TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Conversations about Pricing
This blog post is not titled “How to Price Your Art.” There are many articles of that kind on the internet, but they attempt to be prescriptive, yet applicable to all kinds of artists. They fail to explore the nuances relevant to already-working artists, instead catering to artists making pricing decisions for the first time. [caption id="attachment_78609" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo at IX Arts by Jacob Walker[/caption] IX Arts 2024 was last week, and it is a…
YESTERDAY’S POST
less is more
September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago, I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…
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