Ball Python Art Prints

[Nate]

put me on the list and send me an invoice. please. thank you.

[racer69]

that is completly beautiful....ink and pencil drwigns are the way to go .....and i myself also think they are harder to do becuase of shading and stuff.....deff worth more!! here are some pics of my kids form 3 years ago. so i really appreciate your art, especially knowing how long it takes to do one in ink or pencil

[EMH]

Beautiful piece of work there
I’d buy it no Questions asked


Eric

[sho220]

that is completly beautiful....ink and pencil drwigns are the way to go .....and i myself also think they are harder to do becuase of shading and stuff.....deff worth more!! here are some pics of my kids form 3 years ago. so i really appreciate your art, especially knowing how long it takes to do one in ink or pencil

Nice drawings Dan! Hard to say which is harder between drawing and painting...drawing is definitely more unforgiving as far as mistakes go. With oil paints you can just wipe it off, or paint right over it. They are just a very different medium altogether. Here's a painting I'm working on now, which is about to lose the bottom "road" thing on the right side. If this was an ink or pencil drawing, I'd be starting over.

[Laooda]

I would totally purchase that... I'm a firm believer of supporting art! And your stuff is always amazing! (Love the painting^)

[Melicious]

I love the black and white. -Grins.- Maybe I could get you to design my tattoo? ^_^

[Muze]

I just went to Art Basel over the weekend, and I so wished there would have been some BP related art...lol. Your work is great. I could see a collection or something of the sort...

[Bruce Whitehead]

I said no... not because it isn't nice work, but I just tend to veer away from prints.

I think too many artists run off prints, rather than working on producing more original art. It is selling the same piece x 5 - 500 (or worse for an open ended run, at which point it is just a poster).

I have bought originals in the past, only to have the artist do a print run after the fact... I just feel that once there is a print run, the work is no longer an original.

Just my 0.02.

Bruce

[Morphie]

I have bought originals in the past, only to have the artist do a print run after the fact... I just feel that once there is a print run, the work is no longer an original.

By selling prints, the artist is doing you both a favor - he is making more money off of the hard work that he put into the original, and he is popularizing the image, making your original much, much more valuable.

Artists, unless they're really popular and well-known (and even most of *those* aren't before they die), tend to make squat for their work in general - and that's not even counting the time it took practicing to get good enough to make a decent piece of work like what the OP posted. "Steering away from prints" may be a luxury you can afford, but if everyone did that, artists would have to charge an arm and a leg for their work, further limiting the numbers of people who can and will afford (and display) their work. Be an art snob if you must, but there's scarcely a celebrated piece out there that doesn't have prints made - are you saying the Mona Lisa isn't an original piece? I mean... really.

[Bruce Whitehead]

Don't get your knickers in a twist Morphie.

The OP wanted an opinion regarding prints and I gave one. It is not to diminish the OP, but rather to offer an opinion/feedback.

I do not have a problem with people selling prints, I just think that sometimes artists focus on prints, when getting originals out there (for not that much more money) is always an option.

I may know a thing or two about art (art sales and art value), so I am pretty confident in my feedback to them. Which is exactly what it was, feedback for an artist that wanted to know what opinions are regarding print work.

Bruce

PS: As for your comment that prints increase the value of an original. Where exactly did you come by this information?