I've always wanted to be able to paint so over the last year I've taken a couple of oil painting courses. It seems now that I can paint well enough that people are asking about buying my work and one person wants to try to get me into galleries he knows. Wow!
That's where I get stuck. How on earth do I come up with a price? Do I ask them to make me an offer? Are there resources for this kind of thing? Has anyone on here done this? What did you charge?
posted by merocet
on May 16, 2013 -
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My DrawSomething addiction has coaxed out of me a desire to illustrate without getting bogged down by a writing process. My recent draws are cartoonish, bright and friendly, and other players keep asking if I'm an artist. Where can I find cartoon or childrens book writers in need of artwork that might tolerate my lack of portfolio and professional experience?
posted by jayCampbell
on Apr 30, 2013 -
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I'm in Berlin on Saturday, and I'd like to look at, and maybe buy some art. Where should I go?
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posted by devnull
on Apr 25, 2013 -
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How I can I get a 4x4 ft. painting from Brooklyn to the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in the cheapest way possible?
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posted by Ollie
on Mar 15, 2013 -
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I was linked a book some time ago via twitter, but that account is now gone and with it went the link.
Things I remember:
Pretty sure it was called "Daylight" (maybe not that, but definitely a time word. daytime? morning?)
Content: the text was just the entirety of a single day's New York Times transcribed
The link went to the publisher, I recall seeing it on Amazon also.
I believe published in the early 90s. 93ish? But still purchasable
Currently going crazy trying to find it with such not-so-limiting search terms. My browser history doesn't go back far enough to find it there. Hoping someone familiar with it happens upon this, I guess.
posted by arsey
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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Just picked up some cool paper cuts. And was wondering if metafilter can help me translate them. I believe they are Chinese but honestly I am not sure. Two images are below:
Paper Cut One
Paper Cut Two
Let me know if you have any trouble with the images. And thanks again Metafilter!
posted by WickedPissah
on Mar 4, 2013 -
6 answers
I want to change my Barbie doll's skin tone and paint her face to give her different eyes. How?
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posted by discopolo
on Feb 14, 2013 -
8 answers
Wondering if anyone else who uses the Wacom Intuos5 drawing tablet knows how to deal with this problem. My Intuos3, which I loved, had a big dead space in the middle of the drawing pad because I used a cleaner on it that messed it up. Two new versions had been released since I bought it, so I figured it was time to get the latest and greatest.
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posted by cartoonella
on Feb 2, 2013 -
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The ice melts, releasing the pebbles onto the sculpture.
YOUTUBE
Anyone know more about this genre of what I call sonic sculpture?
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posted by surplus
on Jan 29, 2013 -
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I currently have a high paying desk job, but want to live free and make art. Should I save my money or aggressively pay down my student loans?
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posted by Miss T.Horn
on Jan 23, 2013 -
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I'm an established photographer with a large body of work in travel and performance/event, with a niche in circus arts. I've exhibited in the past, and I'm looking for resources on funding/grants to put on an exhibition in either New York or London.
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posted by felspar
on Jan 8, 2013 -
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Can I print an image at Kinko's that has the copyright symbol, but also says "free for personal use"?
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posted by smirkyfodder
on Dec 22, 2012 -
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I bought a print of a painting I love in the only format available: A full bleed art show poster on glossy 11"x17" bond. The painting reproduction is approximately the top half of the poster, say 10"x8". I can clearly see the grain of the canvas in the print, and it is entirely possible that the original painting is not much larger than the reprint. So my question is, is it feasible to have this print blown up to twice or thrice it's size without sacrificing quality?
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posted by carsonb
on Dec 10, 2012 -
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I might want to do some freelance illustration, but is it possible to do so without any type of degree?
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posted by grifninetoo
on Nov 29, 2012 -
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Digital artists: What is this cool, grainy Photoshop texture used in webcomics and how do I make it too?
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posted by iadacanavon
on Nov 6, 2012 -
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Seeking your ideas for free or inexpensive crafts for adults that can be completed within 2-3 hours with very little instruction required. Striving for a fun process and a pleasing end product. No worthless, ugly or junky, please.
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on Oct 24, 2012 -
34 answers
I need a fitting caption for wierd artwork on a birthday card I'm sending.
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posted by Mila
on Oct 12, 2012 -
5 answers
What is a good resource for understanding art theory - book recommendations, websites, things of that nature. I keep finding myself realizing that there's uses of language in art that doesn't match up with what I think it should be.
