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Link to shopping cart yields miniature icon

Original Size ArtCart - Digital Art

When I first built my website, the shopping cart stayed open as a separate window - so it didn’t seem necessary to have a link to it in any fashion. When someone bought - there it was.

Recently, I was on a site and noticed a little icon for a shopping cart - nothing special, but for some reason it made an impression. And when I checked how my shopping cart works now, I realized  I needed to have a link. Gone are the days of a separate window.

So I had a little fun creating this miniature cart and throwing some art inside. I actually took some miniature sections of some of my work and put it in the cart.  

But at the size on the website… no one would ever know.  But that is why I am including the original size here. Plus I think the size of the original work is interesting.

I have found that something too big - won’t look good small and something too small won’t look good big. Though there is incredible flexibility within the digital art medium, it is not without its limits.

And that is probably good.

See Also

• All Works on Sale
  a jumping point for all works which can go in the new art cart
• Veerle’s blog | Pushing Illustrator and Photoshop to its limit
  There are limits and then there are limits - amazing what some people strive to do with technology

Small pieces are contribution to community art

Sunset Field Hand - Miniature - Digital Painting 2005

This piece was created for a  show at the Monterey Museum of Art.  The work among others by 329 other artists is up until the end of the year.  This is the size of the piece - the image prints 3.5 by 5.5 inches and was framed in a 5×7 frame - matted like a big piece.

I enjoyed making billowing quilted looking maroon sunset clouds. The tractor driver waiving is another important element of the piece - for it is very rare that a field worker doesn’t wave and acknowledge your presence. I admire this quality.

As far as the show - it is a fun event with kind a of raffle for each piece to raise money for the museum. My piece was displayed next to a very well known artist - who quietly lives in Salinas - David Ligare.  His work is quite incredible and is in numerous museums around the country/world.  His oil still-life of a lemon in this show makes you want to reach out and grab it.

I was glad my piece has enough space from his and also flattered that it is so close.  It amused me that I could say my work was hanging next to his at the MMA. 

Though I have a lot of confidence in my own work, I have not achieved anything close to his level of recognition and am not so presumptuous to think I have the right to claim anything more than being a fellow Salinasan (if that’s even the word).

See Also

• Monterey Museum of Art - Monterey, CA
  Art Museum’s Website
• David Ligare: Post-Modern, Neo-Classic American Artist
  Gain familiarity with David Ligare’s work and views