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Linda Wilson

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Should you commission a work portraying your ideas, from an artist, then you need to come to a legal agreement with him/her. The agreement should specify who retains the copyright and how the profits from the sale/sales of the work should be distributed. But this agreement is an individual thing, depending on the artist's and your own expectations and perceptions of the value of each individual's contribution. Damien Hirst employs artists to paint his works, so why shouldn't you?

Ant Holder

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I have been watching, listening.... I am out.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I don't think most of us here were ever in, to be quite honest... What you want is an art student. Artists who are good enough, lucky enough, professional enough to be selling don't need anyone else's ideas. I'm not at all sure that art students should be in need of them either, but they might respond to an unusual or interesting idea, if they had nothing to lose by it and perhaps something to gain. I would have thought that representing someone else's ideas would be to suck much of the point out of it for the rest of us, but if you are going to try getting further with this, firm up your prospectus a bit more - do a bit of work on a basic business plan, with expected marketing strategies, cost and income projections, time-scales. At the moment, this is something you'd be fortunate if an amateur or hopefully emerging painter might take a look at if nothing else were going on for them; if you were hoping for any professional response, you'd need to put it in terms with which professionals can actually deal. This might be a bit of fun if you had endless time on your hands, but looking back at those who have responded to you, we all manage our time, such as it is, quite carefully and we're probably mostly past the age where we'd take something on that was essentially someone else's project and be willing to devote a lot of effort to it. Young, keen, and vibrant, that's what you want! And that's not necessarily a dead-accurate description of most of us here.
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Jim Morris

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Drawing and painting lessons are the answer, then you can paint whatever ideas you like and sell them as original. Simple..:rolleyes:

Rebecca Chapman

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<div>I don't have much more to add on to what the others have said here other than to reiterate that most artists are such because of their own creative urges, most will have a specific style or 'voice', and their style won't necessarily fit with your ideas..... BUT.... I wonder if you might be able to realise ideas on your own using some sort of digital media. That way you can hold true to your own concepts, and it will cross over with what you already do in a techy way. How about considering creating something true to yourself using photography and basic art techniques, an amalgamation. Just a thought. Also, don't be afraid to play about with art techniques, I don't always 'draw' well either, but that doesn't always translate to being a poor artist. </div>
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