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posted by mephron
on Oct 11, 2012 -
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Maybe you know this art print? Years ago I lost a piece of art that I loved but didn't know anything about. It was a sketch of a dry-docked small (single-person? in the perspective it looked to be about a 12-foot craft) sailboat, sail down, in a field of waving shore grass, looking out towards the sea and the back of the boat. The surf was far away, maybe 100 yards or so, and the boat was positioned in the lower right-hand quadrant of the piece though not in the corner. The original medium was was pencil or charcoal on paper. When I see it I think "New England coast" and "loneliness". It was a yellowish-greenish-sepia tone, or perhaps that was just the paper it was litho'd on. I recall it was an official print numbered in pencil on the matting and framed in a low-profile chrome frame. Do you know the work? Can you speculate on the name of the artist? I'd really like to be able to attempt to get another copy.
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posted by carsonb
on Oct 9, 2012 -
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On a deadline: Help me find the name of an amazing, bizarre, crude, disgusting artist whose childish paintings of people in extreme situations surrounded by thought/speech balloons/bubbles I saw in a Lower East Side gallery around 2010-2011.
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posted by StopMakingSense
on Oct 8, 2012 -
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SFFilter! I have a friend who has a photography assignment due on Monday -- six photos, with the theme of portals/entrances. They need to take photos of six distinctive entranceways/ doorways/ portals/ passages in San Francisco. Places that open up to amazing, distinctive sights and vistas... possibly even some outdoor locations, garden gates, etc. that are semi-enclosed, and have interesting subjects behind them. They'd especially appreciate Art Deco subjects and locations within walking distance of the downtown.
Can the MeFi hivemind recommend some great portals to shoot, with a sense of mystery, wonder, and excitement on what lies beyond?
posted by markkraft
on Oct 3, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm a huge fan of science fiction book cover art (especially the 50s through the 80s) and I like to use ideas from them to make posters for my band.
If you need examples:
this should explain what I'm looking for.
I'm wondering if there are existing resources for science fiction cover art or general science fiction art that mirrors this sort of style and substance? I especially need resources that are fair use, free to modify etc. etc.
We use these posters to advertise our shows at places which usually have a cover charge -- so I will need content that I can modify to use "commercially".
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posted by mysticreferee
on Oct 2, 2012 -
4 answers
What was produced at the factory at the beginning of Michelangelo Antonioni's
Red Desert?
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posted by Egg Shen
on Sep 26, 2012 -
2 answers
What kind of art project(s) could I create with old paperback edition of Muldoon's Handling a Criminal Case in New York (that I'm willing to take apart)?
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posted by 168
on Sep 14, 2012 -
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Honeymooning in Paris, and trying to flesh out our plans (not to mention a wedding registry) with stuff other than restaurants & museums. Ideas?
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posted by chicobangs
on Sep 10, 2012 -
25 answers
It's time to play your favorite
(maybe) Ask Metafilter game: recommend music for a specific purpose! Bonus difficulty: the specificity is
really specific!
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posted by lazaruslong
on Sep 6, 2012 -
23 answers
I'll be in New York City the 21st through the 23rd and would like to take in a much art/cultural stuff as I reasonably can, but it's New York and outside of the big four (MOMA, the Met, AMNH and the Guggenhiem), I'm not really sure where to start.
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posted by Meeks Ormand
on Sep 5, 2012 -
23 answers
Help me find a photograph from the seventies or eighties of a space-suit-clad person climbing a martian mountain.
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posted by Omon Ra
on Aug 19, 2012 -
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Students of art, lovers of philosophy, can you recommend a book I can buy as a gift for a friend?
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posted by Chichibio
on Jul 25, 2012 -
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Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA: what was the name of the artist who had a show of skeletons salvaged from owl pellets arranged into little dioramas? Circa 1995 or so.
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posted by blnkfrnk
on Jul 24, 2012 -
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Ten or twelve years ago I saw a series of paintings I really liked at the
Denver Art Museum. The paintings featured idyllic farm-like scenery under bright blue skies with white clouds. Distinctly the sky made up 80% of the image, so the ground and barns, etc. appeared to be quite small and the sky seemed huge. There were at least 3-5 of paintings in this series, and the canvases were very large. Can anyone identify the paintings or artist?
posted by 2bucksplus
on Jul 18, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm trying to identify an oil painting of two young girls that was (still is?) in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection.
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posted by quiet coyote
on Jun 30, 2012 -
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Name that art installation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the Fall of 2007!
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posted by pknodle
on Jun 28, 2012 -
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I'd like to learn more about visual composition, especially for photography and painting. Are there any books or websites you would recommend as a primer to the subject?
posted by lirael2008
on Jun 18, 2012 -
14 answers
