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for my 1st show , I am happy to get anything I could get with this gallery seeing they have a 2 year waiting list and I only meet these people 5 weeks ago. These are the giclee prints I'm selling for $300.00 each.
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Thanks Steve, Don and Ted. Ted their not cheep to get done. So if they don't sell I am doing a 50/50 with the RMEF banquet coming up in August. Even if they sell I will have more prints made for the Banquet. It should be a good way to get my name out there.
 
Good luck, the wall looks good. I may have to look in to the giclee for a couple of paintings my son did years ago. I assume that the shop/printer has to have the original to reproduce from?

Edit: Looking around, some offer the certificate (of authenticity), I assume this is a must?
 
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I really don't see how luck plays in, you should have not trouble selling artwork like that. Do you number the prints and sign them? I don't know how this stuff works. Beautiful pictures.
 
Doug I will number them 1/250 ea.
I say luck because I have been approached a couple of time to show and both times the review boards shot my work down. One was the National Indian Museum in DC and the other was the RMEF national show.
So I am hoping for a good showing here.

Darren if you have the originals the printer will have to scan them and then print them. all totaled its about $145.00 buck ea. for the 1st printing.
 
Congrats, Dave. :thumb: Those five prints make a nice grouping, too. :clap: (The picture hanger in me wants to straighten and level the prints, though. Never was real fond of that type of hanging system, but you gotta use what the gallery has.)
 
Vaughn made the points that i thought. The hanging system does not do your work any justice neither does them being skew.

Dave any chance of making a single black board with prints arranged on it as per image and then hanging that single board. That way the pictures get their say and not the distraction of the galleries hanging system. I find that white stip very off putting not doing justice to your work at all.

Dave in my opinion you need to get these images exposed to the right audience. I dont have a doubt in my head as to the value at all and you should not either. But getting it in front of the right audience is important.

This gets back to marketing marketing marketing. Sure good work like this should not need it but todays world is full of clutter with all sorts of valueless crap dominating.

Consider doing something with this organization.

http://wolfeducation.org/

I dont know the organization at all just did a search and found it. But i can think of a dozen ways in which they could help you and you could help their cause. They have a following that is committed to wolves. Automatically they appreciate what you have captured.

A silent auction of a donated set something like that via facebook will get all sorts of wolves and wildlife lovers coming out the woodwork.

Here is another one.

http://howlcolorado.org/

http://www.mexicanwolves.org/index.php

http://www.graywolfconservation.com/home.htm

http://www.canadianwolfcoalition.com/


Just go to some of these organizations and look up their links for even more links to wolf orgs.

http://www.canadianwolfcoalition.com/node/62


To me the sky is the limit with these paintings. They will get a lot of oooos and ahhhhs in the gallery but hey thats nice like atta boys. But they dont buy jerky or ammo for the next turkey hunt. ;) Neither do they pay for bike repairs. :D


To a wolf fan these prints and the original will be no problem dropping the coin. Lets remember what coin we all have dropped on woodworking. The folks into wolves will do the same especially if you say well donate x% of each sale to the organization.

Dont feel uncomfortable with marketing your work. There is no need to have to be a deceased artist to get your work appreciated in the age of rapid communication and the internet.

Not every day we see an artist with your skill and then not every day we see a wolf painted so well in their natural setting.


I think you gotta get Jarrod on the job. :D:thumb: you may be hitting the back side of that hill to do this.;)
 
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