Heart of Shells (from the series Bad Trip – Sad Trip)
Last spring I had read a couple of photo-blogs in which it was observed that photographers were actually printing less and less of their images. Photograhpers and artists were going straight to the internet (gallery) with little and sometimes no actually hard copy printing. Eh? To be a photographer is to be a printer in my way of thinking. Okay, perhaps a little more old school, eh?
For me, I will not commit on a given image as being complete unt I have printed it.
Best regards, Doug
Note: I was having some issues posting this message on the WordPress blog site and only later I realized that my message was part posted; so its completed now…..
Fishing (from the series A Sideways Glance)
An image made earlier in the week, but I have fine tuned it today for this post. I enjoy flyfishing and as many times as I have driven by the dinky associated man-made lake that this rock sign is beckoning the passing drivers to, I have never had any inclinication to stop. Not once.
Best regards, Doug
Entrance (from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir)
I have decided to end my every Friday blog post ArtBiz101 series for a number of reasons.
First, I was finding that I was spending more time on researching the material for this series, which was taking away time from my own art projects. I had flirted with the idea that at the end of a year, packaging these posts together in a LuLu book. But again, that would have also taken a lot of time. And what you soon find in life, is that time is very valuable. You are very limited in the time you have available, and I want to make the most of it!
Second, I did not anticipate or really want to make a “career” out of art marketing. There are some that have chosen that path, but I already have a nice day job career, I don’t need another one. I would rather spend my time on developing my creative vision and trying to better understand myself and sharing what I see.
So in the marketing parlance, I did a trial balloon with the ArtBiz101 series and it did not float! I did make one good connection on my Pricing article but I do not see that this series I wrote met a need. One nice thing about a blog is that there are statistics that give you feedback about what viewers read. The ArtBiz101 did not get many reads;- )
I am going to keep this series of articles active in my blog archives in the Art Market section for a while nevertheless.
Best regards, Doug
