03/10/2006: "Test IV"

on Saturday, March 11th, berry bowman connell said

OK and the other reason it took me four years to get my two year degree is....."what's a deadline?"

About a b'zillion posts ago you spoke of folks wanting to buy from you pieces prior to their finish. Thought you had several good comments there, but, kept revisiting it for some reason. Well, besides liking to see your work in progress, which doesn't really look so much different, but, where 'puters are concerned, I dunno. They may be repainted twice over but the color restrictions of a 'puter is such that who would know? Y'know what I mean? Heck, that don't matter either.
I saw one comment that caught me as incredibly valid, it pertained to what you want out of your art. Then again, by reading more, we see that you are thinking about attempting a trip to Europe and points east, and you are right in that you will need to scrounge up some big bucks, even if your boyfriend's covering some of your costs. And that appears to be the crux of the matter....can you sell a thing you feel is unfinished, delay the sale till it is finished, cash the check now for futures, or just plain walk away from the deal till you feel good about it. Whoa, gal! You got quite a corner on options there, but, the one comment still stands out strongly....how do you feel about the art, the piece specifically?
How about one more different optyion, and dang if it isn't popular from impressionistic France in the early twentieth century....only you have an advantage those guys never did. Well, they did have the option then, but, probably none had considered it (until Dali, that is...)
Take some good pictures of the paintings in question, or actually, you should already have that done with all your paintings. With the fresh photos in hand, sell what you will to whomever will buy them at prices you feel are appropriate, and don't think for a second that value is reflected by "finish" because it isn't.
You aren't talking aboput selling the rights, are you? Then, with your money in hand, go to the art store, buy some more stretchers, canvas, paint, a treat (I usually buy a box of Sugar Pops, though they don't call it that anymore,) and go home, print out your picture and paint it again. Lessee here, from whom would you be modeling? Yes, me, of course, but I came by it honestly from Monet, van Gogh, Lautrec, Seurat, Braque, Modigliani, Johns, Toby, Rothko, (what? do you need more?) Picasso, Cezanne (who also sold FLOCKS of unfinished paintings that he said were...or did he?) and well heck. I'de have to name most contemporaries, also.
How many haystacks do you suppose there are out there? And though several artists do self portraits, for crying out loud, they usually pick a different pose once and a while, where our friend Vincent picked a sketch he had done of himself (his "picture" if you will) and reproduced some of the world's most expensive "copies"....
not to mention the stunt with the sunflowers and Gaugin, but, that's another story altogether.
And, as I have only basic "user" skills on the 'puter (y'know, I see that "rss" somewhere, but still have no idea of what it is. Heck, only this morning did I find out that "lol " means "laughing out loud" and that it is the most misused letter thingie out there. Shoot, I don't even know what it's called....an acronym....) and being such a dinosaur, it's time to pack up and march forth. Or, well in this case, march eleventh....