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[OrangeCrush]

Well, I have some great news. That painting I finished up that I posted on the last page wound up selling in less than 3 days once my art rep had pictures of the painting in hand to send to potential buyers and other reps. Here is the painting in case people missed it. Its the largest painting I have made to date as its 6' x 4'. 

 

 

And that is one of the reasons why having a quality art rep is so vital, especially if you want to sell limited edition prints or original artwork. Sure, you can try and sell the prints on places like eBay, or other sites dedicated to selling artwork, but so much stuff gets posted these days that it very likely a lot of visitors will never even see your work. You can start your own website, but it takes a lot of time to get word around that that the site even exists. Even tho its going to cost you some money, having a quality art rep is absolutely mandatory IMO as they know a LOT about the business and the know a LOT of the people in the art collecting community, including other reps and many of the big buyers, especially in your neck of the woods. Of course, you have to pay your rep a commission, but in my experience over the last 15 years, its absolutely worth every last penny. Everyone needs to make a living including art reps.

Anyways, it wound up selling for $5500 so its now the 2nd most valuable piece of art I have sold to date. The #1 spot is still held by a 5 print portfolio I made of the World Trade Center that I put together just a few months after the towers came down. I made 5 portfolio's in total and each portfolio had 5 - 18x24 matted prints. I always planned on keeping one portfolio for myself so I really only had 4 portfolios I was putting up for sale. I was initially going to price them at $20,000, but my art rep convinced me to raise the price to $30,000 or basically $6,000 per print given everything that had happened  Amazingly, it only took 3 months to sell all 4 portfolio's. I have to admit, part of me felt like I was taking advantage of that whole tragedy by trying to sell portfolio's of the towers so shortly after that event took place but as an artist, I was really motivated by those events to produce those prints and not for the sake of money. I have always been a HUGE fan of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the towers. Basically, there were a lot of high profile people, including architects, that really wanted to remember those building in all thier glory and as such, there were quite a few photographers who profited greatly from the pictures they had of the WTC in the weeks, months, and years following that collapse of the towers. 

Anyways, I am a very happy man today. Gonna hit up Sideshow and pre order a couple new statues, hit up Amazon and buy some art books I have had my eye on, and will likely hit up some online comic shops and make a few purchases. 

[alexgross.com]

On 3/28/2018 at 2:02 PM, OrangeCrush said:

Well, I have some great news. That painting I finished up that I posted on the last page wound up selling in less than 3 days once my art rep had pictures of the painting in hand to send to potential buyers and other reps. Here is the painting in case people missed it. Its the largest painting I have made to date as its 6' x 4'. 

 

 

And that is one of the reasons why having a quality art rep is so vital, especially if you want to sell limited edition prints or original artwork. Sure, you can try and sell the prints on places like eBay, or other sites dedicated to selling artwork, but so much stuff gets posted these days that it very likely a lot of visitors will never even see your work. You can start your own website, but it takes a lot of time to get word around that that the site even exists. Even tho its going to cost you some money, having a quality art rep is absolutely mandatory IMO as they know a LOT about the business and the know a LOT of the people in the art collecting community, including other reps and many of the big buyers, especially in your neck of the woods. Of course, you have to pay your rep a commission, but in my experience over the last 15 years, its absolutely worth every last penny. Everyone needs to make a living including art reps.

Anyways, it wound up selling for $5500 so its now the 2nd most valuable piece of art I have sold to date. The #1 spot is still held by a 5 print portfolio I made of the World Trade Center that I put together just a few months after the towers came down. I made 5 portfolio's in total and each portfolio had 5 - 18x24 matted prints. I always planned on keeping one portfolio for myself so I really only had 4 portfolios I was putting up for sale. I was initially going to price them at $20,000, but my art rep convinced me to raise the price to $30,000 or basically $6,000 per print given everything that had happened  Amazingly, it only took 3 months to sell all 4 portfolio's. I have to admit, part of me felt like I was taking advantage of that whole tragedy by trying to sell portfolio's of the towers so shortly after that event took place but as an artist, I was really motivated by those events to produce those prints and not for the sake of money. I have always been a HUGE fan of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the towers. Basically, there were a lot of high profile people, including architects, that really wanted to remember those building in all thier glory and as such, there were quite a few photographers who profited greatly from the pictures they had of the WTC in the weeks, months, and years following that collapse of the towers. 

Anyways, I am a very happy man today. Gonna hit up Sideshow and pre order a couple new statues, hit up Amazon and buy some art books I have had my eye on, and will likely hit up some online comic shops and make a few purchases. 

congratulations! theres no better thrill than selling an expensive painting. except perhaps buying the comics you want with the money you got!  who's your art rep? 

[alexgross.com]

hope i didn't post this one before! its called "Bad Girls," before and after, and it's acrylic and oil on an antique photograph. this one is a little larger, the photo is 6.5 x 8.5 inches. you all know who the ladies in the painted version are. mixing dc and marvel universe imagery always feels a little crazy to me, even at this advanced age. 

[alexgross.com]

"Two-Face," before and after. acrylic and oil on antique cabinet card photograph, 6.5 x 4.5 inches. 

[OrangeCrush]

17 hours ago, www.alexgross.com said:

congratulations! theres no better thrill than selling an expensive painting. except perhaps buying the comics you want with the money you got!  who's your art rep? 

Much appreciated! I was with Wall Productions for a number of years, but recently switched over to Elizabeth Poje´ + Associates. I have a really good friend who I went to art school with who wound up getting a job with Elizabeth Poje so it just seemed like the right thing to do. 

