This is my new ALL VIRTUAL gallery. I offer thousands of original works of art, all in my well-established and very dry and cool on-site storage buildings, made by Tuff Shed. They are tight and stay nice and are easily temperature and humidity controlled.
I have been playing around with some ideas how we artists might still be able to earn some sort of livelihood — keeps us off the breadline for the while, if we’re lucky.
Description: An original Limited Edition XVIII/XXIX copperplate drawing, male ballet dancers, by Pablo Picasso printed by the House Haefeli and Co., Graphic Arts at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). From the Golden Griffin Gallery, NYC. Raymond Haasen, master copperplate printer, hand-pressed the pulls. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies on Arches paper from 1 to 300 and 29 numbered copies on China paper I to XXIX. Size: mounted image 11⅜” x 15½” on thin, uncoated delicate paper of vegetable fiber called “China” Paper, as seen through window 9” x 13”, print enclosed in medium/heavy stock paper 19½” x 25½” — stunningly museum-framed at only $14,500.00 — COA included.
This rare and desirable Pablo Picasso linocut produced AFTER the original is an actual linoleum-cut print produced by Harry Abrams NYC in 1962. The originals were hand-signed by the artist and sold in an edition of 50, and then in 1962 Picasso and the Louise Leiris Gallery cooperated in the production of this AFTER suite in slightly reduced size. The printing was done in West Germany with a French edition published by Editions Cercle d’Art and this American Edition was published by Harry Abrams in New York. The prints are superior in quality on heavy art stock, and they are actual linocuts not reprints, or posters or offset lithographs or giclee computer print. This is the real thing, as close as you can get to the expensive original pencil-signed edition of 50 — the most expensive in that lot will run you about $2.4 million dollars, if you could even get hold of one — collectors give to big museums, the tax break is typically better than the sale price. This print is available at only $1,850.00 fabulously framed, comes with COA guaranteed authentic.
Sure, you can have a dress shop in a virtual gallery — there’s no limit to the size of the thing, and it’s just a matter of how much you and your customers can keep track of — you need to not confuse the client with too many choices. This dress is hand-signed and fits just about anyone. It sells for a mere $77.42 on redbubble, when redbubble can deliver.
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The thing is, you can’t order it, or indeed, anything else on redbubble, zazzle or cafe press at the moment — they will tell you that people can’t make it, pack it or ship it while the quarantine is still on, but that doesn’t mean you can’t shop.
So as a seller, you might be able to send something you already have on hand, but new items coming to you from your vendors out of China will be postponed into the far-flung future and the factories may remain closed for quite some time, until the Third Wave goes through Wuhan.
In the meantime, there’s no real guarantee that anything you send will actually ever leave the shipping dock.
There may be no movement of packages in any form, even food and necessities, for several weeks, months or even years, so don’t count on shipping to make your sales. Okay, so what can a poor struggling artist do to earn a buck in these hard times?
Obviously, you want to sell your art or crafts, right? But they have to be digital, or you’ll have to ship, and we don’t want to have to ship, do we???
(SOUND: People shouting “No!”)
So what kind of dress can we sell that you can download? Clearly, it would be a dress in Second Life — same as furniture and bric-a-brac. I have some great cloche hats in there for sale.
How about downloading one of my images that you can then print out for yourself in your own home? That way, there’s no transfer of objects from hand to hand, and no shipping, just you printing it out on your own home printer.
Um, you DO have enough ink cartridges to last you for a while, right?
And then I’m assuming you have a good supply of framing materials, great looking hand-carved gilded chop for the outer frame, some fillet for the interior, and of course some point-shooters once you have the piece in the frame.
Then it’s papering the back, putting in the hanging wire and that’s it, you’re done, and the piece is ready to hang, provided you have a hammer and nails handy. Oh, run out of nails, have you? Well, it’ll have to wait a while, then.
I’m going to recommend a few viewing ideas:
That’ll keep you occupied for a while, and it’s a very well-made series, filmed in France with a very talented cast — the heavies are the same people in different makeup & costume, although there are some additional cast members now & again throughout the series.
This radio series was funny as hell, but you were expected to bring an educated brain with you, and it is necessary to actually listen.
You know Don Adams from the funny spy TV series “Get Smart”, but did you know that he was a standup comedian long before the television show. This is the Don Adams I knew, and he was just as funny or funnier as a standup.
Certainly one of the three funniest of the Jack Benny shows, this features Spike Jones and is a wonderful mix of comedy and personal interplay.
Rodney Dangerfield is one of the funniest comedians on the planet, and his one-liners will eventually get you rolling.
Not particularly funny, but a good study of what it takes to be an impressionist when the people you’re imitating are total non-entities to begin with, even in the original, they’re a big nothing, and even as borderline as Jimmy Fallon’s impressions may be, they still earn him a hefty living. Can you do impressions? Why not put them up on youtube? It’s free.
Absolutely one-of-a-kind event, Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters on Johnny Carson show — there’s never been anything like them!
You will not believe it, but Hackett gets through the entire routine on LIVE TV and doesn’t slip up even once!
This one will definitely be a wonder to behold — try doing this routine yourself!
I added this last one just for the chemists in the audience. I’ll be posting some videos that I find interesting and/or fun in my blogs. I’m hoping it fills up the vacuum of your day with good cheer and laughter.
I want to remind you that we are expanding our food growing system to accommodate YOU and you need to help us get it upgraded real fast.
We need to build raised beds, get lighting and plastic covering for our three professional greenhouses and we need lots and lots of packing supplies and such.
If you want to receive some of our EMERGENCY RATIONS let me know, and we’ll see what we can do.
My plan is to at some point have enough growing space that we can handle up to 50 people the year around, which means lights, fans and heaters for the greenhouses, and that means donations.
We are well on the way toward being self-sufficient except for power — we can’t afford to go solar, and no home solar system can supply ALL the power needed, just most of it.
We will have honey, apples, walnuts, grapes and pears this year, if we’re still here to pick it. We currently have my snack foods in stock, and we’re still able to ship, I believe, although I wouldn’t count on that holding true for very long.
I’m really suspicious of Mnuchin, aren’t you?
Say healthy, stay outta trouble, stay at home. Do your part.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby