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A self-portrait with another self-portrait and my last painting as a background. Nude pastel drawing on watercolor paper, private collection Europe / YouMe, 135×105 cm, oil on canvas, private collection Australia I reluctantly did this self-portrait, it was one of the compulsory themes for my final exam in Portraiture Photography. My teacher told us to come with something interesting, and gave us examples from last years, when the students came up with amazing ideas. I thought for a long time what to do but I didn’t have any good idea, so I postponed this till the last moment. In the end I took my last drawing for Life Drawing with Chris Orchard and my last painting which was done for a solo exhibition in SALA festival and did this. It took me a long time and numerous trials, because the problem was the focusing without having control of the camera. I used the natural light which was coming from the balcony from my right side. The image wasn’t “photoshoped”. / Finally when I got up there in front to talk about my work, I was surprised to see that everyone liked it. It was the least prepared of all my works. They selected it to put it on the school website, and not long after, The Advertiser news paper, called me to publish it. My agent printed it on a large canvas which was sold during SALA festival.
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100×100 cm, oil on canvas, private collection One of my first large portraits of my daughter completed at the beginning of 2006.
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I was having lunch with my beautiful wife the other day at a rather unusual place, right across the road from my office. Never been there before… it was at the Northern Metropolitan Institute of Tafe and they have the special room on the third floor where trainee chefs get to practice their cooking skills and serve to the unsuspecting public. This was the view virtually from the table I was sitting at… the view was way better than the food!
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145×145 cm, oil on canvas, 2007, private collection South Australia I worked for a month at this portrait, the longest I have ever worked on any painting. I kept changing the colors in the hair to match the face. I achieved the expression from the beginning, but the problem was the resemblance with the subject on such a large size painting, when my studio wasn’t too large and didn’t allow to see this from the distance. The portrait was very successful, it was sold even before the opening. So many people asked about it, and because it was gone they bought the other portrait I had in the exhibition… twice! That’s right, the other painting, “Capriccio” was sold twice by mistake. Imagine the disappointment of the young couple who found out the second day they payed for a painting which had been sold already. I succeeded in convincing these people that I can manage to do the painting again. If it was “Adagio” I would have never attempted. But it looked much easier to do Capriccio. Doing a portrait twice is tricky, and I was sure very happy when it was finished.
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Selling Art Through Galleries- My Advice
by Jo O'BrienI recently received an email from a fellow RedBubbler and thought I should share my response… DISCLAIMER: this is just my opinion an…
I recently received an email from a fellow RedBubbler and thought I should share my response… DISCLAIMER: this is just my opinion and advice so don’t take my word as gospel! ____________ Hi Jo, I ‘discovered ’ you on Red Bubble and love your work.. You mentioned you work for a gallery that takes work on consignment. I’m interested in getting some of my work into galleries but don’t know how to. My stuff is here… http://www.redbubble.com/URL So just wondering if you have some advice?? Cheers & thanks, ____________ Hey M First thing is you will notice that the footer of this email has all my phone numbers- please do not hesitate to call me and we can have a proper conversation about this. I have a lot of artists ask me about this and am only happy to help out. I have found that the best way to get your stuff into galleries is to do what you have just done- send an email with a link to your work. Your webiste is basically your CV in the art world – it doesn’t have to be flashy (and redbubble is totally appropriate) but having work that loads quickly is important. You will be lucky if a gallery spends more than 1-2 minutes looking at your site. The other thing you can do is to print out samples of 5-8 images of your work, a biography or artist’s statement and any quirky info that could be used to market you. Put this together into a CV or folio and make several copies. Then you do the door knock thing. If you take this option be aware of a few things- Gallery staff at some places (certainly not us though) can be quite snobby to artists who come off the street and try to sell their wares. I suggest being pleasant but do not try to take up too much of their time. I’m more receptive to a “here’s a copy of my folio, here’s my contact details, i’d love to have a chat some time but obviously now isn’t the best time for you- maybe give me a call if you’re interested?” than a lengthy rehearsed sales pitch. Each gallery will have a slightly different way of doing things. Some will ask for a tax invoice when you bring in art and they will just pay you when it sells. Other will ask for an invoice only once something has sold and they may or may not request a consignment note when you deliver your art. Other places do 90% of the paperwork for you but these are rare. We keep a running file of what work you bring in and if anything gets returned to you because it wasn’t selling. Then if something sells we call or email you the same While I’m on this I should mention that some galleries will not deal with you unless you have an ABN. GST normally doesn’t make a difference but I have heard of a couple of fussy places who have insisted on dealing with GST inclusive artists only- go figure? The other thing that changes between galleries is the mark up of your work. In some of the artist run galleries you can get a 30/70 split of the sale (with the artist being better off). Other places will rip you off majorly and mark up your work by more than 100% and therefore will get more money than you do when it sells. Don’t let people bargain with you for your cut and THEN try to add 10% on for GST- insist on bargaining on the final price inclusive of GST. I make this bargaining process sound difficult but the truth is most places have a policy about how they split things and you either take it or leave it- my advice is more to show you the difference between money grabbing and artist appreciating! Which brings me to my next point- look at the attitude of the gallery. Some places are really picky about what you give them to sell which can mean that they either have no idea OR it could mean that they know their clientelle really well. You just have to be good at reading people to wrok that one out. The places that I would steer clear of are the ones who don’t seem to fussed by what you give them or don’t really care about having a biography or any information about you. They