Susanne Engel-Schuster what a great idea just to leave it out for someone to take. They might cherish that painting for years to come and it’s a great way to spread the art !
Hello everyone, when my paintings start building up and taking space I usually will hold a Yard Art Sale to help get rid of them for a very cheap price. I do this to make room for other paintings and other abstract ideas I want to try and to learn more. But if the paintings do not sell at the yard sale I will them donate them to a Special needs School that is from Kindergarten to 12th grade. This school has a small shop that is for donations and the school uses it only for the staff and students only, it is not open to the public. They use this store for the credits each child receives for good behavior in the classroom. Then when the child feels like buying something from the store with the credits earn (fake money) they but what they want, while learning about money management. So since from my last Yard Art Sale I had on Black Friday, the leftovers will go to that school as soon as I get the chance to bring it this week.
Watercolor paintings I can use the back for more practice, usually there's a good part that can be cut out and I mount it on a blank greeting card, also cut some up for bookmarks plain or fancy just punch a hole in the top and add yarn or ribbon. They sell well and at least you recover your money for the paper and a bit more.😉
First sentence made me feel like I was at an intervention. I store my art after I post it on redbubble in your GoSee archival presentation and portfolio books, they work great and don't take up much room.
This is why I’m grateful of the modern age. I used to make physical artwork and have transitioned to purely digital forms of creativity, the latter of which is just stored nice and compactly on a hard drive.
Yes, I have that ticking clock... but it was my dad's who passed last year...can't throw it out the...window! But on a serious note, I overpaint the canvas or (didn't do this yet) cut it up and you can use the pieces in a new work as collage pieces.
I use watercolors on 140# watercolor paper. When the painting gets to the point that I no longer find value in keeping it, I will cut it up in strips about 1 inch by 6 or 7 inches. Then I doodle on both sides of the strips. Then I mark the strips with my initials and the year. When I have saved up enough of them to warrant a trip to the library, I take them down there for the library patrons. They are the perfect size to use as bookmarks, even for paperback novels.
@@vickiwilson5462 I glue them to strips of thick drawing paper,varnish them with Kamar Varnish and cover with a strip of packing tape or 3 coats of mod Podge hole punch at the top..add a tassle (I buy the tassles from Amazon )..I charge $5 each or 3 for $12
Sherrie White thank you! You just gave me a great idea for my art classes for middle school. It would make a great gift for them to give to their parents.
I tend to do even my practices and exercises with that in mind (not sketchbook pieces, obviously), I find re-using them more satisfying than just chugging them. Just used an old calligraphy practice as a background on a birthday card, I really digged the result. One canvas painting had decent pieces here and there, so I sewed only them on otherwise plain bag (one lady bought it straight off me, I very nearly refused, but ended up coming home with nice chunk of cash and all my stuff in a plastic bag). Theres many creative ways to use up rejects, but there is one dreaded exception.. if I have struggled with something for ages and reached a point of no return, then its burn/rip/scissor/vitamix time - whatever kills that evil demon spawn mongrel :)
Hello that is not a bad idea, I have a lot of acrylic abstract paintings that never sold and some of them I keep because they are my favorite. The others ones though I will cut them up and glue them on to a canvas to see how it will turn out. Thanks for the idea.
@@WRGREATVIBEZALLTHETIME Any acrylic medium like a gloss medium or acrylic gel medium will do fine. Even a PVA glue. A lot of people use a acrylic gel medium.
If it's a decent painting but maybe not market ready I donate to the homeless thrift shop. They don't sell for all that much but someone gets to enjoy your work and the homeless get help.
I still have my old art. Is just, when I finish a piece, I just forget about it. I see no point looking back to a old piece, it won't help me to improve my art and it would only teach me to be vain toward my drawings. So when I finish something I post it online. I read comments and engage in discussions, but I don't care much for my piece. It would be interesting to see criticism, but today nobody gives constructive criticism anymore because people are thin skinned nowadays.
I have a painting from college that I re-work once in a while. It's 20 years old, but it's fun to revisit it and add some new details or change some things based on my current experience, technique, style, etc. Other paintings that I don't want to keep, I paint over or do free art drops or giveaways.
Ha, I live in 100 square feet. About every other month I mail out everything with a note that it is not a “white elephant”, they can put it on their fridge for a week and then trash it if they want, or turn it into greeting card crafts, whatever they want.
