by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 24, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View
How Do You Put a Value on Art? “Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.” John D. Rockefeller I recently blogged about the valuation of art. Many find the commodification of one’s creative output...
by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 14, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View
Low-balling Art Is a Flop I’ve been running a little marketing experiment lately. I’ve been offering recent demo paintings for a much lower price than one might expect to pay at an art fair or even a framed print in a frame shop. Very often, these demo...
by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 10, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View
Baby Portraits in Charcoal and Conte My dear friend Jason Zwiker asked me to create a couple charcoals sketches from photographs he had. I decided to go with the toned paper, with conte. I love the look of these drawings and am hoping to have the opportunity to more...
by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 6, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, World View
Who really knows their Right from their Left? The traditional Right vs Left brain conversation is not giving us the complete picture. New findings suggest that people are not necessarily more functional on one hemisphere of their brain over the other. I have done...
by netGALAXY Studios | Mar 4, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View
Mountain Majesty, 16 x 20″ oil on canvas, framed by the artist Here’s the latest demo from a really fun painting party. I worked on it after everyone left, experimenting with some crazy colors to create a bit more vibration. I may have gone too far with...
by netGALAXY Studios | Feb 28, 2014 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View
Fight for Peace! There is an insane culture of Double-speak in this country. Following is by no means a complete list: We must . . . tolerate others’ intolerance. protect our freedom by curtailing others’ freedoms. protect our right to impede others’ rights. execute...