So I wanted to make a thread that we could chat about some traditional art and if people have questions about materials/techniques/studies etc.

Also feel free to post some of your art here or some helpful tutorials!

You can also post your work in the GD Sketchbook thread too: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=45108511&f=105

All questions are welcomed! All traditional art media welcomed!

This post was edited by UncleMuscles on Jun 8 2011 12:43pm

Ill start off with a question if anyone wants to comment on it

When someone is doing a master study painting, is it " legal " to sell this study?

i like this thread


and i think it is completely legal to sell a master study, provided u give credit and explain that it is just a study

aight was curious, there were some master studys for sale up at the UNI where i go to school... and just kinda wondered if studied art from an actual painting is considered copyright etc etc

does anyone know how to price paintings or to judge how to? lmk!

the coffee shop were i work at is going to let me sell some of my oil/acrylic paintings! ill prob put them up next week, after a few more dry

but i have no clue what to price any of them at

ill take pics and put them up soon so i can have a photocopy before i sell them

Poke around how much they think they it's worth (or they paid before), and charge them ten times as much. Later on tell them it's only cause you are painting for fame and once you get famous those will be worth a FORTUNE.



I'll give a horrible advice and recommend you to ask them how much they are worth. Imo if their offer is too low, tell them you used more $ on paint and materials and charge a bit extra for your work. It all depends how happy they will be with your paintings and how much of cheap bastards they are.

i think it would be better if i had a set non negotiable price... :S

the canvas that i used ranges from 5$ - 15 $.... each and acrylic paint = practically nothing and the oil paints im using are pretty cheap....

but iv read around and it says to never start your first paintings out cheap, because that will devalue your work.... and from there on will be cheap and discourage you... but also dont price to high incase nothing sells and really discourages you....

i was thinking along the lines of 35-45 $ a piece.... that way its not too much but im still making enough green to buy more materials

Yeah thats why i said it was a horrible advice -.-
i was thinking more in the lines from 50-100$ but okay

that sounds appropriate. I had a friend in the US who was quite good at painting and did a lot of abstract stuff and sold it, she had a formula for deciding the cost its quite a good idea imo

hers was something like constant base price + (hours x hourly charge) and then she added 10-30 percent depending on how much she liked the outcome!

This post was edited by mamllee on Jun 8 2011 03:50pm

so maybe i should do 50$ + and see how it goes, i can always change price eh



oh this helps! tyty