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[Wingboy]

Went to Crescent Hill gallery this aft in Mississauga. Thinking of buying a John Lightfoot painting.

New landscapes by John Lightfoot – Crescent Hill Gallery

John Lightfoot delivers a few new stunning landscape pieces to the gallery. Highly sought after, these new works dive into some deep colour palettes and offer our imagination a lush playground to either escape into the details or marvel at their collective composition. John’s work often...

www.crescenthill.com

 

[Fuzzbuster]

Went to Crescent Hill gallery this aft in Mississauga. Thinking of buying a John Lightfoot painting.

New landscapes by John Lightfoot – Crescent Hill Gallery

John Lightfoot delivers a few new stunning landscape pieces to the gallery. Highly sought after, these new works dive into some deep colour palettes and offer our imagination a lush playground to either escape into the details or marvel at their collective composition. John’s work often...

www.crescenthill.com

Very nice! I like the middle one, the leaves that are still on the trees look like stain glass!

 

[Wingboy]

Very nice! I like the middle one, the leaves that are still on the trees look like stain glass!

Maybe this one.

 

[mimico_polak]

Beautiful pieces!

 

[ifiddles]

Maybe this one.
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out of curiosity, how much does something like that go for?

 

[GreyGhost]

out of curiosity, how much does something like that go for?

Many painters price per sq ft. My guess is ~3-4k for an original. 20x less for a print. If you like an artist and want originals but can't afford a big one, a little one will often be much cheaper.

 

[ReSTored]

Over the years we have acquired a range of things, often from family when they pass on.

We like Bateman and attended a few auctions that had numbered prints.

As an example there is Black Eagle. We have 863 of 950

Pardon Our Interruption...

ROBERT BATEMAN 21X14 Secondary Market Art: "BLACK EAGLE"

ROBERT BATEMAN 21X14 Secondary Market Art: "BLACK EAGLE" Artist: ROBERT BATEMAN Title: BLACK EAGLE Availability: LOW Edition: Limited Condition: All works are guaranteed to be in MINT CONDITION.

www.gallerydirectart.com

 

[Wingboy]

out of curiosity, how much does something like that go for?

Approx $4500 framed.

 

[mimico_polak]

out of curiosity, how much does something like that go for?

On that site in particular they have a range of pricing. $3400-4000 is what I saw.

Add a frame, tax, and you’re probably close to the 4500-5000$ mark.

Too rich for my blood.

 

[Fuzzbuster]

New art is still pricey. Famous or well known art is still doing well. Older stuff less known can be found dirt cheap and some of it is equally as nice as the newer! My eye is always looking for the unwanted!

 

[ifiddles]

Definitely out of my price range and most importantly, out of my 'appreciation' range...

 

[MacDoc]

One key piece we moved to Australia was Peter Javer's
Where There's Water There's Life

His work Peter Jarver - Fine Art Australian Landscape Photography
I enjoy it all time...in theory it has doubled in value. Who knows...not going anywhere.
This piece blew my budget one year at One of a Kind.
Called Universe ...it's companion ( I was offered it at the same time by the artist ) is in one of the museums.....might be the Corning Glassworks in Corning New York ( a great destination for riding ). https://home.cmog.org/
This does not have it but the Toronto artist developed the technique of embedding photos inside the glass...quite spooky to see. This has 24 carat gold - don't recall the red composition

The matching ammonites are a romantic exercise I bought in South Africa when I was single and are embedded with opals which show up in the sun. Gave half to partner and we kept them by our beds even tho a long way apart....yeah yeah soppy but keeping a long range relationship going for a decade is not so easy.
There were a lot of pieces I left behind, sold or gave to the kids.

 

[crankcall]

I can guarantee anything we have considered art will be available at the nearest ValueVillage or Salvation Army store 48 hours after my funeral. My kids have zero interest in anything.
Even the things I collect , knives with marlin spikes ( yes odd I get that) , a former humidor full of mid grade watches ( won’t link to a smart phone) safe full of Skeet guns ( harder to ditch) and a rack full of bamboo fly rods ( they are just old) . All the wall art will get pitched or regifted .


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[crankcall]

This is an original acrylic in my dining room , painted from a photograph. The Empire Sandy , a tour boat sailed through our race course and that’s my old race boat trying to get around that yellow mark. He was giving the tourists a view . The width between the race mark and his ship was about 15ft and I was 12ft wide . It’s just a fun story . I’m in the bottom corner steering . I had to buy it , when will I ever be in a painting again.


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[Fuzzbuster]

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This is an original acrylic in my dining room , painted from a photograph. The Empire Sandy , a tour boat sailed through our race course and that’s my old race boat trying to get around that yellow mark. He was giving the tourists a view . The width between the race mark and his ship was about 15ft and I was 12ft wide . It’s just a fun story . I’m in the bottom corner steering . I had to buy it , when will I ever be in a painting again.


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That is a neat story and a great painting! You should write down all that information and keep it with the painting on the back. I find most art has no information and significantly devalues it to most. Most of the time a signature is incomplete or not legiable. If art has a story it is so much better. So when did you say this one would be heading to value village and which location?

