Saturday, October 27, 2007
Just an Update...
It's Halloween and I finally have all my paintings back. I've sold a few and traded a few for other artists works. I've got a couple of new smaller paintings that I haven't photographed yet. They're boat paintings. I've been working at a corporate graphic designer job and will probably continue to do so.
The fair business has been even spottier than last year according to my contacts.
I've been thinking a lot about reproductions lately. They have been a necessary crutch in the past and I think they have a negative effect both on the perception on the value of the original and on the reproduction. The reproductions that I make today are of a better quality than anything I could have made even just a few years ago. But that goes the same for anybody who has access to good giclee output. Giclee, high end Ink-jet ink and printers, used to be hard to come by. Today they're cheap and commonplace adding to the myth that the giclee prints are cheap and of poor quality. The truth is that paper, inks and printer quality are exception. The effect of these quality prints is that somehow they diminish the value of the original.
More on this latter.
The fair business has been even spottier than last year according to my contacts.
I've been thinking a lot about reproductions lately. They have been a necessary crutch in the past and I think they have a negative effect both on the perception on the value of the original and on the reproduction. The reproductions that I make today are of a better quality than anything I could have made even just a few years ago. But that goes the same for anybody who has access to good giclee output. Giclee, high end Ink-jet ink and printers, used to be hard to come by. Today they're cheap and commonplace adding to the myth that the giclee prints are cheap and of poor quality. The truth is that paper, inks and printer quality are exception. The effect of these quality prints is that somehow they diminish the value of the original.
