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Jan 252012
If you love creating visual artwork like I do, I’m sure you would love to make that a full time activity without depending on someone else to pay the bills. Unless you have won the lottery or got a huge inheritance, you need to work to make money to pay those bills so what do you do?
Of course you should sell your artwork online. I’ll be discussing where and how in other articles, but here I want to write about dealing with online rejection.
Jan 102012
Throughout history, humans have associated colour with their experiences, their joys, hopes, pleasures and sadness. And many artists use colour to express themselves more forcefully than the image alone can do. They might express hope by a light yellow against a dark background or lovers’ passion by the radiance of the sun. But whilst a visual artist needs to study colour theory and the use of colour as a means of expression, for the viewer, a formal understanding of colour does nothing to enhance the appreciation of an artwork or affect their instinctive reaction to it.
Many articles on colour try to explain the theory of colour as if by understanding colour theory the viewer can better appreciate the art. But a human’s reaction to certain colours is a fundamental biological response. We are, of course, also influenced by colour associations from our culture and, very importantly, our own individual preferences. So an understanding of colour theory will not affect our personal response to a particular painting. And whilst the ideas and inspiration behind a particular painting are a very important element in our appreciation of a work of art, the specific colours and how they are used together are also a major part of our emotional response to what we see.
Jan 102012
Hardship and trauma found no place to fester and consume the lives of children I had the privilege of meeting from the Gifted and Talented Visual Arts Program. Their inspirational teacher, Mr Ian Hale accompanied the students to a showing of their work and from him, I gleaned the following information.
National and international companies have commissioned art works to be completed by these gifted and talented children. The most expensive piece came in at $10,000 and hangs in the entrance foyer at 175 Castlereagh St. Sydney in a head office. The total value of art sold for the year of 2009 was $40,000 which was used by The Student Enterprise Group to fund the Extension Program.