 

[i-WERKS]

As much as I'd love to have some large original paintings, I can't justify spending so much on them. I've come across many awesome pieces in art/craft shows but never did pulled the trigger. Like others here, I mostly have landscape photos from family trips on my walls. I used to paint/sculpt/sketch a lot when I was younger. My last pencil drawing I did was about 30 years back in high school. I was curious to see if I still had it in me so I picked up a pencil set this year and am working on this which is from a photograph.

 

[GreyGhost]

As much as I'd love to have some large original paintings, I can't justify spending so much on them. I've come across many awesome pieces in art/craft shows but never did pulled the trigger. Like others here, I mostly have landscape photos from family trips on my walls. I used to paint/sculpt/sketch a lot when I was younger. My last pencil drawing I did was about 30 years back in high school. I was curious to see if I still had it in me so I picked up a pencil set this year and am working on this which is from a photograph.

I like the sketch infinitely more than the photo. Good job. I have little artistic ability.

 

[backmarkerducati]

My random thoughts pre-coffee...

For us bottom feeders looking for cheap wall hangers but don't want what everyone else has. HomeSense/Winners will have some interesting stuff from time to time. More prints/manufactured items but at least they tend to be low volume in the stores per item so not everyone will have them. In contrast, Ikea, odds are any city dweller will recognize it.

As for real art (paintings), it does cost some money to create. Materials, time, space, etc. It is one of the reasons old (call them used) paintings will often go much cheaper than new as any attempt at cost recovery has sailed. An annoyance for me at the same time is how some artists feel society owes them a "living wage" for their efforts. Well they made something on spec and what is worth is what the market will pay, which is not likely a living wage as a career for most. In contrast, say an engineer, doesn't generally go around designing bridges on spec hoping someone will buy their design, no they work for someone and design what they are told... Want to do art as a living, work for a company and create what they want not what you want (or get famous).... Like the canopy bed I just built for my youngest, $600 in materials (wood etc.), plus my time, tools, etc.... likely could have just bought one for $400--not the point but it is a hobby not a career.

At my office the building is used as an art gallery of sorts. Local artists, all have purchase prices, they get swapped out a few times per year. Not many get bought but it does something to help the local artists. BUT the entire living wage thing is expected by many of them.

Our kids have some talent (as a hobby) so we have some decent items from them in recent years. Also a big fan of blowing up pictures we have taken.

As for motorcycles in the house. I tried but my wife's father (former flat-track racer) had a large collection, easy 50+ bikes--race and road, and of course many bikes in the house that were in various states of disassembly... so she put her foot down as a no hard on that one.

 

[mimico_polak]

As much as I'd love to have some large original paintings, I can't justify spending so much on them. I've come across many awesome pieces in art/craft shows but never did pulled the trigger. Like others here, I mostly have landscape photos from family trips on my walls. I used to paint/sculpt/sketch a lot when I was younger. My last pencil drawing I did was about 30 years back in high school. I was curious to see if I still had it in me so I picked up a pencil set this year and am working on this which is from a photograph.

Beautiful work, and well done! I have zero artistic capabilities so...photographs it is.

 

[nobbie48]

My random thoughts pre-coffee...

For us bottom feeders looking for cheap wall hangers but don't want what everyone else has. HomeSense/Winners will have some interesting stuff from time to time. More prints/manufactured items but at least they tend to be low volume in the stores per item so not everyone will have them. In contrast, Ikea, odds are any city dweller will recognize it.

As for real art (paintings), it does cost some money to create. Materials, time, space, etc. It is one of the reasons old (call them used) paintings will often go much cheaper than new as any attempt at cost recovery has sailed. An annoyance for me at the same time is how some artists feel society owes them a "living wage" for their efforts. Well they made something on spec and what is worth is what the market will pay, which is not likely a living wage as a career for most. In contrast, say an engineer, doesn't generally go around designing bridges on spec hoping someone will buy their design, no they work for someone and design what they are told... Want to do art as a living, work for a company and create what they want not what you want (or get famous).... Like the canopy bed I just built for my youngest, $600 in materials (wood etc.), plus my time, tools, etc.... likely could have just bought one for $400--not the point but it is a hobby not a career.

At my office the building is used as an art gallery of sorts. Local artists, all have purchase prices, they get swapped out a few times per year. Not many get bought but it does something to help the local artists. BUT the entire living wage thing is expected by many of them.

Our kids have some talent (as a hobby) so we have some decent items from them in recent years. Also a big fan of blowing up pictures we have taken.

As for motorcycles in the house. I tried but my wife's father (former flat-track racer) had a large collection, easy 50+ bikes--race and road, and of course many bikes in the house that were in various states of disassembly... so she put her foot down as a no hard on that one.

Getting a living wage for doing something you enjoy and self assess as world class is silly. Want to buy some of my cousin's macrame?

I don't believe in arts grants but do believe in teaching art appreciation (Plus music, food etc). If people are taught appreciation, the market will adjust and balance out. Unfortunately the entire situation is subjective as are the experts in the trade.