16 Baker Avenue, Whitefish, Montana ~ (406) 862-3339 ~ contact@samarahfineart.com samarahfineart.com

Altamira Fine Art, 172 Center Street, Jackson, Wyoming (307) 739-4700 CONNECT@ALTAMIRAART.COM

Altamira Fine Art, 7038 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 (480) 949-1256 AZ@ALTAMIRAART.COM

Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101 info@hotelarvon.com

"Turq" digital NFT image of 48"x48" oil over acrylic on panel available at Portion.io

Years ago, I started to just play with acrylic colors on 48”x48” panels. To push the colors further I put on a layer of clear Gesso and shifted to oil paints on top. I realized that I was wasting paint. An Artist friend, Tom Gilleon helped me figure out how to use Photoshop to try different colors. Now I play in paint, photograph, play with it in Photoshop, paint the updates, repeat. On March 4th, 2021 (late I know) I heard about NFTs. A crypto influencer, Suppoman mentions a new crypto, PAINT. He said that PAINT sells art with crypto. So I bought some. Then I looked into PAINT. Turned out the art was NFTs not tied oil paintings. The next day he talks about Portion (PRT) that sells physical art too, so when PAINT went up 600% in three days, I sold half and was able to buy more PRT. I believe Portion will be big. I have lived a charmed life as an early adopter. At the beginning of the internet, a Yahoo search for art brought up the Louvre, me and 38 others. At the beginning of Ebay when there were only 300-600 listings for paintings, I sold all of my surreal period works. Enjoyed being in and selling hundreds of paintings in 27 galleries including in SOHO for 6 years and treated extremely well by all of them. I feel the same luck striking again. I have thousands of digital images. So I picked my favorite to create my first NFT. I minted it on Portion as a digital work. Then created two more NFTs tied to two oil paintings. It took a few days for Portion to move them to the physical catagory. The physical section is mainly galleries. They also dragged “Turq” my digital piece into the physical section. I don’t think I can change the description or price (bargain), I’m fine that. The actual painting looks a little different than the digital. I painted this over a year ago so I don't remember at what stage the digital is. Also, lighting makes a big difference. Here are examples.

"Turq" 48"x48" oil over acrylic on panel in sunlight with a couple twig tips at bottom right

"Turq" 48"x48" oil over acrylic on panel at night

"Turq" 48"x48" oil over acrylic on panel in studio

"Satchel" 14"x18" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Flooded Driveway" 12"x20" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Cliff" 16"x24" oil on canvas
(painting started at the C.M. Russell Museum)

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Rodeo" 16"x28" oil on canvas

Available at Altamira Fine Art;
172 Center Street, JACKSON, Wyoming T. (307) 739-4700 E. CONNECT@ALTAMIRAART.COM

"Little Doggie" 12"x12" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Dick" 12"x20" oil on panel

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

"Mac" 12"x20" oil on panel

Available at Clymer Museum, 416 North Pearl Street, Ellensburg Washington (509) 962-6416

"Lifesaver" 8"x12" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Bee" 8"x12" oil on panel

"Bird in the Hand" 18"x26" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Forest Fire Ferry" 24"x36" oil on canvas

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Proud Easterner Out West" 18"x18" oil on canvas

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

"Sexy Russellette" 12"x16" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

(painted mostly at the C.M. Russell Museum)

"Cracking Up" 18"x18" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Blue Skies From Now On" 18.5"x12" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Attention" 14"x11" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Steve As a Girl" 14"x11" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Spaghetti Circus" (Linda) 24"x 24" oil on canvas

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

"That's All Folks (First Selfie)" 14"x 18" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Successful Launch" (Nancy) 12"x 20" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Looking Around for a New Muse" 24"x 24" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Beating a Dead Horse" (part 3 of 3) (Nancy) 40"x55" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Jumpstart My Heart" (part 2 of 3) (Nancy) 42"x55" oil on canvas

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

"Arrival of the Muse" (part 1 of 3) (Nancy) 55"x40" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Radio City" 40"x55" oil on canvas

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

"Three of Four" 12"x20" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Determined" 12"x20" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Stay" 10"x7" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Venus at Venice" (Nancy) 9"x12" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Pink Doll" 12"x20" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Pedaling Away" 12"x9" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Inbound" 12"x16" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Coco" 14"x18" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Babe in the Woods" (Nancy) 14"x18" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Eggplant" 20"x12" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Crown of the Road" 24"x24" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Board Running" 14"x11" oil on panel

Available at Samarah Fine Art, Whitefish, Montana 406-862-3339

"Signal" 18"x18" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Looking Back" 9"x12" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Training for the Rat Race" 16"x28" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"La Fonda 2" (Nancy) 18"x24" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Chat" (Nancy) 11"x14" oil on panel

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Embassy" 30"x40" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"River City" 16"x28" oil on canvas

Available at Historic Hotel Arvon Gallery, 118 1st Ave S, Great Falls, Montana ~ (406)952-1101

"Brooklyn Minute" 30"x40" oil on canvas

available with NFT ownership proof at Portion.io

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