[DanPiercy]

[B2D327]

Roughed out an idea I had called "the wounded ronin"....

Inspiration hasn't been easy to come by lately but I felt a need to draw

[oakman29]

On 3/28/2018 at 2:02 PM, OrangeCrush said:

Well, I have some great news. That painting I finished up that I posted on the last page wound up selling in less than 3 days once my art rep had pictures of the painting in hand to send to potential buyers and other reps. Here is the painting in case people missed it. Its the largest painting I have made to date as its 6' x 4'. 

 

 

And that is one of the reasons why having a quality art rep is so vital, especially if you want to sell limited edition prints or original artwork. Sure, you can try and sell the prints on places like eBay, or other sites dedicated to selling artwork, but so much stuff gets posted these days that it very likely a lot of visitors will never even see your work. You can start your own website, but it takes a lot of time to get word around that that the site even exists. Even tho its going to cost you some money, having a quality art rep is absolutely mandatory IMO as they know a LOT about the business and the know a LOT of the people in the art collecting community, including other reps and many of the big buyers, especially in your neck of the woods. Of course, you have to pay your rep a commission, but in my experience over the last 15 years, its absolutely worth every last penny. Everyone needs to make a living including art reps.

Anyways, it wound up selling for $5500 so its now the 2nd most valuable piece of art I have sold to date. The #1 spot is still held by a 5 print portfolio I made of the World Trade Center that I put together just a few months after the towers came down. I made 5 portfolio's in total and each portfolio had 5 - 18x24 matted prints. I always planned on keeping one portfolio for myself so I really only had 4 portfolios I was putting up for sale. I was initially going to price them at $20,000, but my art rep convinced me to raise the price to $30,000 or basically $6,000 per print given everything that had happened  Amazingly, it only took 3 months to sell all 4 portfolio's. I have to admit, part of me felt like I was taking advantage of that whole tragedy by trying to sell portfolio's of the towers so shortly after that event took place but as an artist, I was really motivated by those events to produce those prints and not for the sake of money. I have always been a HUGE fan of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the towers. Basically, there were a lot of high profile people, including architects, that really wanted to remember those building in all thier glory and as such, there were quite a few photographers who profited greatly from the pictures they had of the WTC in the weeks, months, and years following that collapse of the towers. 

Anyways, I am a very happy man today. Gonna hit up Sideshow and pre order a couple new statues, hit up Amazon and buy some art books I have had my eye on, and will likely hit up some online comic shops and make a few purchases. 

Did you paint this piece? 

I am a bit of an artist myself,  I really have only ventured into charcoal. 

This piece talks to me. I interpret it as all the color\life around the world, and mom is struggling to keep it together embracing her child ,alone , in spite  of her pain.

Edited April 15, 2018 by oakman29

[Get Marwood & I]

On 28/03/2018 at 2:48 AM, DanPiercy said:

It's clobbering time!

On 28/03/2018 at 4:15 AM, bronze_rules said:

recreation...after Jim Starlin and Frank Giacoia

11X17 india ink

Twice!

[Get Marwood & I]

On 13/04/2018 at 1:39 PM, DanPiercy said:

It's clobbering time!

[Get Marwood & I]

5 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Did you paint this piece? 

I am a bit of an artist myself,  I really have only ventured into charcoal. 

This piece talks to me. I interpret it as all the color\life around the world, and mom is struggling to keep it together embracing her child ,alone , in spite  of her pain.

Exterminators have feelings too 

[oakman29]

2 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Exterminators have feelings too 

You know it baby!

[OrangeCrush]

On 4/15/2018 at 8:31 AM, oakman29 said:

Did you paint this piece? 

I am a bit of an artist myself,  I really have only ventured into charcoal. 

This piece talks to me. I interpret it as all the color\life around the world, and mom is struggling to keep it together embracing her child ,alone , in spite  of her pain.

Yeah, I did half of it then kind of got pulled away and it sat there for awhile unfinished. I finally broke down a couple months back and finished it up. I don't do as much painting as I would like as I tend to spend most of my art time on photography and wire tree's. Charcoal is one of my favorite mediums and one of the most under appreciated IMO. Not many artists that I follow do a lot of charcoal work. I would love to see some of your work if you get a chance to post it up. 

And I appreciate the compliment on the piece. Its always nice when people appreciate your artwork. 

Edited April 17, 2018 by OrangeCrush

[OrangeCrush]

Just did some more quick and dirty copy work today to post up on Facebook so I figured I would post up in here as well. 

 

The Duomo, Florence Italy.

 

Downtown Detroit, MI.

 

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI.

 

I don't do portrait or fashion type photography very often, but every once in awhile I get inspired to give it a try. 

[Senormac]

A local place we went to a couple days ago has brown paper on all the tables and cups of crayons around.  Here's what I came up with.  

 

[Joosh]

A pen and sharpie of Carnage on cardboard, I shipped this out with a comic I sold. 

[oakman29]

2 hours ago, Joosh said:

A pen and sharpie of Carnage on cardboard, I shipped this out with a comic I sold. 

That would be cool to recieve a package like that. 

[kav]

1 hour ago, oakman29 said:

That would be cool to recieve a package like that. 

[oakman29]

6 minutes ago, kav said:

I know you sent me some cool work once.

[kav]

Just now, oakman29 said:

I know you sent me some cool work once.