Hey, here’s the very latest off my workbench — the Otis Exhibition. Hope you like it. If you know anyone at or from Otis Art Institute, they will appreciate the many rare photos I have included in this edition, available from gateway books & tapes.
Well, running short, gotta go to breakfast and then to our zoom morning meeting.
Don’t forget, I still have a few empty classified folders left in my zazzle offerings, so take advantage of the 20% off sale — get them today, on zazzle!
Roll them dice, Casper. What I mean is, every night I make at least one virtual sculpture, and it’s as easy as when you were a kid stacking hardwood maple blocks, and what’s more, I have an art market that enables me to offer my pieces at $125 each in an edition of 22, and $32,500.00 or more for a one-of-a-kind original and, of course, they’re all signed, numbered and accompanied by a COA.
If you can grow your social media, you can easily start to turn big bucks for your artwork, regardless of what it is or what it looks like, because it’s not about your art — it’s about YOU, and about your relationship with all those who support you and approve of you, and that NEVER includes your parents, so let it go.
You can cash in bigtime on the virtual art market if you get in on the ground floor, and that’s exactly what you’re doing.
You have the Ultimate Weapon in the game — the Godd™ Engine & Editor, with which you can make anything, and maybe even SELL your art for incredible amounts of money — keep that $66,000,000.00 NFT in your sights as you put up your art pieces on eBay, etsy and others, like fine art america, artpal, amazon, storenvy, minted, society 6, casetify, zazzle, redbubble, artfinder, artplode, ugallery, saatchi art, shopify, artnet, artsy and even opensea and other NFT vending sites.
It’s easy to make a NFT from a Godd™ Orb. Just press f4 and look for the screenshots in your GODD directory, in the folder labeled “SNAPS”.
You can create a video of your sculpture using FRAPS and any video editor. I happen to use “Open Shot” which does everything I need it to do for my NFTs and my #shorts videos.
Anyhow, I always enjoyed playing with my hardwood blocks, of which there were more than 100, because my uncle was an amateur carpenter, which means he measured once and cut more than twice, so it left a lot of bits and pieces, and it was wartime — WWII — and everything, including wood blocks, was scarce.
Maybe you were a plastics blocks kid, or you never got a set of any kind of blocks, but you get the idea of playing with blocks. You put blocks on the floor or table, and you pile other blocks up on them, making shapes and stuff.
Castles are easy. When it comes to fine abstract art, things get a little more difficult and there are considerations that you throw in there, like you might not use a Raggedy Ann doll in the middle of your found-objects assemblage, but you’d be wrong to leave it out.
Assemblages were my specialty, although I did my share of portrait busts to make a buck. These virtual sculptures are assemblages of boxes stacked on each other, some slanted, some not, but it all comes down to one thing, even though it’s true that I create a bunch of virtual blocks within a 3D environment, and stack them up to make interesting shapes.
But basically, here I am, at the tender age of 80, and I’m just now getting around to doing exactly what I was doing when I came in — playing with blocks and looking for someone to change my diaper and give me a cookie.
That’s pretty much what we do in the Upper Atmospheres, too. We play with blocks, and that includes your universe, which is a single drop of water in the Real World.
Well, not actual water. And there are no cookies, not the kind you’d want to eat. As a matter of fact, eating is not encouraged in the Higher Spheres, but you already knew that. Continue reading
Virtual Sculpture is not digital art. Digital art is produced one way, and virtual sculpture is produced in an entirely different way.
Virtual sculpture in its purest form is an artistically stacked set of one or more boxes in a virtual environment.
It’s built, not painted, and the result is more than an image. It has BUMPABILITY, meaning that it’s got collision effects, and you can bump into it, thereby fulfilling Mata’s classic answer to a student’s question, “What is Real?”, to which she responded, “Real is whatever you bump into.” Continue reading
Many years ago, when I was about 19 years old, I decided on art as a professional career, and with the help of Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning and others, I did rather well, with a few sales in the six-figure numbers, although just barely squeaking by on that measure.
My average softball-sized bronze sculpture went for about $350 at first, in the sixties, then gradually topping off in the $22,000.00 range in the 1980s for my larger and more complex — and therefore more expensive at the foundry — bronze sculptures, usually with onyx bases. Continue reading
Now, about how, where, when and why you’re going to exercise and expand your spiritual talents and realizations through the combination of #Shorts, NFTs and social media.
