Artist Ixygon

[Seriy]

1.Slivy.
30x40 cm, oil on canvas

2.
Are you jealous?
40x30, oil on paper.
Moscow planned to write a great option on the canvas.

3.
Spin "Atomic Heart".
30x30, alkyd, cardboard.

[Fed]

Knowing your passion for the technical side, has long wanted to ask: how many grams of paint can go on painting 60x80?
Simply order of numbers.

[Seriy]

Fed, but it depends on how you use the paint . If - how much paint is on the middle of the picture size? probably no more than 40 grams .
And if you spend several commercial artist paint on the painting , the answer is much wider. Have you seen how many Tsereteli squeezes on your palette ? Kilograms ! and paints a picture of one meter .
I now go to a full-scale studio , most of the artists pushes the palette a lot, at the end of it all scraped off and goes in the trash. Palette need for a sense of color, it is to make a mixture , sometimes several , and in the case can go one stroke of the three batches .
For commercial art, when every gram saved and written a number of right - the circulation , consumption is even less I said .

[Fed]

And with "do not pound" palette?
For the full cycle of a single picture, with the palette.

[Seriy]

Fed, I do not know , this is very individual for each artist and sponginess , and how much he has to paint on the palette. Ratio - the paint on the painting /all used paint, probably an average of about 1/3-5 . In addition to the palette , there is the dried tubes . I only spent a tube of white paint completely. Here is a movie with Aaron Buhom - front of him are pots , cups full of paint , he crumples the paper, dunks in a cup, then pressed to the picture, a newspaper with a paint rolls , crumpling a new one. And the colors in a cup of dry , te periodically thrown cup with dried paint. How can you and what have counted ?
Accurately counted only commerce, when the effective spreading rate of more than 50 %- all the same, because something is on the palette, on the hands and in a tube.

[Fed]

I decided to carefully calculate the cost of painting materials produced only highest quality, including consumables .
To estimate the order , and generally have an idea .
And not to strain to wholesale.

It turns from $ 60 to $ 110 (depending on the style ) .

By the way, the output side , - $ 250 for the painting is an acceptable price to Ukrainian artist received , in the aggregate, a decent wage , standing quality materials.

One problem packs buy beautiful work to $ 150 . Then the flow thins out altogether. So, for the mass , there is a gap of 60 dollars .
And , in that case , we leave to the average salary in Ukraine. + "Fat " when buying in bulk.

[Seriy]

Fed, I do not understand , you want to order and sell cheap paintings?
As for wages in Ukraine , I can judge by construction workers , the average wage in theory construction worker $ 300 per month, in fact, for such money can not find anyone qualified , really , from $ 1,000 and above.

[Fed]

I do not.
The average salary of 400 , while the demand -1000 as written.

The issue arose because the I watched without much interest a large number of low-cost operations. And out of the total number of 1 struggled work . The usual local impressionism, but it was clear that a very high quality materials . I was told that this "feature" that sells artist. The picture has departed the next day for $ 200 .
And I remember it was an unusual quality. So I decided to count more carefully , for what " struggling " artist .

And long thought that the road - spoon for dinner : there was this picture of 100-120 years ago , would have sported in the museum.
If these thoughts come to mind on the quality , the order should be done specifying materials .

[Seriy]

Of course, the material quality, the better the picture looks at all other conditions.
I've plums which led wrote on paper first , and then the same thing , oil on canvas , oil on canvas , by the way , the Ukrainian producer , Maestro (rosa.ua). And maybe on the paper came out fresh and immediate, but the quality of the image , the touch, the canvas is very different .
Yes, there are artists who write only in Italian canvases , good brushes and expensive paints. I can not imagine that someone of such artists sold for $ 200 60x80 Rather , the reason for the low price was some kind of thread the other . But if there is such an artist , so what are the problems ? - Buy it for 200 , sell at Christie's for 1000 .
I am writing on cheap canvases cheap and cheap paint brushes . Exclusion of cheapness - I do not like to write on cotton . If the price of my paintings was higher, would gladly have passed all expensive.
But the reality is that the plums on paper will go faster drain on the canvas , because ... cheaper.

[Pablo]

Сообщение от Seriy

I do not like to write on cotton

I wonder why?

I had an experience with cotton - materials bought at a fabric store, cotton.
A little hairless, but it still lifes were produced amazing.