Recently I read an article on a blog stating that it was ok to use 1 or 2 images by another artist in a review without their explicit permission. Guess what kiddies, if you use an image, any image that you don’t own the copyright to without permission you are committing copyright infringement. It doesn’t matter what your purpose is. You are required to obtain permission first. If you don’t you could be sued for copyright infringement.
I suppose in many ways I’m very lucky. I’m not dependent upon art sales to make my living. Selling a painting or a print is like getting a bonus. It is extra money that I don’t count on to pay bills.
I’m not alone in the lack of sales. I know other artists who also report sales are slow or non-existent. Discretionary income has been reduced at all levels and art falls under the category of a discretionary purchase for just about everyone.
The question becomes what then does an artist do when no one is buying? The answer, keep painting, sculpting, keep creating art. If you are like me, you really don’t have any choice. When the muse taps my shoulder I can’t ignore her.
I’m lucky in another aspect, working in digital means aside from the electricity used, I don’t have to spend any money on supplies. Unless I need a new pack of nibs for my tablet pen that is.
This one is a little more deliberate in structure. Unleashed had a plan or at least a concept and a image in my mind of what I wanted to do. There are more intentional brush strokes, less of this piece was left to chance.
1 of 1 Edition and prints available on my main website.
In the past I’ve tried to take snapshots of works as they progress but sooner or later I’ll forget at some stage and then the effort is lost. I’m trying it again, but this time I’m going to post them as I do it. Maybe I’ll actually get snapshots of every major step.
Most of my paintings begin as a drawing. In general they aren’t terribly detailed, just the shapes and indications of major light and dark points. Digital drawings unlike my conventional drawings tend to be less detailed. I haven’t exactly mastered a digital drawing techniques, so I tend to use a cross hatch method of shading. As a preliminary for a painting it works well enough. As a stand alone drawing there is room for improvement.
The painting as I envision it will have a limited color palette, black and blue. In my mind confusion if a blue emotion so the entire figure will be done in blue with a black background. The concept I think is great. Hopefully I can pull it off.
It has been a couple of weeks since I’ve had anything to post. Evidence to the contrary, I have been very busy. The last week of May my partner and I were able to travel to Maui, Hawaii. It was a once in a lifetime trip and we made the most of it. Not only did we return with many wonderful memories but we also came back with over a thousand pictures and a couple hours of video.
Upon returning I spent the better part of week just sorting through the photos. I spent several more days resizing and posting them on a subdirectory of my site.
Once I had the pictures posted, them I selected a few to upload to Redbubble for purchase. Those can be seen here.
Once that was all done, then I started tackling the video. I wanted to tell the story of what we saw and did while on Maui. And to make it available to everyone, I wanted to post the whole thing up on YouTube. It took me over a week to put it all together and then I discovered that it was way too long for YouTube. They allow a maximum of 10 minutes for a video. In total, my complete video came in over 40 minutes. So I went back and broke it into segements. In the end there were six segments and I even added a few more still shots to the first one. You can see all of them on my YouTube channel. I hope everyone enjoys. We certain will never forget our week in paradise.
image: detail of Bird On The Beach