved my color retention problems that I had been struggling with when taking digital photos through the editing process and uploading the images to any platform when I always seemed to loose something color-wise.

This piece was not intended for sale... nor will it ever be intended for sale. My interest in posting it was solely in sharing the fish images on that particular backdrop and to get feedback on the color quality (retention) of the piece. Nonetheless, I do appreciate any feedback that I can get... and wholeheartedly agree with you and Herewego's wife that paintings always need more detail and not less as far as structure and other elements of interest to make them as interesting or engaging as possible to the viewer.