On Sunday this past week, I added my signature to this painting and am calling it FINALLY done. I’ll explain the face-planting after the painting.
Title: Old Shed, Red Sunset
Size: 36 x 24″
Medium: Ozark pigments in oil, handmade oil paints using Ozark sources and outsourced pigment sources
Matrix: gesso board
Pigment sources: foraged sandstones, red clay, soot, thyme, magnitite, titanium dioxide, yellow and green pigment powders from EarthPigments.com
Price: (unframed) $3600 once ready to ship, discounted to $2760 until then
All of my paints are handmade and most of them from foraged Ozark sources. Foraged pigments are collected, crushed, washed, and processed into pigment powders.
It needs to dry thoroughly, and after that it needs some more oil to saturate the spots where the oil has ‘sunk in’. Once everything has the same amount of sheen to it, it needs to dry again. And after that, I’ll take it to be scanned and then will varnish it. After which it will need some more drying time.
Face-Planting the Ground
That’s just a creative way to say I fell and nearly busted out my front teeth. Luckily, instead, my lips and nose got the brunt of it, and my knees.
Monday evening when I got in from work, I went out to feed the horses their hay as I usually do. Except this time it was dark and since the ground was wet I had on my clunky muck boots. And I had a headlamp that wouldn’t sit on my head properly.
So when I came back in through the barbed wire, my jacket snagged and I tripped while still between the barbed strands. In the process of hitting the ground, I pulled the fence off of the tree, ripped my jacket, and experienced the whole event in slow motion.
I hit the ground first with my knees, and then toppled over face-first into the rocky ground because my hands were occupied with trying to hold my headlamp on my head. I must have instinctively closed my mouth, otherwise I would literally have had a mouthful of dirt and rocks and probably would have broken a tooth or a few.
Instead, I have a nose and upper lip that will most likely be bruised and unsightly by the time Friday gets here, when I have an open house. It’s my first open house to attempt, so yay. However, it’s also on Halloween, so if my face does bruise too much, I can always play it off as part of a costume, I guess.
Anyway, that’s my news for the day 🙂
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phone: (479) 409-3429
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I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
If you’re interested in buying or selling in rural northwest AR, get in touch with me by phone, text, or email. I’m happy to help! I have a separate website for my real estate blogging and information at WildOzarkLand.com.
All of my artwork is available in prints, and where originals are available, they are for sale. You can find all of that over at shop.WildOzark.com.
Call me “Roxann” or “Madison”, either one works.
For pretty much everything online, I go by Madison Woods, a pen name I adopted when I first began writing and then later with my art. For real estate, I use my real name, Roxann Riedel. And for my fiction, there’s yet another pen name: Ima Erthwitch.