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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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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 self-portrait with another self-portrait and my last painting as a background. Foreground: Nude, pastel drawing on watercolor paper, private collection Europe / Background: YouMe, 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 creative and interesting, and gave us some amazing examples from previous years. I left this till the last moment because nothing interesting crossed my mind. In the end I took my last drawing for Chris Orchard’s class and my last painting and did this. 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 this work was everyone’s favorite. It was the least prepared of all my works. The commission 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 South Australian Living Artists Festival.
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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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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 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. Many people asked about it, and because it was sold 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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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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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 I created 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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A pencil portrait of a horse. Drawn on A4 Canson 240gm paper with Derwent graphite pencils. To date this is my most viewed drawing with an amzing 2606 views so far!
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I can transform you or your family to the wildest of worlds. They make unique Christmas presents. Commission me. Monk stock / http://peace-of-art.deviantart.com/art/Robed-6-99435490
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A variety of mediums, subjects, time and styles.
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Artist: Liu Tao Medium: Sculpture – Fine Rhyme In Stainless Stell Price: $18,000.00 / Dimensions: 80×50 x 40 inches
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Commissioned Memorial Portrait…Man dressed in Marshal arts clothing / apx. 40inch x 50inch / Archer drawing paper cold press 2ply off the roll because I needed to get the size I wanted and it didn’t have too much tooth to it. Graphite spread nicely on it especially the background that took forever building to get the contrast without a shine. Light and contrast are an important part of my work because it creates depth…It is also “Where” you put your light that creates a three dimensional effect of realism… This is one of my best works. I felt his presents when I did this piece. I had a real sense of peacefulness…It flowed very easlily…there was no stuggle. / I am a realist In my artwork.. I do a lot of portraits ..so it is important that I capture that person in different ways…Not just in visual but also expression in the subjects eyes…There must be something my viewer can identify with that will draw them in…Someone they will recognize…someone they know well. / I used graphite from 2h to 9B and charcoal for really dark areas / This piece”Featured” in Fine Art / Feature Faturnity / Graphite Pencil Drawing / One on One fine art of portraiture / Back in Black / Dimensions / placed in two challenges / First work Featured in RB early Feb. 2009
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Produced as a Commission: sorry the original is already sold. A fauvist attempt at Calla Lillies ….. / / / ! / A selection of products in my Zazzle store: More choices from Zazzle: Wear My Art – Check out Female Contemporary Art on Apparel here: My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © taiche. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited / See more of taiche at ZAZZLE / Baby Custom T-Shirts :dress that baby up with a special design on a custom t-shirt, long sleeve or onesize / Kids Custom T-Shirts .from organic t-shirts to long sleeve shirts, boys, girls, and toddlers can fill their fashion needs with a one-of-a-kind custom t-shirts for kids. Check out the latest organic t-shirts, sweatshirts, and girls shirts. And plenty of styles for toddlers too! Aprons / Bags / Buttons / Cards / Hats / Keds Shoes / Keychains / Magnets / Mousepads / Mugs / Postage / Postcards / Stickers / T-Shirt / Ties* Selected works of art from my 2009 Portfolio Do not forget to check out my range of fully customisable calendars. Simply let me know your choice of images and months to show them and I will create especaillly for you. You can choose from any of my images. /
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This is a commissioned portrait of Collette 24×24 inches / acrylic on canvas