I paint as hobby only mostly on paper in small art journals and single paintings no bigger than 8 inches square/ 20 x 20 cm or smaller sizes 4 x 4" etc.
When you roll a painting, it is better to roll paint side out: otherwise, if the rolled canvas gets squashed, the surface may crack because the paint has nowhere to go. If the painted surface is outover, the paint just stretches.
I have it on my I Pad. Banks, restaurant. Doctor office. Give Gift of my Art. Depending on my personal piece of Art. A few water color pictures.on papers. Be conscientious of negativity. Out of direct sun light. It effects it. Throw it away if it’s negative.
Ah..Mike not Jerry..tsk tsk...oils grow darker if kept in the dark...so they need light...watercolors, however, are more fugitive if left in bright light..
I'm agree with several things that are presented in this CZcams podcast and what most of things that this man is saying but, nowadays most of us are creating less paintings but more mixed media sculptures or mixed media hi-relief artworks (paintings), installation....😊🤔
Further more, many of our outworks are very good, but did not found buyers or collectors for several reasons. Indeed, I have many Artworks produced during the last ten years... and of course, current Artworks... But the thing that can add is when you are a current or contemporary visual artist the canvas is a limited media.... but the problem remain the same, you have very good Artworks cumulating in your studio like the wherehouse of a supermarket, or a gallery...🤔📽🎞
Where do you get that? I've sold original art to restaurants for the last forty years. Yes, Buster and Crabby's Smoke Shack will take any light-house/sea gull painting you have to go with their nets and buoys. But classy places will pay, like banks, hospitals, office buildings, etc.
I thought this was a comedy sketch at first. Really??? Twenty minutes about the 'problem' of excess artwork? Here: Toss, recycle, give, or file it away. There, done. Now you have twenty-five minutes of free time that was not wasted. What kind of work can you create with this newly found time for yourself? If you want to ramble, why don't you discuss actual problems that artists face: Inadequate/Expensive health care for themselves and their families. Tax deductions. Failing and non-existent retirement savings. Thieving gallery owners and crooked publishers. The quality of life that an artist's income most often provides. Add your own...
I agree, I saw how long it was as he spoke the 1st sentence and lost interest. The comments are loaded with great ideas like yours, so I tend to just scroll down here for 3 minutes of getting the gist of everything and moving on. And yes, videos on these things would be much appreciated! I agree with April you should make them, or at least conspire with a popular youtuber to cover the issues for you.
I believe Mike includes content that allows for a broad spectrum of different levels of experience. It might not be so easy for a beginner to “toss or give away” their work (even experienced artists might need other ideas). I appreciate how he does use humor to tackle struggles that many, many artists face. If his advice doesn’t resonate with you, that’s ok; I just don’t think it’s ok to be dismissive of his presentation, or of the needs of artists different than your own. Kindness rocks 🙂
M.J. Your list of topics bored the heck out of me. Mostly because artists are too paranoid to share ideas or "secrets" because they fear someone else will steal their ideas, OR bust them for their complaints. You want to end your career? Complain about a gallery owner to more than two people. No retirement savings? You were expecting that your art would give you a comfortable retirement? Many artists have to teach just to have a twice-annual holiday. The things you worry about pertain only to yourself, not vast groups of different personalities. Artists moaning about their quality of life? Now there's a bottle of wine for two miserable whiners. Mikey's right, just enjoy yourself, and learn to leave the chaff at the door.
Sometimes I overpaint old paintings and do something new with it, or I put old ones on the street and people take them.
I've done oil pastels over old acrylic paintings. I am loathe to throw out materials that can be recycled.
Susanne Engel-Schuster what a great idea just to leave it out for someone to take. They might cherish that painting for years to come and it’s a great way to spread the art !
Hello everyone, when my paintings start building up and taking space I usually will hold a Yard Art Sale to help get rid of them for a very cheap price. I do this to make room for other paintings and other abstract ideas I want to try and to learn more. But if the paintings do not sell at the yard sale I will them donate them to a Special needs School that is from Kindergarten to 12th grade. This school has a small shop that is for donations and the school uses it only for the staff and students only, it is not open to the public. They use this store for the credits each child receives for good behavior in the classroom. Then when the child feels like buying something from the store with the credits earn (fake money) they but what they want, while learning about money management. So since from my last Yard Art Sale I had on Black Friday, the leftovers will go to that school as soon as I get the chance to bring it this week.
Im a hobbiest only do it for fun its inspiring and satisfying to play with paints❤️ therapy for depression
Inky's Art I do it for depression as well.
