Amazing custom fine art photography
While serving an LDS mission in Colorado Springs, CO, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Chuck and Terri Sale at the LDS Employment Resource Center. It was a great experience, due in large part to being able to work with Chuck and Terri.
I dicovered just recently that Chuck is a fine art photographer. He has an impressive collection posted online that you really need to see. I am extremely envious of his talents and the opporunity he has to apply his talents to his surroundings. Colorado is an incredibly beautiful place; an amazing canvas for any photographer.
Chuck recently posted to his blog an announcement and description of a new venture that both he and his wife are starting. Here’s an excerpt from his post.
My wife, Teri, and I have long been a creative team. Teri is skilled in matte-cutting, custom mounting, and framing of fine art photography. She is also a master stain-glass worker. I am an oil painter, watercolorist, and fine art photographer.
We wanted to give gifts that were uniquely personal, gifts that would be cherished for a lifetime. Our still-life arrangements grew out of this desire.
Now we have made these custom art pieces available to the public. We create the still-life images; combine them to form the symbolic statement; and then matte, mount, and frame them. We sign the matte before mounting it behind glass in a sealed frame. Finally, we package and ship to the buyer.
I am extreemly impressed by the still-life arrangements Chuck has posted online, and would love to have their work hanging in my home and be able to give their work to others as an amazing gift. Check out what he’s posted online. I’m sure you’ll have no problem coming up with various ideas that they can turn into amazing works of art for yourself and others.
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Very cool photography. The word association thing is great.
Thanks, Joel, for your kind words about the venture Teri and I are launching and about my other work. Thank you too, Willis.
An artist I studied under used to say, “No painting is complete until it is sold.”
This has multiple meanings, the least important of which having to do with the artist making a living. The much deeper meaning is that to be sold, a work of art must have touched someone and that the person so touched wanted to hold as his own a piece of the artist’s work and therefore of the artist himself.
I own several paintings by artists I know. I cherish the brush strokes in these paintings more than the images formed by those strokes. The brush strokes were made by the hand of someone I know. With that familiar hand they selected a brush and moved it up, down, right, left to get the thing just right. This record of effort and achievement, the tiny ridges of dried oil paint, are the great value to me. I have a piece of the best part of each of these friends, and that is what I cherish.
All of this to say how much I am pleased that you were touched.
Chuck Sale
Chuck Sale Photography
By the way, Joel, your blog site is excellent, just like the work you did for us at the Employment Center. I consider it our great good fortune that you concluded your mission with us.
I am stumbling along with my blog site in Google. Your critique and suggestions are welcome.
Chuck