oldschoolvikings

Reworking an older Bronco idea...

On 12/30/2016 at 0:30 PM, Mings said:

Agree with McCarthy, this is great! I love the style. Are you using grounds or just laying on paint thickly?

 

I do a kind of complicated primer technique.  One thin coat of gesso, followed by a thick coat with a little fine sand added, then a final coat of straight gesso.  I like the texture, and it gives me the ability to pull some broken layers of color.  Plus, I just paint pretty thick anyway.

Just finished this commission for someone... I think it was a Christmas present for a wife/GF...

On 12/23/2016 at 6:41 PM, Mings said:

Well damn it's like I'm posting to myself at this point.

I'm still here.

15 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Anybody have an opinion about how legitimate this site might be?

 

http://www.vikingscustom.com/

15 hours ago, dont care said:

Since they are selling game and limited it looks pretty legit

I'm asking because they have sizes and players that the NFL's official shop doesn't.  Plus everything is significantly cheaper.  For instance, they're selling Limiteds for $100... how does that work?  You know, the old saying... if it seems to good to be true...

Anyway, I just wanted somebody with a sense for these things to check out the website and give me an opinion.

Anybody have an opinion about how legitimate this site might be?

http://www.vikingscustom.com/

I've done a few commissions for dog owners.  It started when an elderly lady approached me at a gallery opening and asked me if I'd consider doing a portrait of her dog.  I told her I really didn't do that sort of thing, I was pretty sure she'd be disappointed.  When I start a painting, I can't really promise where it'll go, what colors I'd use, etc.  She said that was fine, that she liked my style, and just wanted to see what I'd come up with.  She also offered to pay me half up front.  Then she showed me a picture of her dog... an incredibly old one-eyed pekanese... at that point I was sold.  Here's what the poor old guy looked like;

And here's what I gave her;

Strangely enough, she loved it.  Word got around a bit and I've since done a few more...

9 hours ago, Mings said:

@oldschoolvikings @daniel75 Do you guys scan your paintings? If so before or after varnish?

 

Also, I've officially sold a painting and said church's wants to display my work for sale in it! I better get going on more paintings. Not bad for a hobby.

I use a digital camera.  Some of those images, if they're older, might be scans of slides. Scanning the painting directly is kind of out of the question since my standard size (probably more than half) is 52" X 40".   And I generally don't varnish at all... they are acrylic, which is already annoyingly shiny, and fairly indestructible.   

OK... some more;

A view of the studio...

51 minutes ago, Mings said:

Have any of you sold a painting before? I have a friend that wants to buy the latest one but not sure how much to charge.

I've sold a lot.  (Not as much as I'd like, obviously, but I have been at this professionally for 20+ years.)  When I was an undergraduate a painting prof gave me a amateur/beginner pricing guide.  He said if you've never sold, or sold very little, cover the cost of all materials and then give yourself $25 to $35 an hour. (of course, that was the late 80's.)  That was sort of helpful, but falls apart pretty quick.  Usual, for me anyway, it's hard to say how much time you actual spend on any given painting. Sometimes they come together pretty quick, other times you struggle, but that isn't likely to show on the final result.  I once sold a painting that took me less then a half hour for a ridiculous amount of money, but I gave half of the sale to a gallery.  Once you get into the gallery/juried show/agent business, they start to basically tell you how much to charge.  Galleries will generally take %40 to %50 of the sale, agents %10 to %20.

Here's what I would say.  Don't charge too little.  If you basically try to just give it away for a song, you're devaluing your time, and worse, you're telling the person who wants to buy it that they have crappy taste.  And if the work means something to you, you'll regret just giving it away for a small amount.  When I was younger, I made some stuff that meant a lot to me, and its all gone now.  I wanted to sell it, I'm pretty much glad that I sold it, but I wouldn't mind if I'd gotten just a bit more for it.

7 hours ago, Mings said:

Those are pretty great Daniel. Would love to know how you are getting such crisp line work - bright brushes?

 

On my geometric painting I cheated and used Painters Tape, but it did get the desired result.

That's not cheating.  That's why they call it painter's tape.

Awesome.

And this guy has, of course, sleeve stripes!

12 hours ago, Mings said:

I don't think there is any such thing as flooding this thread!

Well, OK then...

1 hour ago, BrandMooreArt said:

really great stuff OSV. thanks for sharing

 

its been a few years since ive done anything on canvas. heres the last one that i didn't even finish. 

 

once in a while i'll do something digitally though. these are more fun for me. 

 

Whoa... that digital work is real nice!

I've recently tried my hand at some digital images (not counting my never ending uniform concepts), but I feel a little out of my element with them.

I originally intended them to be preliminary ideas for paintings, but with the patterns and text, they kind of became their own thing.

(By the way, I apologize for flooding this thread... let me know if it's annoying.)

This one ("Anxiety Bear #3 Blue) became part of the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, which sound awesome on my resume, but you won't see it if you go there.  They buy a piece of local art annually, but where they put it, I don't know.  Maybe they'll hang it when I'm dead.

Couple more bears...

Here's some from a series of been dealing with for about a dozen years now.  Titled "Anxiety Bear" based on my fathers then impending heart surgery and my panic disorder that came from it...

New Packers and Steelers... home, road, alts (in this case, both throwbacks) and color rush uniforms.

New Jags... playing off their original look.

11 minutes ago, mbannon92 said:

Not a huge fan of the color scheme or uniforms for Broncos, but that alternate logo is excellent. Great way to bring back the D without the awkwardness of a horse being worked in. Change the mane back to orange and it's a winner.

Broncos... modern take on their late 60's gear.  Weird number font, and new secondary logo on the sleeve.

9 hours ago, ahowe6464 said:

Glad that orange is the primary jersey, but I don't think it would go well with black pants

They could mix and match.