Thank you this post means a lot to me. I’m returning to school as an older student and I even thought I had a knack for art when I was young it was discouraged by my parents. I was always told artists are poor losers and to not pursue. I’m probably going to keep painting. This moment just spoke to me as something I needed to record in a significant way
I’ve worked with art dealers in my youth, and many artists through the years, including those who made it into museums both here and in the states.
You’re on that level, and if I were showing this in a gallery as part of your show, I’d likely try to price it at $10k as a unknown artist (provided your other work in the show was on this level), but my guess is that with a good agent you could be looking at far upwards of that for canvases of similar quality as your career progresses and your social media presence grows.
I bring up the agent again as every successful artist I know has representation. I would network with the other students in your class about who’s good in your local area. Your teacher probably has good connections as well.
You really do have a unique talent. If you’re looking for further inspiration, the one artist that I forgot to mention - check out Caravaggio’s work - your use of texture on the face is very similar to his, and I think you’d dig the story of his personal life - it’s a wild ride. He was essentially the Ozzy Osbourne of renaissance painters.
For instance, the severed head in his David and Goliath bears his face:
In fact, he loved painting his own beheading - it appears in several other works as well.
And I just gotta post the Incredulity of Saint Thomas because for whatever reason I just find this one hilarious:
Thank you this post means a lot to me. I’m returning to school as an older student and I even thought I had a knack for art when I was young it was discouraged by my parents. I was always told artists are poor losers and to not pursue. I’m probably going to keep painting. This moment just spoke to me as something I needed to record in a significant way
I’ve worked with art dealers in my youth, and many artists through the years, including those who made it into museums both here and in the states.
You’re on that level, and if I were showing this in a gallery as part of your show, I’d likely try to price it at $10k as a unknown artist (provided your other work in the show was on this level), but my guess is that with a good agent you could be looking at far upwards of that for canvases of similar quality as your career progresses and your social media presence grows.
I bring up the agent again as every successful artist I know has representation. I would network with the other students in your class about who’s good in your local area. Your teacher probably has good connections as well.
You really do have a unique talent. If you’re looking for further inspiration, the one artist that I forgot to mention - check out Caravaggio’s work - your use of texture on the face is very similar to his, and I think you’d dig the story of his personal life - it’s a wild ride. He was essentially the Ozzy Osbourne of renaissance painters.
For instance, the severed head in his David and Goliath bears his face:
In fact, he loved painting his own beheading - it appears in several other works as well.
And I just gotta post the Incredulity of Saint Thomas because for whatever reason I just find this one hilarious: