{"id":407,"date":"2007-01-14T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=407"},"modified":"2007-01-14T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:25:00","slug":"2007-01-14-chris-and-vicky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-01-14-chris-and-vicky\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-01-14 Chris and Vicky"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/357358684\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/357358684_0f34dd996a.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/357358684\/\">2007-01-14 Chris and Vicky<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/chrisoos\/\">Chris<\/a> came across my photostream some time ago, and asked me if I do commissions. At that point, I did them, but for free. So I said, &#8216;Sure! Email me some source pics, and I&#8217;ll see what I can do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So he emailed me some pics, and they weren&#8217;t really what I required. And he said he&#8217;d mail me some more. And I said I&#8217;d look at his photostream, and somehow it turned into a stalemate. <\/p>\n<p>Then I actually WENT to his photostream, and found several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chrisoos\/308641372\/\">dazzling<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chrisoos\/309324556\/\">pics<\/a> of Vicky. But not too many dazzling ones of him. And then I came across one showing them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chrisoos\/243853932\/\">having a picnic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a terrrrrrrible picture to work from, cos their faces and bodies are half-in, half-out of light. The trees are casting dappled shadows over them. So it&#8217;s reallllly tough to get any sort of detail out of it.<\/p>\n<p>So I used it as a basic placement reference, and used some of the other pics of them to estimate the details. I THINK I&#8217;ve captured Chris quite nicely. And I&#8217;ve got Vicky&#8217;s basic facial structure. But I&#8217;m not entirely certain she&#8217;ll be flattered by my depiction of her. (Vicky&#8230; I apologise in advance!!!)<\/p>\n<p>Hold thumbs with me! Heheheheehe! Cos I&#8217;m sending this to them tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Over the Christmas holidays, and in particular, while I was sick with stomach flu, I pondered this whole issue of payment for my artworks.<\/p>\n<p>As you possibly know, I&#8217;m a firm supporter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> movement. And almost all of my recent pics are online on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/\">my Flickr gallery<\/a> at very high resolution. Big enough for them to be printed out on A2 paper with NO loss of sharpness.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come up with.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone asks me to do them a portrait, I&#8217;ll happily do so. I&#8217;ll treat it as if it were a paying job. Which means I&#8217;ll crack it within a week of &#8216;being commissioned&#8217;. (I apologise for taking so long with this one, Chris and Vicky.)<\/p>\n<p>What the person will get for free is the high resolution image. They can then make prints of it, put it on t-shirts, mugs, bedroom ceilings, whatever. That&#8217;s their business.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s how I can possibly make a little income from doing the stuff I love&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will happily make A2 prints on acid-free art paper, using archival quality inks, and sign the print. This will be part of a limited edition. I&#8217;m not certain how many prints I&#8217;ll limit each edition to, but I&#8217;m thinking 50 prints on art paper, and that&#8217;s the end of the edition.<\/p>\n<p>The person who&#8217;ll do my printing is Dennis da Silva at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvertone.co.za\/\">Silvertone Fine Art Photography Printing<\/a>. HIs international artist clients include an acquaintance of mine, the extraordinary photographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerballen.com\/\">Roger Ballen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of pricing my  prints at around R1 500 per print plus shipping, in an edition limited to 50 art prints. That&#8217;s approximately US$215, GB\u00a3110, EURO170.<\/p>\n<p>How does that sound? Please leave comments, and let&#8217;s start a conversation on this. I&#8217;d love to know if this sounds realistic to you. Or if it&#8217;s complete lunacy. The market must speak to me!! Heheheheeh.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a> on my beloved Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, over many days, in different coffee shops all over Johannesburg.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-01-14 Chris and Vicky, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Chris came across my photostream some time ago, and asked me if I do commissions. At that point, I did them, but for free. So I said, &#8216;Sure! Email me some source &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-01-14-chris-and-vicky\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007-01-14 Chris and Vicky<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-6z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}