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artomat 6.2, originally uploaded by robayre.

I’m proud to say that I am finally closing in on my latest Artomat series. Yeah, I know, it’s been a very looooong time. But when each painting takes so much time, and with such varied interests, it is hard to just commit and sit down and paint back to back to back.
I may be just about done with the miniature paintings, but it will still be a while before I am ready to send them in. Each of these paintings takes so long and has so much invested in it (building each miniature frame, creating a collage and then painting from the collage), that if I were to sell them individually on etsy or where-ever, I’d probably be pricing them no less than $30 each. The last time I contributed to Artomat, I blinked my eyes and they were already sold out. This time I hope to create about 2-300 prints (either silk screened, or gocco-ed) to space out the paintings with. The idea so far is to come up with about 20 to 30 little illustrations, pull 10 to 20 prints from each image, and then detail with watercolor.