should be interested is selling ‘you’ as a product as well as your stuff. You have to balance out the financial side of things with the personal side. At our galleries we go 50/50 on sales which is considered a bit high. The upside however is that you get a mini cheering squad who will rave about your amazing talents to anyone who glances at your work sideways. We don’t have artists complaining about the higher mark up because we make up for it in branding and promotion you. This is a call each artist has to make for themself. If you’re stuff is considered sellable (which is decided on a case by case basis) we will give it a decent chance of selling- normally I put new stuff on display straight away or in the shop window. Then we see hwat the reaction is. Sometimes we find out very quickly that there is no interest, or everyone loves the image but thinks it is too small, or red, or badly framed or whatever. We aim to have open lines of communcation with our artists so that they don’t keep sending us stuff that no one wants! But in the end if after 4-6 weeks things are not going so well I send things back and invite the artist to try again if they begin experiementing with a different syle or medium. I certainly invite you and any other RedBubble artists to contact me about selling work through our galleries. We are always very keen to see what people have got to offer. Jo O’Brien Work: +61 3 9349 4333 (Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday) Work: +61 3 9827 3338 (Monday)
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A commission, this dog was as handsome as they come and posed well for the photo I worked from. Hairy dogs do however take a lot longer than smoothies. Mixed media original about 18” x 12”
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Acrylic and metallic paint on canvas, 46” x 38”. This is a commissioned abstract work for a client re-staging her home for sale. I created this expressionistic piece to tie a black, white and tan gallery art wall together and to become the focal point of the room. / I call the work “Outside The Lines”, in that the strong black lines create structure and balance and yet the color does not conform to the boundaries. The wild movement of the colors contrast and create chaos within the design of symmetry.
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135×105, oil on canvas, private collection Australia “YouMe” is half my daughter half me. The pink is the beauty and the joy of life when you are a child. As only children know true, pure happiness and live in the moment. The unknown is the darkness, my search and my struggle for an authentic living. This painting is used as a background for my self-portrait photograph / Self-portrait
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for my bff over in thailand-she needs art.
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Painted 2006. Acrylic on canvas – original sold. PRIVATE COMMISSIONS / Prices start at $200 and increase depending on size, complexity, etc. I work entirely from photographs. Please contact me for more info. email: wildeportraits@iprimus.com.au
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this is a digital manipulation I’m working on. when it’s done I’ll be painting it with oils onto canvas as commissioned by my sister for a Christmas present for her husband who proposed to her way back when in France. so far I’ve used a few different photos to make this the way she asked but i’m thinking about pushing the archway further back and putting a fancy french street lamp in there for perspective? i dunno. depends what she says about it at this stage, since she’s the one buying it.
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This is one of my recent commissions to turn people’s children into fairy portraits. There are more details on my website and I also do Adult portraits too. If you are interested or know somone else who would like to commission me then mail me direct for more details or visit my website :-)
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Acrylic on canvas. Original sold. This has been very popular, with 5 people so far commissioning similar paintings. I do love painting tigers every now and then for some reason.
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135×105 cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, private collection Melbourne / Cloud 9 as a state of pure happiness or stage of Buddhist enlightenment. This is a portrait of my daughter I am very fond of, I love the way you can see her joy of life on her face.
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I’ve been on a mission to conquer the abstract-a true measure of an artist, I think, as there is no ‘reality’ to compare it too, no likeness to draw close to. Just you. You decide to continue, or when to stop. When to use the ‘f’ word-as we used to tease our sculpture teacher>there is no such thing as ‘finished’. I think there is. the energy passes-it’s time-if you go over, it become overworked and pushed, forced. And therein lies the art.
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This winter’s been awesome! We’ve had more snow this year than I can remember ever having, but the kids are getting fed up! lol I don’t know how this old bike made it out to the backyard but I’m sure one of the kids were frustrated that they couldn’t ride the thing in the deep snow.
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/ Anonymous donation to further my work. / Share my work with friends & family. This is an adaptation of ” View to the Amalfi Coast ” by Carl Fredrik Aagaard of Denmark, 1833-1895. It was commissioned by M. Morris in Dallas, TX who contacted me and asked if I could do a mural on tumbled Italian marble. The 12” x 19” tiles were shipped to me and Ms. Morris and I collaborated via e-mail regarding how she wanted the image portrayed. It was hand painted and airbrushed using acrylic and tile sealer. The finished mural was shipped back to Dallas where it was installed onto a kitchen wall.
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Oils on canvas. This is the second in a series of commissions – there are seven children in this family and I am doing one of each of them. My camera has trouble sometimes with the brightness and saturation of my colours – I h aven’t messed with it to make it brighter, it really is that red. She is very pretty and only 17 (at the time of the portrait.) The sitting was… amusing.
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Portrait of Father and Daughter – my first Commissioned work. Please feel free to critique by BM! Thankyou! Colour original converted to B&W in PS Elements,
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Pastel on Sennelier La Carte
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Mixed media on patterned paper. Commissioned work for Lovegeek magazine
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145×115 cm, acrylic on canvas, artist’s collection
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120×105 cm, acrylic on canvas, Private Collection One of my favorite portraits, it belongs to a private collection in Adelaide. I worked on a red background with yellow, white and black.
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