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I make my own frames Margaret and frame them. When I get fed up with looking at them, I give them to charity shops and frame some new ones. The trouble is, I am going to have to be a bit more selective with framing as I now have a backlog of around 20 to frame and if I did all those it would take precious time away from my painting! So I will put ones I do not want to frame away in a drawer.
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The sketch book is the artists photo album - too precious to give away or destroy.
As for old unsold paintings, they go into a pile (watercolours that is) and I use the reverse for practice, demonstrations etc. If they then return to the pile they are destroyed after a while unless I have a particular attachment to them. What I never do is give them away to charity etc - hope I'm not sounding pompous but to me my work has a value which I don't wish to compromise.
On the question of charity (in case you think I'm a bit mean) I do contribute in other ways. For example on Wednesday I'm running a workshop for the less privileged - wish me luck !!
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Most of my unsold oil paintings end up being re primed and the board/canvas used again, after all I am from Yorkshire and even MDF has to be paid for. Unframed and unsold watercolours go in a folder to be brought out infrequently to try and convince me my watercolours aren't as bad as I think they are.
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I frame mine and shove 'em on the walls - it helps to disguise the fact that this place hasn't been decorated in around 30 years. And I sell a few - not as many as I once did; partly because the market has dried up, partly because I've stopped trying at the moment - I keep meaning to launch a marketing drive, but I've always hated everything to do with that; what I want now is a gallery to take me on and do all the hard work.
The residue are propped against walls or stacked in places where I'm most likely to trip over them; thank Heaven for watercolours, because they're stored flat in a drawer: I've never yet had one framed myself, I sold them unframed (or more often didn't) so probably got too little money for them, but there we are. My sketch books are now too numerous to be put in a cupboard and can be found lurking all over the place: I did think of digitizing them, but after contemplating the sheer scale of that task, I rapidly gave up on it.
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It's fascinating to hear what others are doing. Robert I laughed out loud at your comment about decorating and Michael, you are so right about these games on the other side of the world, I'm sick of them already. I bought a new pair of Bluetooth headphones yesterday (or rather hubby bought them for me) and it was bliss last night to listen to some old 60s music (I was there in the sixties - they say if you remember the sixties, you weren't there but I was!) and I felt like a teenager again - except for the aches in my back and everywhere else.... We do have some clever technology today, no wires dangling and getting caught in glasses etc.
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I hang all mine on the bedroom wall and some around the house and some go into the storage, I change them every so often. Alternatively, I take some of my drawings, get them framed and ask around cafes to see if they will hang them on the wall, give them the option of buying it themselves or selling it for me with a 30% commission.
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The problem of piles of stored, unsold work is very real, and I don't think there will ever be a solution to it, you just have to 'do your own thing' about it. I am formulating my own ideas...
You may throw up your hands in horror at this, but I am considering having a "Bonfire of the Vanities." To explain...I have so many old paintings, done years ago, which are simply taking up space and that is all they are doing.
My idea is to hold a little celebration with only myself present, pile the work into my garden incinerator, ignite it, warm myself at the resulting inferno and give thanks for all the joy I have had in creating it and having been blessed enough to have been given the talents to do so. My work deserves a more appreciative send off than being dumped in some land fill site, which is what I suspect will happen when I am no longer here. The nutrients from the ashes produced will go to feed the flower areas in my garden, and I shall feel that my hours of work have not been wasted, simply re-cycled!
I am referring to the work which has been lying in drawers, folders, boxes etc., for so many long years, work from which I learnt and work from which I do not feel I learned anything, but had the fun of doing and the satisfaction at the time. They now really are extinct, and It would be more positive for me to think of their ashes, full of nutrients, going back to the earth from which the paper originally came.
I am also perfectly happy with the idea of picking out the best ones , mounting them and donating them to a charity, offering them in a local shop, or for hospital funds for whatever someone is happy to pay for them. (Who knows, at some Antiques Roadshow of the future...say 1000 years...they may fetch millions!!!...in which case I shall definitely be back to do a haunting!)
Bear in mind, I did say I was "Considering" doing this. Time alone will tell whether I actually carry it out. But it would seem to be one solution, or perhaps a few. I would of course be accompanied at the bonfire by a bottle of the best vintage red!!
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Ha! Back from hols ;-)
Nice discussion here :-). I donate many of mine to charity auctions (I am a big animal welfare supporter), those are mostly featuring animals, dogs, horses and donkeys are faves amongst peeps and I paint them because I have good time trying different techniques on them. Anything un-animals goes to friends, all miniatures I make are custom (again charity ;-) ).
I do not keep any sketches except those of my dogs. The nice ones of animals in movement I again donate to charity auctions and mount them for the winner according to what they want (I do have paper for mounts in some 40+ colours LOL), what I sketch of friend´s dogs, I give to them. The rest- into rubbish they go :-D. I keep inks which I made using my sketches in regular office boxes ;-).
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