April 4th, 2006 by admin
Enjoyment and Wanting to Live With Speaks
Big Valley 1 - Digital Painting 2005 - Gallery Page
The best reason to buy a piece of art is because you really enjoy looking at it. It makes you feel good when you are around it. It makes you wander inside it. It says something to you that you don’t hear elsewhere. It makes you see in a way you had not before.
Anything along the above lines is an excellent reason to buy art. And to me it is the reason to buy art.
Other considerations usually involve value or others’ approval. Though the advantage of something original over a reproduction might also be one of integrity - wanting more of what the artist intended.
A lot of my enthusiasm for the art prints being offered at Outhouse Studios is that they are indeed original works of art - being the only way they can be viewed other than a computer monitor (not practical).
They are also printed with accurate color and the intent of the artist. They are printed with the best pigment inks and should last for generations - but that unto itself is not a compelling reason to buy.
Be it here or there, find art with which you want to live.
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November 11th, 2005 by admin
Art Prints, Reproductions, Original Artwork
Rolling Fields - Digital Painting - 2004
There are many reasons for buying art. My own feeling is that one should buy work that speaks to you. One of the ways of knowing is if the work stands the test of time. The above piece is such a work for me.
As an artist, one of the ways I know a piece is as good as what I originally think, is whether it continues to grow on me - whether I look at it with joy when I come back to it.
Though occasionally one finds a piece which just completely mesmerizes - it is probably the exception rather than the rule.
As a purchaser, one will probably not want to take months or years to decide, but most of the time one can come back to the work at another time and see if it evokes the same response.
Whatever one chooses to live with - requires this kind of test. Even if one is on a budget buying poster art, we go through some of this process -even though the work can be changed and/or removed without much guilt. Actually, I change my walls several times a year because I have a lot more art than walls to put it on.
To me - I would always prefer to have original art over a reproduction though I own both. Something original and possibly unique is more special - possibly, because a lithograph, serigraph, or etching is original but not necessarily unique.
Outhouse studios offers a new alternative such as above - it is what I see as the modern day lithograph - the work is created on the computer and each archival giclée print is an original.
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