ARTISTS AND HIGH GALLERY COST

Galleries typically take a 50% commission on the sale of artwork, photos, mono types, etc.,
and anywhere from 33.3% to 40%.   Artists who feels that they are "starving" it's difficult to imagine how it could possibly make sense to "give away" half of your sale price.

       The cost of classes, paint and time that goes into creating a single painting is not considered by most buyers. 
    I can paint a painting three times before I get it right and that's the way it is for all artists. This is the trial and error process to creating what we feel acceptable in a painting, and this is what the public does not see what happens in the studio. The cost of paint, canvas, brush, classes, schooling, mediums and the time is never considered into creating art.

       Most artist study and read more then they paint and we have to paint everyday to maintain and master our medium.  If and artist paints several mediums, its more hours in the studio.
      As artists, are perfectionist and our name is on that painting and a must to get it right if its going to be in a gallery and if not, the gallery will not accept our work. 

       The Value of any piece of art is comprised to two components
     One part is the value of the art is created in the studio and creativity to produce, the second part is the value and effort with creativity that goes into marketing and promoting the art. 
           Getting into galleries takes preparation and work and maintaining the gallery relationship. There are also cost involved in getting  art into the gallery, this is also taken into account when calculating the visibility of selling through galleries. 
  
      A high end gallery will take more money as they will market good artists and the artist must be qualified to display in that gallery to reassure demand for their work in sales.  When the gallery closes and goes under, that is another issue for artist getting their artwork returned or receiving payment from the sale of a painting.  It's a lot more legal cost to getting your money or artwork back.

    As artists, we need to market, do our own bookwork, commissions, paint, work galleries, blog, sell in galleries, we sell on line, keep up with new works, more schooling and up to date on mediums and their use,  image our work for online galleries.  and the list goes on... We also teach art classes to help pay for supplies when sales are slow.

 ........An artist life is always busy......

  

ARTISTS HISTORY WITH PAINTING AT 75 AND BEYOND

Michelangelo 1475-1564

“The urge to create beauty, and a drive that cannot be laid to rest"

From as early as the Renaissance, artists such as Michelangelo, Titian and Donatello worked well into their eighties.   In the 19th and 20th-century artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Norman Rockwell continued this Model. 

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright worked until he was 92, and the projects he’s most famous for (Falling water, The Guggenheim Museum, Johnson Wax Headquarters) were all created after the age of 67.

Painter and potter Georgia O’Keeffe worked in the age of 99, and illustrator Al Hirschfeld created his drawings to the end of his life when he was months from turning 100 years old.

       I have no intentions of retiring from my job as a painter as that is my passion. I started at the age of 18 years old.  My teacher Tony Nelson continues to teach private art classes to this day at the age of 94 and she has no plans to quit anytime soon.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

Clearly, artists are not immune to the effects of aging. Their work doesn’t experience the natural decline we see in the sports and music curves. Creative people are committed to their artistic growth, and that growth, if it lasts, brings new thoughts, new ideas and new meanings of expression.

The difference in our comparisons is that artists do not, for the most part, rely on their physical bodies to communicate Art.

..........AN ARTIST IS NOT JUST SOME PERSON WHO MESSES WITH PAINT AND BRUSHES; AN ARTIST IS SOMEBODY WHO DOES EMOTIONAL WORK…........  Seth Godin

Georgia O'Keeff  1887-1986

Artists who remain fully engaged with their art reach higher and higher toward, yet, unrealized possibilities.

The only way to continually grow as creators we need to stay on track.  If an artist at any point settles on his laurels or falls into his or her comfort zone, then we see their talent/creativity curve flatten out.  We never really know exactly how far we can go with our art, and that’s what makes the trip exciting, prodding us to stay on course.  

 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright worked until he was 92, and the projects he’s most famous for (Falling water, The Guggenheim Museum, Johnson Wax Headquarters) were all created after the age of 67.

THE CREATION OF ADAM   (Michelangelo)

Titian 1490-1576

SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE  (Titian) painted 1514

Claud Monet 1840-1926

CLIFF WALK AT POURVILLE ( Monet)

  (Georgia  O'Keeffe)

SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM ( Frank Lloyd Wright)

FALLINGWATER IN FAYETTE CO PENNSYLIVANIA ( Frank Lloyd Wright)

NORMAN ROCKWELL 1894-1978

PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973