Art Fanatics Thread of Visual Dominance

[sidis 9819]

53 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

tldr: no and no.

If you're bored and still hanging around: Queen Bee is living life, and now that I don't have to interact with her brain worms, we get along fine. I have very little contact with that club other than bumping into friends at shows, and one woman I convinced to study Scottish Gaelic, because that is what one does.

Witch and/or a dozen other nice friendly art show women: my wife says she likes it when other women flirt with me, with the unstated message that if I fool around, I will be living in a muddy ditch eating baloney sandwiches. The first time I met her, she told me how she destroyed her cheating first husband using private detectives, the best divorce lawyers (one that she hired, and a lot more that she "consulted" so they couldn't work for him,) and of course the divorce papers that she delivered to him after midnight at his girlfriend's apartment. So no.

presumably the right call for you and your well-being and happiness...likely the wrong call for your art and the rest of us.

[RDCanecutter 26376]

14 minutes ago, sidis said:

presumably the right call for you and your well-being and happiness...likely the wrong call for your art and the rest of us.

Well, if you put it that way, I'll put on my little ho skirt and go walk the strip.

[Mdhorn 5945]

Been working on this painting the last few nights, and for awhile now. Part of a series that I’ll pitch for a show. One of nine, each almost six feet by six feet. Some people like fancy cars, and I like painting, and a dc studio in an old factory. Not my day job, or the class I teach in the evenings, but I get to this in my time, late night, after the wife goes to sleep. I’ve done a lot of writing for the work, but want to hear comments. The floor isn’t finished. All nine paintings are almost all together 50 feet with no spacing between. 

Edited October 21 by Mdhorn

[RDCanecutter 26376]

13 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

Been working on this painting the last few nights, and for awhile now. Part of a series that I’ll pitch for a show. One of nine, each almost six feet by six feet. Some people like fancy cars, and I like painting, and a dc studio in an old factory. Not my day job, or the class I teach in the evenings, but I get to this in my time, late night, after the wife goes to sleep. I’ve done a lot of writing for the work, but want to hear comments. The floor isn’t finished. All nine paintings are almost all together 50 feet with no spacing between. 

Damn, boss, that's like Real Art Stuff. Get after it! Post more!

[Mdhorn 5945]

12 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Damn, boss, that's like Real Art Stuff. Get after it! Post more!

Thanks RDC, it's been a journey.  I paint a lot of simpler stuff in between because these are a lot to do-andI get the occasional portrait commission or painting sale. But this whole thing is a story called Floodland or something I'm working on--the scale kind of emulates a modern flood path when all put together. A lot of this stuff is from river cleanups and just discarded by the side of the road--like cultural refuse or artifact discards of modern civilization.  We live in a flood zone so the marks on the wall, blah, blah.  I can send you the text.  But these are basically all also items of a broken escape as well--as in we're stuck in our own mess.  I probably could have also put this in the I'm digging a hole tab.  

[Mdhorn 5945]

One big influence: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/throne-third-heaven-nations-millennium-general-assembly-9897

[RDCanecutter 26376]

In the Goblin World where I dwell, I have been tweaking the booth displays for more oomph.

Back during the pandemic, I did mountains of small paintings that I could mail for $5. I had a lot of them left when face-to-face shows started back up, and even though they were cheap (40 bucks,) they really boosted my show sales. I was outselling my peers.

But then they ran out, and they weren't really an efficient use of time-- I could knock out larger, more profitable paintings in almost the same amount of time. Those sell too, but more slowly. So, short-term, I fell behind my friends, who started kicking my ass in the 20-40 dollar slot.

So a couple months ago, I decided to just copy what they were doing-- order a shit-load of 8 x 10" prints and offer them at $30/ea. I used digital images of long-ago-sold paintings. Ordering them takes no time, the only work is cutting mat board to go behind them inside plastic sleeves. Maybe now I can finish more big paintings while occasionally slapping out scads of quick $10 drawings to cover the low end.

The past two shows where I sold these prints have been the best two of the year, with the prints doing the work. They cost me about $5.50 each when I order them in quantity, and folks pay 30 without blinking. (If anybody here is interested, they're available on my Redbubble listed earlier for maybe 10 bucks for a one-off. But selling eggs on Malta and all that.)

Now maybe one day I'll get a van that can hold wire screens for displaying more paintings.

[HoustonHorn 1062]

Been working on this painting the last few nights, and for awhile now. Part of a series that I’ll pitch for a show. One of nine, each almost six feet by six feet. Some people like fancy cars, and I like painting, and a dc studio in an old factory. Not my day job, or the class I teach in the evenings, but I get to this in my time, late night, after the wife goes to sleep. I’ve done a lot of writing for the work, but want to hear comments. The floor isn’t finished. All nine paintings are almost all together 50 feet with no spacing between. 

That's going to be an incredible piece! Wow