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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Some are more difficult to let go than others; so I tend to price them accordingly.... The only painting I would never get shot of is my portrait of The Great Ralph, my first and indeed most splendid rat. See my blog A New Start for a view of him at his lovesome best... It is, of course, just possible that there wouldn't be a rush to buy it. But I can hardly believe this to be true.

Claire Bartlett

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Oh yes - portrait of my mother, paintings of departed dogs - too precious to part with.

Angela Kingham

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Simple answer...NO The anal-retentive nature of the artist says always keep those original artworks as one day they will be valuable...NO they are your evolutionary test-pieces. Today's output is good...but tomorrow's will always be better...your final [one-day] will be the pinnacle of your artistic career. So get rid of these elderly test-pieces via your favourite charity's art-auction once a year...no sentimentality...do demotivating artworks mocking you in your art studio...none of that creative time-wasting retouching/going over it [it will never improve it]...It also promotes you and your art. Move on...paint today's art and plan tomorrow's art. OR do you really want to live in your own art-museum? It one day will be a mill-stone for the executor of your estate....
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Ali, yes, that was Ralph on Robert's Reflections, my wightpaint blogspot, and you will also find him, in living colour, on my A New Start POL blog. But on the whole, I'm with Meltemi, and the others: cash is always a great inducement to me to part with a painting - and if after all these years I couldn't recreate more or less anything I'd done before, I'd have been wasting my time a bit; so nothing is truly lost if I really wanted to recreate it. But of course in practice I don't; something new, every time.....
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Hm. if it isn't a hobby - and in my case, it isn't - I'd sell paintings and prints; the latter with permission from the owner of the painting.

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One or two very personal memory paintings...no, I would never let them go.   All of my paintings are a bit like my babies I created them,so I do have a bit of a pang when they go. Though , the fact that someone wants to pay real money for them..softens the parting quite a lot, and what good taste these people have! 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Fill the gaps... paint more. The best way to avoid separation syndrome is to paint so many blessed pictures that you end up with a room full of them - that way, you can't wait to shift 'em.

Angela Kingham

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Has anyone tried/any experience of renting out their art as another income string?

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Has anyone tried/any experience of renting out their art as another income string?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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No - hadn't thought of it, and wouldn't begin to know how to price it.... Any ideas?

Angela Kingham

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Ali, it is your duty as an artist to share your art with your community for them to cherish it. They in turn show their respect for it by buying it at the going commercial rate and then cherish it for as long as they desire to. Remember you still own the copyright, but not the moral right, to that sold artwork. They cannot exploit it without your permission. And you must not exploit any images of it you that you have, for commercial purposes without their permission.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I tried to give my brother a painting he liked, and wanted to give as a present (ie, it wasn't a present to him, birthday, Christmas or the like). He wouldn't have it, bless him, and insisted that "you deserve some reward for your efforts". This was a slightly extreme example - but on the whole, while I'm happy to give paintings as presents I have no sense of guilt about selling to people I know; I just don't think you can afford that sort of emotional luxury and if you can, other artists can't. I very much agree with Mel. - don't cripple yourself with guilt; once you start selling, you owe it to yourself, and to what we might call the profession, for want of a better word, to approach it like a professional. So sell with a clear conscience!
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