ART GOES to Galleries to DIE! JOIN me on the Road NOW!

I guess the art wasn't just flyin off the shelves at that gallery I mentioned either. It's a daily grind in there. It just sits there like a museum. Her ex has a gallery in laguna beach. I don't know how these people stay alive. Talk about starving artists, these gallery owners must be the glitziest bunch of starvers this world has ever known!

 

Very Good. I'm meeting a girl I met at a Thanksgiving Party who has been here 19 years & is a caricature artist who does well here. Actually my present girlfriend met her & invited her to the party. I've fallen in with a bunch of activist fundraisers & they had oodles of great French wine as the woman of the house is French. Her husband is chock full of quotes. I should be able to share some stuff with you all.

I hit the beach this past Sunday & did 3 paintings but nobody bought. This is a touch nut but many, many showed interest.

I stay away from the paid venue that happens nearby so as not to piss the people off, but the visitors relate me to part of that show, which I cannot help. I got a lot of promises for next weekend. So that's a point, to show up at the same time & same place, because sometimes they just are jogging or paragliding & don't have the pocket money.

All I can say is that it's a big world & there is a huge market out there. People don't buy because they haven't been approached. I'm learning a lot about asking for money even though I have to keep it low key. I also have a potential place to stay & work out of, but the West Coast is super-expensive, so be ready to camp out for several months

 

-- I'm just a Caveman, is all I can say. I can't relate to the materialists too well, but poveryt sucks equally, so I am living & breathing in two atmospheres. But, I'm making it. This portrait artist can give me some pointers & at least I'll have somebody to hang with. She has a lot of connections.

 

Rve On!

 

you are such an inspiration!

 

hey sky canvas, jsut thought id share with you a little adventure im going on.
im off to egypt next week and am going to paint on the top of mount sinai.
during my stay in egypt i will be creating a sketchbook making a record of my journey!
i havnt done a journey book in year.....it was sometihng i loved doing as a kid and thought id re live it in my work!

 

I actually dont mind the art system. To me its ok when it would go to a gallery after the work is done. Or a exhibit I dont mind. Some see what I do, other dont, bad luck, but I can continu my job and thats most important to me.

 

Yeah, you go girl!

 

Well, one thing is --they try to get me to join their venue here. But it costs a bunch of money. I pointed out to them that those people must have other money coming in, since they only sell one day out of the week & I need to paint & sell every day to survive. I just don't get sales in galleries. I think most of them are tax shelters or a cover for whatever else those people are really making money at.

 

i jsut came back from my trip a few days ago!
it was the most amazing experience ever!

 

SkyCanvas I have to admit that I hate those commercial gallery's a lot, to join in their gallery they ask about 300/500$ and when you sell something they also want up to 40%, thats not a deal to me. So if I normally ask around 1000$ for a big scale painting I suddely need to ask 2000 because they need 1000 for themselfes, it would be cheaper to rent a gallery myself in that case. So from that point of view I can understand you, and your also closer to other people because your on the road, but what I ment is that Im more a one-place person, to work daily in my studio and from there on bring my work to the world so to say.

 

Yeah, I worked studio for most of my life. I only got into this a couple of years ago on the urging of a fellow artist from my teenage days.

I found that people tend to pay more attention to what they see being done live. As a photographer's son & former computer illustration teacher I tend to be a bit more critical of stuff that I can see an artist hasn't covered his tracks. I've hear that from other artists, too, in the illustration field.

I think the stuff I see in galleries that has almost too much photo-realism is just copied from a photo & has very little real artistic worth for me. Artist's Magazine is loaded with that stuff & adult art classes churn it out.

Well, if those people need to take baby steps before they walk or run, it's OK. But I guess I was more fortunate in that my dad taught me & I sort of hit the ground running.

You're right about galleries. Some in Dallas fort worth take 60%!!!

 

Thats a thing I also dont really understand skycanvas. They are talking about techniques, they tell that modern art is hard to understand and that painting a perfect picture is somekind of a miracle.
I dont get this, its almost 100 years ago that Picasso invented cubism, before that we had VanGogh, the impressions, people moving up to the country to paint light. Thats not modern art anymore, thats our history to learn from I do believe.

 

Yeah, true. I hate to rain on anyone's parade but those Artist's Magazines are a big bore if you are an artist. They hate to admit most things are happy accidents, having learned the techniques years ago. Every once in a whle I run contrary to the parameters, like people pointing out of a painting or something, but who cares? That's just stuff art critics love to pick at.

"Them that can DO, them that can't CRITICIZE!" -An Incredible artist I know told me this

 

Now that I've proved living on the road off my art can be done - Is there a Chick out there who doesn't want to change me & would like to team up? I see chicks out there & I see artist chicks, but I never see them doing both.

Sales goes a little better with two people & a girl is a plus