Creating a background for Etsy & eBay photos
For months now, the background for my paintings in my Etsy and eBay listings has been a huge white abstract painting that I took off the wall in my living room. 😀 It worked great, but when I was cleaning up my studio, I decided it was time to put the painting back where it belonged. I mean, I painted it to be hung on the wall, not used as a background. lol
I found a big sheet of white poster board hiding under the painting. Ah, yes..I suddenly remembered why I was using the painting as a background. The poster board I had been using had paint smears on it. It was kinda a pain to edit it out of every single photo in Photoshop. I had saved the poster board, so I could make a new background with it.
I started out by laying down some blue and black paint. After it dried, I added some pink. I was just throwing the paint down with a palette knife. I wasn’t planning or being strategic in how I was laying down the colors.
I knew I was going to end up painting over it in white. I only wanted a little bit of the color to show through, so the background wouldn’t dominate my paintings.
Acrylic abstract
Floral No 310
Available here
I added more white, and tweaked it a bit more. The paint was thick in places, so I let it dry all afternoon. Then I took a practice shot with one of my paintings on top of it to see how I liked it. It gets a thumbs up from me. Bink!
The only thing I don’t like is that the poster board warped under the weight of the paint. You probably can’t tell, but the painting isn’t lying flat. To fix it, I turned the poster board over, spritzed it with water, placed some wax paper on top, and then heavy books to weigh it down. It worked, but it’s something to keep in mind if you try this for yourself.
Edited: sorry I’m running late with this post. I was busy yesterday packaging up paintings to ship out. My huge clearance art sale is ongoing in my Etsy shop. Some prices have been slashed 50%, so be sure to check it out. I’ll be adding more paintings every day.
Thank you to everyone who’s been purchasing my artwork. Please remember that once a painting has been sold, it’s gone forever. Don’t wait or you might miss out. <– This just happened to one of my customers, and when she came back to buy the painting a couple hours later, it was already sold.
From what I’ve been hearing, these paintings will make swell Christmas gifts. 🙂
This oil pastel artist on YT is so darn fun. I’m literally lmao at his antics, and skits. Seriously, since I found him a couple weeks back, my quarantined life has improved so much. I now have something to look forward to..his videos coming up in my feed. His silly positive vibe is much needed right now, and you gotta see the portraits he creates using Crayola pastels. Wow!! Crayola needs to hire him, guurrrl, that’s all I’ll say. I mean, seriously!!
And, this artist, who is only 18, and taking a gap year from college because of covid..omgosh, amazzzzing work from both of these young men.