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Acrylic on Canvas 75×100cm. (Commission – Original Sold) A snippet from my blog 21 April 2009 / Painting Commission – Claudia’s Gift A couple of months ago I was asked to do a rather unusual commission. I say unusual because the buyer saw a painting of mine on the internet. They considered purchasing it, but after much deliberation decided instead to commission a work. The original inspiration for their commission being my painting ‘Between Takes’ as pictured below. / ! / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/product:greeting-card/view:preview/2340565-4-between-takes.jpg! The young buyer (through her Mum’s wallet) had several requests and thankfully they put them all together in a brief for me which I worried about being able to stick to. / Here’s a snippet of that brief: / She likes the female in Between Takes because she is: / -Pretty, elegant and sassy with delicate features, yet she is fun, bold and out there / -She is wearing a very fashionable/designer/funky outfit (very youthful appearance with use of the striped legs) / -She loves the white fluff of the skirt, it is interesting and softens the outfit beautifully / -it is a full body painting and not just a head and torso / -it is simple and clean with not too much distraction, it is very much about the girl / -she’s not wearing any jewellery / -fun dramatic/theatrical feel / -bold yet delicate/beautiful detail / -she loves the colours and in particular the lime green/yellow background / Colours she likes: / -pink/purple/lime yellow/lime green/black/gray/silver/white / Other Preferences: / -Medium length layered hair/colour similar to By The Light Of The Silver Moon (no fringe/medium brown with purple/other coloured streaks) / -Eye colour being hazel/green / -Devon Rex Tigerlily Purple (larger female cat) / -Cat not to dominate painting / We did wonder if we could incorporate fashionable fairy wings in her designer outfit (fluff and silver leaf perhaps)?! Commissions can be difficult because they normally come after a painting that has been painted intuitively. I tend to just paint and enjoy the process and let my instincts lead me. With commissions there is much more work on a conscious level – and the challenge is in being able to please the buyer, stick to the brief, maintain a sense of spontanaity and most importantly not to compromise one’s own style and enjoyment. After all, a painting done without love and enjoyment is not a painting worth owning. One only needs to look at the thousands of cheap mass produced paintings being produced in Asia and then later easily discarded when the decor is changed. I strongly feel that work of this type diminishes the value of one off pieces painted with love and care, not to mention that these are potential artists with much to offer the world, churning our mass produced cheap pieces because of the need to support their families. / / So, with all this in mind, and me being well and truly a month over the patient client’s requested deadline, I present to you “Claudia’s Gift”. One thing must be said and that is that the photograph doesn’t do this painting justice. The small elements of silver leaf, pearlescent effect and subtle textures are lost and flattened out in the digital image. However, I think the photograph still enables the viewer to enjoy an overall sense of the completed artwork. Thank You as always for visiting… and stay safe. x Carmen. Please visit my blog and if you like it sign up as a follower. This is where I ramble and muse and put on display much of my daily activities as an artist.
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Hunter
by Karen HullCommissioned miniature portrait of a gorgeous ginger cat called Hunter. This artwork was done with Faber Castell Polychromos, Lyra skin colours, and Prismacolor Verithins on drafting film
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Another commission from same said friend in “Commission 10”. A gift for a friend of hers. H liked her profile pict on facebook of Mary Miles Minter: / We went with something celtic on this. A celtic goddess. Very happy with this one as well. 9×12
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4×6 inch OSWOA (original small works of art) done with graphite pencil on drafting film. The reference photo for this artwork was taken my Ainhoa Pcb http://www.flickr.com/photos/ainhoap/355192326/ – this is my favourite little model Neska again.
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Oils on canvas board 16” x 20” 2009 / Commission – SOLD The unicorn holds many secrets: / the secrets of jungles and moonlight; / the secrets that lie hidden at the roots of trees / and conceal themselves in coral labyrinths / beneath the ocean. / I look deep into its amber eyes / and see my own reflection, / but altered in line and light, / as if in a dream. / / (Words by Josephine Bradley) Here it is at last, the commissioned work for Trudi. Her two / lovely Irish Connemara ponies Abbey & Shannon painted as / unicorns. This was Trudi’s wish. The work was a combination of two photos taken by Trudi, / who we all know is a very talented photographer. The background is Kirks Reservoir Park in Ballarat, Victoria / & was a perfect setting for these gorgeous girls. Their horns were created from a lovely spiral shell which / was a gift to me recently, it was just perfect for reference. / I’ve been searching for a suitable poem to go with this / painting & finally found one. / Thank you so much Trudi, I hope the painting brings you / much enjoyment & a little bit of magic. I’m honoured. / Louise :-) / / Trudi has also requested me to make this available as prints or cards, where any proceeds will be donated to Project Hope for the welfare of horses, which I am very happy to do so. Featured in THE PONY CLUB GROUP – September 2009 / Featured in PAINTED ANIMALS GROUP – September 2009 / Featured in THE PONY CLUB GROUP Artwork Week – October 2009 / Featured in DIMENSIONS – 6 November 2009
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Pippa
by Karen HullThis is the first in a series of portraits I am putting together combining graphite with a hint of colour. 12×16xcm and the delightful photo of Pippa was kindly provided by Andrea on Pencil Painting Network.
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Kit
by Karen Hull7×8 inch commissioned portrait of a charming little pug called Kit, done with coloured pencils on drafting film
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