Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto Artinfo | The Premier Global Online Destination for Art and Culture How I Turned My Career Around in One Year Making a living as a professional artist isn't easy. I'd been painting and trying to sell my paintings for a number of years, and I was still struggling. And things were getting scary. My husband had been out of steady work for nine years, and I was carrying our household. Frankly, we were on the edge of losing our home and I was going to have to close my studio. I was determined to succeed as an artist, and I realized that just working hard wasn't good enough. Pile Up, Oil on linen, 24x36 in. by Lori Putnam My husband, Mark, and I had a rule that we both had to agree about our expenditures since things were so tight. Majesty, Oil on linen, 16x20 in. by Lori Putnam When I attended the Plein Air Convention, I was eager to get out and paint at sunrise. Goldie Docks, plein air, Oil on linen, 14x18 in. by Lori Putnam Second Place, Plein Air Artists of Colorado National Exhibition After the convention, I approached Eric and told him how much I wanted to succeed. Fast-forward one year.
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A Simple Formula for Pricing Artwork - The Artist's Life - Blogs Pricing artwork is one of the most complex tasks that emerging artists face, especially when they first begin to work with galleries. It's easy to see by reading art business articles and books on art marketing that the opinions of the experts vary. To make it even more complicated, we artists sometimes price with our emotions. Some artists overprice their work in order to impress viewers, hoping to make the artwork look more valuable. When I price with my emotion, I tend to lower my prices because I feel sorry that the collector has to spend so much. Putting emotions aside, let me share a simple formula that many of my professional artist friends have used when first starting to sell their work. When you're first starting out, it's a good idea to make your work as affordable as you can while being able to cover your costs and make a small profit. Here's the formula that I recommend: First, multiply the painting's width by its length to arrive at the total size, in square inches. --Lori
HDRSpotting.com - Gallery of HDR Photography Shortlist 2012 - Future Generation Art Prize From 13 January till 12 April 2014 PinchukArtCentre to present the Exhibition of 21 Shortlisted Artists for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 watch the photo gallery of the works and video profiles of the artists → Jonathas de Andrade, Brazil, the Special Prize winner Jonathas de Andrade was born in 1982 in Maceió and lives and works in Recife, Brazil. Jonathas de Andrade researches decaying systems and waning ideologies, reconstructing them through various means of documentation and archiving. For the PinchukArtCentre de Andrade has created a new work based in his exploration of tropical modernism. Meris Angioletti, Italy Meris Angioletti was born in 1977 in Bergamo, Italy. At the heart of Meris Angioletti’s artistic practice stands what she calls the “circumstantial paradigm”, an idea from which she developed a research system to aid her examination of trace evidence. Marwa Arsanios, Lebanon, the Special Prize winner Marwa Arsanios was born in 1978 in the USA. Abigail DeVille, USA
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