Watercolor paintings I can use the back for more practice, usually there's a good part that can be cut out and I mount it on a blank greeting card, also cut some up for bookmarks plain or fancy just punch a hole in the top and add yarn or ribbon. They sell well and at least you recover your money for the paper and a bit more.😉
So do I...❤️❤️
@@tootstomhartsky7745 😉
First sentence made me feel like I was at an intervention. I store my art after I post it on redbubble in your GoSee archival presentation and portfolio books, they work great and don't take up much room.
This is why I’m grateful of the modern age. I used to make physical artwork and have transitioned to purely digital forms of creativity, the latter of which is just stored nice and compactly on a hard drive.
Yes, I have that ticking clock... but it was my dad's who passed last year...can't throw it out the...window! But on a serious note, I overpaint the canvas or (didn't do this yet) cut it up and you can use the pieces in a new work as collage pieces.
I use watercolors on 140# watercolor paper. When the painting gets to the point that I no longer find value in keeping it, I will cut it up in strips about 1 inch by 6 or 7 inches. Then I doodle on both sides of the strips. Then I mark the strips with my initials and the year. When I have saved up enough of them to warrant a trip to the library, I take them down there for the library patrons. They are the perfect size to use as bookmarks, even for paperback novels.
That's amazing.
I sell my art bookmarks...they sell like crazy
Sherrie White how much do you charge?
@@vickiwilson5462 I glue them to strips of thick drawing paper,varnish them with Kamar Varnish and cover with a strip of packing tape or 3 coats of mod Podge hole punch at the top..add a tassle (I buy the tassles from Amazon )..I charge $5 each or 3 for $12
Sherrie White thank you! You just gave me a great idea for my art classes for middle school. It would make a great gift for them to give to their parents.
IF you roll an oil painting on canvas, you should roll with the image OUT not in! It makes is less likely to have any cracking
Take all the old canvas paintings you have, cut them all up into random pieces and make some kind of montage using acrylic glue.
I tend to do even my practices and exercises with that in mind (not sketchbook pieces, obviously), I find re-using them more satisfying than just chugging them. Just used an old calligraphy practice as a background on a birthday card, I really digged the result. One canvas painting had decent pieces here and there, so I sewed only them on otherwise plain bag (one lady bought it straight off me, I very nearly refused, but ended up coming home with nice chunk of cash and all my stuff in a plastic bag). Theres many creative ways to use up rejects, but there is one dreaded exception.. if I have struggled with something for ages and reached a point of no return, then its burn/rip/scissor/vitamix time - whatever kills that evil demon spawn mongrel :)
Hello that is not a bad idea, I have a lot of acrylic abstract paintings that never sold and some of them I keep because they are my favorite. The others ones though I will cut them up and glue them on to a canvas to see how it will turn out. Thanks for the idea.
Spotted Bullet where can I get acrylic glue from
@@WRGREATVIBEZALLTHETIME Any acrylic medium like a gloss medium or acrylic gel medium will do fine. Even a PVA glue. A lot of people use a acrylic gel medium.
Spotted Bullet Thank you
When I stay in Hotels I put one up in my room and leave it there
ahhhhh ha ha ha...what a great idea...ha ha ha
All good information thanks
If it's a decent painting but maybe not market ready I donate to the homeless thrift shop. They don't sell for all that much but someone gets to enjoy your work and the homeless get help.
Really hideous watercolors of mine made great kindling to the horror of my family.🤣🤣
You are fun and have the cutest personality.
You’re so helpful and likeable!
I love listening to your art thoughts you make me laugh so hard!!
I do enjoy the other channel too! Keep it going! and Have a Grand Day!
I still have my old art. Is just, when I finish a piece, I just forget about it. I see no point looking back to a old piece, it won't help me to improve my art and it would only teach me to be vain toward my drawings. So when I finish something I post it online. I read comments and engage in discussions, but I don't care much for my piece. It would be interesting to see criticism, but today nobody gives constructive criticism anymore because people are thin skinned nowadays.
Thanks for sharing!
I like the painting to your left. Who did it?
I have a painting from college that I re-work once in a while. It's 20 years old, but it's fun to revisit it and add some new details or change some things based on my current experience, technique, style, etc.
Other paintings that I don't want to keep, I paint over or do free art drops or giveaways.
