Does the public prefer a natural or man made object? What would be a compromise between the two? In this set I painted a man made object (knobs) and a natural object (plant leaves). But to create the third painting I had to find a happy median between the two. What is between a natural and a man-made object? If it isn't from nature then it's something man made correct? Well there's always a catch. Man creates concepts of natural objects that don't exist the way we think of them. A great example is the atom. The atom is not a spherical ball with rings around it, this rather is man's concept or diagram of something we cannot percieve. It is a simplified version of something far more complicated that is the interworkings of nature. Therefore the third painting in this set reflects this idea. I painted a series of molecules. The set was posted on 11/19/2006- 11/24. Molecules won with a high bid of 12 however the final price of the plant painting was higher.

Remember up to this point all paintings have to be of an object in analogious colors, that takes up the canvas space and has no context.

In this set I used the same object (a cabbage slice) and put it in different contexts to find out what type of background the public preferred. I painted a cabbage slice in context (on the chopping board) out of context (in space) and with no context (blank background). This set did not sell as well perhaps due to marketability. Some paintings are more prone to be put up in a household than others such as the previous painting of kitchen utensils. Since this pattern reoccurrs in the sets, rather than ignoring it, I will incorporate it into my next set.

This set was also the first in which I had an international bidder.

Still working out some of the kinks in the project including managing the Ebay page etc. Yesterday I laid out all the paintings I've done so far and scruitinized what "works" and what doesn't. The changes that really show the progression of "evolution" in paintings are the more obvious ones such as changes in color and subject. Others such as alterations in space or composition are not as easy to see. Therefore I've chosen to continue with some of the more obvious basics in a painting and progress to more conceptual changes in the work. The turning point will be the element of "style" where I will paint a set in impressionism, abstraction, realism etc. From there I hope to incorporate concepts into the work, and manipulate form...Who says they have to be paintings?

Set posted: 10/22/2006- 10/27 This set explored space. I painted an object that either filled up the entire canvas (kitched utensils), used minimal space (bones) or moderately took up space (shell). This was the first set in which two paintings were tied both with 16 bids. Therefore I resorted to the highest price sold to determine "kitchen utensils" as the winner.

This set marks the beginning of breaking out of the domestic shell, as many of the bidders have been family and friends. In this set I recieved the first unknown bid!

Set 2 was posted 10/8/2006 and ran through10/13. (Note that all of these paintings are of objects.) This set focused on color and three schemes were painted: analogous (onions), complimentary (toys), and monochromatic (pepper grinder). Analogous paintings won with 12 bids. In retrospect, this set was probably one of the most influential and obvious alterations of the paintings as from now all, all paintings must be painted in an analogous color scheme.

The project began on 9/24/2006 with the posting of the first set on EBay with the auction terminating on 9/29. This first set explored subject, as three paintings were created one of a landscape, a human figure and an object. The object painting won with the highest number of bids at 17.

Here's an example. Say for example, the first set of paintings reflect subject, (a landscape, an object or a person) and landscapes recieve the most bids; then every painting from then on will be a landscape. If the next set reflects color, I would paint a green landscape, a blue landscape, and a red landscape. If the red landscape recieves the largest number of bids...then every painting from that point on will be a red landscape. The process will be repeated several times, evolving a paintings as a factor of natural selection and human preferences