Yesterday I had a pig day. Two people inquired about buying this pig painting I made in 2011. It's hanging in my house in Morelia. It's $2800USD, my price for a 40x40in painting. It's okay if I never part with it, because I'm 99.9% positive that I will never paint another pig. However, it took me all yesterday to realize that.
The first person who was interested -- a super positive person who I would really like to please wanted the same pig but with a different color background, no onions, and in a rectangle.
There was a time I would have been eager to comply with such a request. But that was in my food painting days. Honestly, after thinking about it, I don't think I could make this pig, or any pig, or these chilis or corn-on-the-cobs again. I was very inspired to paint this, but now my inspiration is elsewhere, and I don't want to do commissions that will stress me out. Trying to recreate this pig would definitely do that. So, if it comes up again, I must politely decline.
In the meantime, I don't like to disappoint, so for my second interested person, or anyone else, I'm putting my pig on my Pixels.com account for a limited time. And anyone who wants a print or a coffee mug, or a pig greeting card can create it there. (I suspect that my images have sometimes been stolen, so I won't leave it up forever.)
Here are a couple of photos from a show in 2013 of my food paintings and one of me working on the pig painting. You can see the face of the pig went through some iterations.
The pig painting is really titled "Pozole."