The Phoenix Museum recently completed an expansion which has allowed it to offer its visitors the opportunity to see more great works of art from all over the world. Starting this Sunday 1/28 until the 5/6 there is “Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Treasures from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam”.
I’ve never visited the Rijksmuseum, so I am very pleased to have the opportunity to see these paintings, here in my backyard.
I like the buzz from the Independent film festivals. The Golden Globe, The Film Critics Awards and the Oscars feel like last years stuff, and it is. These Indie films, most times, provide dialog, mystery, intrigue and acting, things that some of the big movies try to avoid. Here is a fellow bloggers Pre-view of Sundance, got my attention. Also check out NYINDIESEEN
This past Tuesday I attended a lecture and discussion panel with three gallery owners who talked how they got into the business, what they see their role and relationship to the artist is etc. Someone in the audience brought up Internet sales and did they work with artist who also sold their work on line.
If you are currently doing both, selling via your website and through a gallery, what are the agreements that you have in place with the gallery? Do you sell certain types of work on-line but not through the gallery?
This is Vincent (with both ears) modeling his Christmas Outfit.
For some of us, resolving a painting is more difficult then it should be. Once started, I am not able to see what I am doing with a clean mind. There are elements that I fall in love with a try to work around them, but never seem to get the entire painting to work. Recently I discovered that a painting that was testing my identity as an artist (another way saying, gave me great doubts about my ability) only needed for my scrape out the one thing that I thought was working for me, in order for the the rest of the painting to come alive.
Occasionally or almost always, the paintings become overworked. Knowing when to stop is a good thing. I have tried all of the little tricks you can use to play with your mind, like hiding the painting in a closet for a week, the black mirror, turning it upside down etc. Anybody have any other ideas?