But..lots of thanks for the ‘permission’ to throw away the work which is weighing me down!!❣️
Ha, I live in 100 square feet. About every other month I mail out everything with a note that it is not a “white elephant”, they can put it on their fridge for a week and then trash it if they want, or turn it into greeting card crafts, whatever they want.
When will Jerry's artarama come to the UK? I hear so much about you guys and can't get anything from you 😪😪😪
I paint as hobby only mostly on paper in small art journals and single paintings no bigger than 8 inches square/ 20 x 20 cm or smaller sizes 4 x 4" etc.
When you roll a painting, it is better to roll paint side out: otherwise, if the rolled canvas gets squashed, the surface may crack because the paint has nowhere to go. If the painted surface is outover, the paint just stretches.
I have it on my I Pad. Banks, restaurant. Doctor office. Give Gift of my Art. Depending on my personal piece of Art. A few water color pictures.on papers. Be conscientious of negativity. Out of direct sun light. It effects it. Throw it away if it’s negative.
Ah..Mike not Jerry..tsk tsk...oils grow darker if kept in the dark...so they need light...watercolors, however, are more fugitive if left in bright light..
Lots of useful information. Thanks Mike...not Jerry.
Why roll it up??
If you are reading this god bless you and your family hope you are successful in your life❤
*Small artist here* any help appreciated😊
Anshmit Drawing Academy just followed you! Love to find new art channels. I have one also if you want to check me out💕
I'm agree with several things that are presented in this CZcams podcast and what most of things that this man is saying but, nowadays most of us are creating less paintings but more mixed media sculptures or mixed media hi-relief artworks (paintings), installation....😊🤔
Further more, many of our outworks are very good, but did not found buyers or collectors for several reasons. Indeed, I have many Artworks produced during the last ten years... and of course, current Artworks... But the thing that can add is when you are a current or contemporary visual artist the canvas is a limited media.... but the problem remain the same, you have very good Artworks cumulating in your studio like the wherehouse of a supermarket, or a gallery...🤔📽🎞
Restaurants do not pay usually money for artworks - they like to show the artworks for free...
Where do you get that? I've sold original art to restaurants for the last forty years. Yes, Buster and Crabby's Smoke Shack will take any light-house/sea gull painting you have to go with their nets and buoys. But classy places will pay, like banks, hospitals, office buildings, etc.
@@lucygray6162 I Live in Germany...Restaurants are poor here and can´t afford artworks.
I was totally not expecting the egg laying comment, lol
Or I am gonna Do mixed - media
Babbling...yawning Big Time!!
Laughs in digital art
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I thought this was a comedy sketch at first. Really??? Twenty minutes about the 'problem' of excess artwork?
Here: Toss, recycle, give, or file it away. There, done.
Now you have twenty-five minutes of free time that was not wasted. What kind of work can you create with this newly found time for yourself?
If you want to ramble, why don't you discuss actual problems that artists face:
Inadequate/Expensive health care for themselves and their families.
Tax deductions.
Failing and non-existent retirement savings.
Thieving gallery owners and crooked publishers.
The quality of life that an artist's income most often provides.
Add your own...
I agree, I saw how long it was as he spoke the 1st sentence and lost interest. The comments are loaded with great ideas like yours, so I tend to just scroll down here for 3 minutes of getting the gist of everything and moving on. And yes, videos on these things would be much appreciated! I agree with April you should make them, or at least conspire with a popular youtuber to cover the issues for you.
I believe Mike includes content that allows for a broad spectrum of different levels of experience. It might not be so easy for a beginner to “toss or give away” their work (even experienced artists might need other ideas). I appreciate how he does use humor to tackle struggles that many, many artists face. If his advice doesn’t resonate with you, that’s ok; I just don’t think it’s ok to be dismissive of his presentation, or of the needs of artists different than your own. Kindness rocks 🙂
M.J. Your list of topics bored the heck out of me. Mostly because artists are too paranoid to share ideas or "secrets" because they fear someone else will steal their ideas, OR bust them for their complaints. You want to end your career? Complain about a gallery owner to more than two people. No retirement savings? You were expecting that your art would give you a comfortable retirement? Many artists have to teach just to have a twice-annual holiday. The things you worry about pertain only to yourself, not vast groups of different personalities. Artists moaning about their quality of life? Now there's a bottle of wine for two miserable whiners.
Mikey's right, just enjoy yourself, and learn to leave the chaff at the door.
he keeps winking. it's disturbing.
Only to trolls.
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