Painting for Charity
It find it ironic that artists are often asked to donate their work to charity events, when we’re among the lowest paid professions. I wasn’t asked to donate a painting for my company’s upcoming silent auction, but I wanted to. I’m building a “Silent Auction Blog” for them. It’s actually a very interesting reuse of blogging software: I take the “Comments” functionality and morph it into a bidding mechanism. Instead of entering a comment, you enter a bid. Looks like it will work well. The software we use at work is Moveable Type. I image my employer wouldn’t mind sharing the code I wrote, so if you use Moveable Type and would like to build a silent auction blog, let me know.
Jeff Hayes said,
September 18, 2006 @ 4:05 am
Ed - WOW - that is just gorgeous! Is this new?
Ed Terpening said,
September 18, 2006 @ 4:22 am
Thanks, Jeff. Yes, it’s new. Just painted a couple of days ago. Wanted something that communicated “hope” for our company’s fundraiser auction.
Oh, and your painting is varnished now and hanging in our breakfast nook. Beautiful work!
Peter Yesis said,
September 18, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
Absolutely a stunning piece! I saw it on the dailypainters blog first and had to visit your blog again today to look.
Great job!