To Market, to market-the big finish

 Here's a wide shot of the chaos as I continue to work at the dining room table.

 One last look at the inspiration photo from my garden alongside the painting.

 I'll try listing this on eBay first. The next attempt will be on etsy. It isn't about preferring one to the other, it's about using my free listings first.

I've attached the inspiration photo to the back along with a little information on the painting.

Another approach to decision making

I'd paint a while and then scan this again  to help me decide whether it was improving or not and then when it got to this point I paused and took it to Zazzle to try it out on a couple of greeting cards to see how it looks that way. The pale yellow background really helps to set off lettering for anything I want it to say so at least for now it's working for me.
I feel like progress is being made and I FINALLY finished scanning in the last of all my drawings a few minutes ago so I can clear off my worktable and move on to the next project.
The nice thing about doing things this way is that YOU decide when you like a piece. I check the blog for comments every day . When paintings sell on eBay or Etsy it's a pretty good indication that someone liked them and when people buy the images on thing at Zazzle it shows that they like them enough to have or share them so the over used phrase "it's all good" comes to mind. I guess the fact that we're all sick of hearing it doesn't change the fact that sometimes it's just true.

Creativity and the decision making process

I still haven't decided whether or not I'm really fiished with this painting but it's time to move on to other projects so I stuck as much of the painting in the scanner as would fit, so that I could to show it to you here before I list it for sale on etsy. If it sells, that will decide that-won't it? Meanwhile, I "played" with it a bit at http://www.zazzle.com/julia_art*  to see how it would look on a few different products which also will give me some idea of whether I'm finished with it or not.
I'm sending out the last of those painted chairs today (Thanks Thom, I'm off to buy brushes with that) and I'm straightening up the house so I'll have a clear space for a few other things I'm working on.
Yes, some days are more eventful than others but I hope you'll keep reading anyway. you never know when something exciting is going to happen and we sure wouldn't want to miss that.