I know, it sounds bloody unlikely that you can achieve any spiritual results in a chaotic scene like social media, and you’d be right, if we approached it straight-line, but we don’t.
I’ll give you my own examples of where to start: Continue reading
I’m lucky I have the photo of the crucifixion as it really took place, and you can own the original NFT I’ll mint for you for whatever donation you care to name, I’m easy.
I have many collectibles, but none are worth as much as their NFT would bring, even the collection of Donner letters and photos, and the photo of me standing in front of my Pollock painting.
I can take a selfie of myself standing in front of “Guernica” and make it into a NFT and it’s a work of art in itself. Go figure, but that’s where we are, at the moment. Continue reading
My serigraphs used to retail at $1800-$3000, but we haven’t marketed them for at least 20 years — what are today’s prices? No idea, but we’re going to find out.
I intend to dig out some of those serigraphs, produced in the days before computer generated “giclee” color printing. These are from pastel originals. They are each and every one completely hand-printed, each color laid down separately, through a carefully prepared silkscreen, until all colors are present on the print.
Technically, it is “a work on paper”, and is produced in a profoundly limited run, hence it is sometimes referred to as “a multiple original” or “an original multiple”, depending on what part of the country your gallery might be standing.
I’m offering them today at ridiculously low prices, because my market has yet to be re-established in the marketplace.
Hence and therefore, the serigraph “Me & My Money” is available FRAMED to retail at $850, which means that your wholesale cost will be $350, allowing you to “keystone double”, which is standard retail practice.
Keep in mind that this piece comes framed, and that means money. If you don’t want it framed, take off $50 and we’ll ship you the serigraph flat — I don’t roll prints if I can help it — of course, large paintings on canvas are quite another matter.
There are not many of any of my earlier serigraphs left — they sold surprisingly well at the time — so if you want one of these compelling and dramatic pieces, better say so right now. Please don’t contact me months from now and expect to get one of these serigraphs. Continue reading
You can have the greatest product or service in the world, something that everyone would love to have or do or have done, but if nobody knows about it, you might as well have nothing.
That’s what’s happening now.
Our gallery is scheduled for the Art Walk, which is where local artists sell MOST of their year’s work.
Problem is, the paperwork is still undone, long after the FINAL DUE DATE, because no one has taken JUST A LITTLE responsibility for putting that paperwork through, and repairing mistakes later.
Nobody did it.
Oh, sure, they send e-mails, text messages, insta-grams saying they just can’t handle it, and everyone reads them, but nobody takes action, because nobody wants to risk failure, thus guaranteeing failure.
So we’re currently MAYBE in the Art Walk. They’re holding the papers for us until we can get our shit together enough to tell them what we sell and who we are.
Christ, it never had to get this far, but it needs fixing — and fast — within 24 hours of now. Frankly, it should have been handled within hours of first receiving the application, where you track down every fact you need, right then and there, no delay, no prevarication, no dangling it out for someone else to resolve, because they’ll just pass it on like you did.
Abdicating Responsibility is not a good way to do business, nor is it a good way to behave in general. Nobody takes responsibility, nobody takes action, and nobody notifies anyone that there will be serious and costly consequences, and then shit-hits-fan and there’s shit all over the place. Continue reading
Now that you’ve joined the Ashram for $30 a month and gotten a place in the gallery — either a cubby at $100 per month or a booth for $200 a month or both — it’s time to look at the program.
You are now part of a team.
That team operates in the subtle plane, but manifests clearly and tangibly in the gallery as a group of artists and artisans.
The art varies widely, as does the crafting. Materials and methods are very much unique to each of the experienced artists of our Grass Valley Graphics Group, and that creates a lot of excitement in visitors to our space.
Because we specialize in miniature works of art, our walls are filled with lots of interesting things to see. People tend to stay longer in the gallery precisely because there are so many paintings, drawings, sketches, embossings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings and more, and the longer they linger the more likely they’ll shop, meaning you get the sale.
How the support boils down is that whenever we have some surplus, it can be applied to promotion and publicity, but keep in mind that money can’t buy you love, and you can quote me on that! Continue reading
Read it and weep — we’re going to wade through a bit of negative news first, but I assure you that there’s GOOD NEWS at the end of the trail — here is a list of the top 14 eBay searchwords for ART, listed in the order of their relative importance, most-popular searchword in the first place, least popular searchword in last place, thus:
