I wanted to share this inside a blog because it is so very odd like that things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and only just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to the side inside the studio. 2-3 weeks ago, I needed a photo that I wished to paint, since i was thinking about life’s difficulties and struggling to overcome. The style was of a mountain, even as are decreasing through the top. I knew I wanted it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. I really created a canvas. I knew in advance that this painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.
I was only a couple hours with it on the first day. The other day, I took the painting when camping towards the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!
We happened to be discussing frames this also one inch particular that people had just acquired located mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!
But here’s the location where the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies ah. About the botton of the frame was a brass label. It had, up to now framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.
Sound strange!?
1. The Classical impressionist artist I had carried out in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, waiting for new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in life, right onto your pathway over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit an element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we hadn’t come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! We have no idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is connected to the back of the painting and you will be sold together with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!
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