ZX Spectrum style acrylic paintings
If you were to buy an original hand painted painting which is a portrait of yourself or a friend or a loved one, how much would you pay?
Here's an example.
Here's the 2 illustrations I did for Edge last year :
Now, that's the style..but painted onto canvas using acrylics.
And here's an actual finished example completed last week :
Obviously, I've taken a bit of artistic license with a couple of the colours (the dull yellow, for example).
This image was 192x192 pixels in size and was painted on nine 8"x8" canvases making it approx 24"x24" in size. Each pixel is 3mmx3mm in size.
So, if you commissioned this to be painted, what would you pay?
Thanks.
Here's an example.
Here's the 2 illustrations I did for Edge last year :
Now, that's the style..but painted onto canvas using acrylics.
And here's an actual finished example completed last week :
Obviously, I've taken a bit of artistic license with a couple of the colours (the dull yellow, for example).
This image was 192x192 pixels in size and was painted on nine 8"x8" canvases making it approx 24"x24" in size. Each pixel is 3mmx3mm in size.
So, if you commissioned this to be painted, what would you pay?
Thanks.
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erm, dunno, i painted some canvasses the other week and was flogging them at 20 quid each. (neither sold)
i worked it out on material cost and time i spent on them. i guess what ever your happy to be paid.
but they are very good non the less.
i think you would be able to hawk them to non speccy fans as they do look contemporary.
how about you do some famous people as an example. like famous people from the 80's?
?20, eh? Not even close to the price I have in my head, particularly for the painting up there.
Pricing will include cost of materials, time on painting and maybe some cost for courier to deliver.
Bear in mind that it is high quality canvases and high quality acrylics, too. It's all about quality, man.
So, for the above painting, the 9 canvases came to approx ?45 and the acrylic paints for the colours used in the painting - black, white, 2 shaded of yellow, magenta and cyan came to ?70..obviously, not all the paint will be used.
Then there was the effort into creating the style digitally, then the 5 weeks painting.....as you can see, ?20 is not going to be an option (and never was in my head...;))
And I wouldn't be painting them and trying to sell them, I'd be commissioned to do them, therefore they've come to me to get it done.
i did both of mine in one evening. :p
Post pics please!
im not hijacking this thread, i will do some more and post them another time. ;)
First time for everything I suppose...
I would charge a fee based on the time it takes to produce such a piece, and go for an hourly rate that's not less than 40 pounds. And add the material costs of course. In that way you can always justify the price you ask.
OK, thanks for that ... I prefer oils because I can take my sweet time to paint, instead of doing a hurried job with acrylics ... they always seem to dry out on me INSTANTLY!
The ONLY drawback (in my humblest of opinions) with oils is the terrible smell.
You can get the stuff to keep acrylics softer for longer.
I use acrylics because of it's thickness and, when it's dry, it's pretty much indestructible.
Maybe I just had a terrible "first-time-user" experience ... and I do recall it was a low-end brand of acrylics.
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Agreed, I like to get a lot of physical/tangible "depth" when I paint ... I plop the layers on heavy-thick like ... just never got used to acrylics.
( and that's where patience comes into play because I more often than not wait for the layers to thicken/dry well, before I get the next layer on ... so yes ... I usually take [strike]days or[/strike] months to paint something)
On the Spectrum so stunning graphics. Why did not you use it?
For example:
Those pics are great, and would probably take a LONG while to paint the way redbaloon is doing it. Aside from that, they're the works of others, so it might rub ones conscience the wrong away around if one were to make money off of others.
If it's in oils though, well, stick another 200 quid on!