This isn't invariable, but I personally--in my larger figures, which represent a good proportion of my work--generally will do a highly worked-up drawing in pencil & chalks before starting on a painting. (3/)pic.twitter.com/UYyBN8xdqh
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This isn't invariable, but I personally--in my larger figures, which represent a good proportion of my work--generally will do a highly worked-up drawing in pencil & chalks before starting on a painting. (3/)pic.twitter.com/UYyBN8xdqh
This isn't actually me being at my most traditional or rigorous! Sargent here, for example, in "Gassed" is working in a traditional way, with a lot of looser studies of individual heads, hands, figures, and he probably did a small painted study to work out the color. (4/)pic.twitter.com/i36Hmn9lCF
I personally fuse a lot of that into the drawing, working through variants of heads and hands in the course of the pencil (which I consider itself a stand-alone piece of art, part of making the painting, but nonetheless an independent statement.) (5/)pic.twitter.com/m004tduDU3
Basically, I like drawing, I think it offers its own expressive possibilities, and sometimes I get burned out on painting. Sometimes that means I need to shuffle around like a useless wraith for a few weeks, but sometimes I just need to put down the brush & draw instead. (6/)pic.twitter.com/pWGL7mvbCg
I promised to talk about career practicalities too, though, so here goes: these drawings-as-independent-artworks are important to me & something I'd do even if I had eight figures in the bank, but in the real world, they're also awesome for helping smooth my way. (7/)pic.twitter.com/h7elUkGyp3
As a rule, sheets full of quick sketches of heads and hands and variants simply aren't salable objects. Certainly there are exceptions, and there are collectors who are very interested in the process, but as a generality, they're functional & will get filed or destroyed. (8/)pic.twitter.com/ddAuM3o9MH
And let's talk specifics: it costs about $1-1.5k to take a figure from blank canvas to "there is a painting in a frame ready to hang on the wall." I'm maybe unusually profligate in model time, frames, and materials, but nonetheless; a show with 15 pieces requires capital. (9/)pic.twitter.com/4lONQ446TG
would love to read an expansion of this - how much in model fees, paint, canvas, frame, studio overhead, gallery mark up, hourly profit to artist (ranges, obv), etc.
I'll have to think about whether I can break a lot of that out usefully. Some of it, like the studio overhead & the hourly rate I have no idea about, since this is basically a lifestyle choice. Although I guess I could look at what my home office deduction has been XD
sure, but you could interpolate and guestimate: - one canvas: $100 - one frame: $200 - paint: 1/4 of 10 tubes = 2.5 tubes = $40 - 20 hours model = $300 - brushes, general depreciation: $50 total: $690 materials / COGS sell price: $4k profit = $3,310 hours: 80 $/hr = ...
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