Special Webpage for Art Sales to Clients

I was recently asked by one of my regular clients if there was a listing of less expensive works of art that I have created. He was very apologetic about how the economy had hit him but with a special occasion coming, he wanted to invest in more of my art.

I took his dilemma to heart. And also realized he had spawned a thought as to how to provide a ‘special’ sales event for a client while creating a market for my experiments, sketches and smaller works.

First I created a webpage with the address of donaldkolberg.com/myclients name. Then I took photos of a variety of pieces uploaded them with sizes and prices. Finally I sent an email to the client. In the email I stressed that this page had been created especially for him, note the address, and that it would only be accessable for one week.  This resulted in establishing a bond between my client and myself that actually resulted in two pieces of art being sold for a larger amount then I had at first expected. I also received a thank you for understanding his position and for provided such a wonderful direct online experience.

Since this episode I have explored some of what my clients have bought in the past and created webpages to include in emails directly to them offering the same terms. This is one process that now has become a regular part of my art marketing course and has given a jump start to a sagging art sales season.

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ART SOUP

A recipe for excuses that you can serve anytime of year

Ingredients

  • one large project
  • a number of small projects
  • a squeeze of time
  • reduced desire to succeed
  • a dash of taking the easy way out
  • a disorganized studio
  • a large jar of lack of focus
  • a minimum sense of commitment

Directions

In your mind, combine your lack of focus and your disorganization and place them in the center of your studio. Using another part of your brain mix a reduced desire to succeed with a squeeze of time and spread this across your large and small projects until completely coated.
Pour the mixture over your lack of commitment  adding a dash of taking the easy way out on top of the whole mess for decoration.

Procrastinate until you are ready to STOP MAKING EXCUSES AND REALLY DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR ART

LEARN more about how to make your ART successful in the  ARTCORE NEWSLETTER

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Discovery of Lee Bontecou

I can across a Dec. 9, 2010 blogpost by Nancy Natale, The Discovery of Lee Bontecou. This Art in the Studio post included a great short video on the artist’s work, a  5-minute YouTube video by Veronica Roberts, curator of “All Freedom In Every Sense,” the small MoMA show of Bontecou’s work this past summer. This video completely captured me so I had to repost it here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did

 

Art Core Newsletter Aug/Sept Online Now

The Art Core Aug/Sept newsletter edition is now online  And it’s still FREE

The feature Interview is with Louise P Sloane whose work focuses on geometric forms, grids, repetitive motifs and lushly layered color with a fascination with mark making as a fundamental principal

A article by  Jeremy Fitz  on Robert Raushenberg an American Collage Artist


‘What is Art’ by Liam Huston of www.theopening.us   The answer may surprise you!

‘Woven Art as an Art Form’ by Judith Schwartz  Although associated primarily with fabric and two-dimensional swaths of cloth, weaving as a medium provides a large range of possibilities for sculpture.

“An Incredible American Collage Artist Named Robert Raushenberg ” by Jeremy Fitz

And a Quick Look at the amazing work of  Astrid Fitzgerald 

 

 

 

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Where Art Begins, A Visual Language

I believe that everyone wants to express some inner mood or feeling through a visual language that others can understand. Rembrandt, aside from all his other incredible work, expressed his inner exploration through self portraits. Dozens of these works span his lifetime, giving expression to a visual language that speaks about each separate period in his life. Other artists froze moments in humanity creating not just a picture of a time but a feeling. Still others stripped the image bare and gave us pure emotion, movement, texture or color and let us decide what we are seeing. Sculptors have presented us with ideals of the human form. Others have created assemblages that move us to examine our own beliefs. Others create environments where we can let our own ideas run amuck. So I guess where I’m going with this very scaled down anthology of the history of art is that ART BEGINS EVERYWHERE.

And visual thinking is at the core of it all. I know some people will jump up and ask about all those other senses. But think about it. In fact let’s take the time to explore a simple idea that will become one of the most complicated examples I can present.

In your mind picture a house.  Did you picture a suburban ranch with three bedrooms, an apartment in a crowded city, a hut in an open landscape or the mansion of your dreams. Was the feeling happy, sad, disgust, envy or maybe even a sense of longing?  Take the time and listen to the sounds around your imagined house. Be aware of what’s going on around the house. Can you smell cooking or a new mowed lawn or the accumulation of garbage along the side of the house? When we perceive an object, in this case a house, we are conscious of it through all our senses but we know it through a variety of cues and associations related to our visual language. The more developed the language the deeper the meaning of the object. If we picture garbage we can smell it, if we see an empty room we sense its lack of life.

It is in our ability to go beyond our growth in this visual awareness past the limits of our sensory impressions and definitions that will allow us to know where art begins.

I will continue this exploration in future installments

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