Polite Dissent

I swung by Archon today. I like to spend an hour or two in the art room, going up and down the rows of paintings, drawings and other works. As always, there were many beautiful paintings and sculptures that I would love to own, but an equal number of amateurish one (and I’m not talking about the children’s art display).

1. Please bring along some business cards, or at least post a website address. I may not be looking to buy anything today, but there’s a good chance I will in the future.
2. Just because you can draw a naked women doesn’t mean you should. Really.
3. Pay attention to how women actually sit.
4. I know there are artists (including several in the comic book industry) whose every image is simply a reworking of someone elses’s photograph, often from Playboy or a simlar source. Don’t be one of those artists. It’s sad when four paintings by four different artists all have the idential pose, down to the hands and shadows. And a painfully unlikely pose at that.
5. If you’re going to matt your own work, make sure the matt color and cut complents the art. Bend, dinged and scuffed matts look horrible. Prints that are matted do look a little more professional, but it also limits my options as the buyer.