Hobo Jungle

[Tramp]

The gull is 12x16 inches. Each bird will have two colored versions, same size, mounted on a hardwood panel. I've finished the robin, cardinal, mockingbird, and am working on the blue jay.

Pete, the cold wind in the feathers was what I was going for. I put a lot of time and thought into the expression and the background, which is invented, let alone all those darn feathers.

Check here for more birds in the coming weeks. https://www.facebook.com/pages/LiveCell ... 96?sk=wall

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The gull is 12x16 inches. Each bird will have two colored versions, same size, mounted on a hardwood panel. I've finished the robin, cardinal, mockingbird, and am working on the blue jay.

Most excellent!

[Tramp]

Pete, as to prices, I'm trying to figure that out. What would you like to pay for one? Loaded question but help me out anyway.

[The Dirt]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh no you don't.

You did the work, you make the call.

Here's my deal- my rich sister has a beach home in Lewes, Delaware, she let us use, and so along with a thank-you letter, I mailed her a check to help defray the utilities, the 'wear and tear', and to help contribute toward their taxes. She promptly wrote back and said she ripped it up, that she wants her family to feel that they are welcome to use the place, and they won't take money from my BIL's side of the family either.

So I was thinking of alternate ways to express my thanks, and lo-and-behold....

It's always a tricky proposition to buy art for someone else's home, so I'm still thinking my way through this.

But you said there's going to be "colored versions"? I so need to hear more!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What would you like to pay for one?

Charge just enough to compensate for the pain of separation yet not enough so as to sever the connection to your work and thus keep the wound ever so slightly open.

It's a sliding scale, but it works.

[webenda]

This time of year, I cannot take a night walk in the jungle without coming back covered with spiders and their webs. I did not run into this one because rain had covered it with beads
of water and my flashlight lit up the drops like strings of tiny Christmas lights.



The mosquitoes that follow me where ever I go started running into the web. Spider went berserk running from mosquito to mosquito, wrapping each one up in web material for a snack
later tonight. That was unfortunate for photographs, because she ripped up the web in her frenzy. Increasing contrast brought out some interesting colors, so I am posting an image of it
anyway.

Image below only had a sharpness filter run on it. Color and contrast unchanged.


Wrapping up Dinner.

[rogruth]

Wayne,

Cool?Strange.Interesting.Beautiful.More?

[Tramp]

Rufus, though I've sold over half a million dollars worth of art, I have no idea what that means.

The reason I've been asking different people what they would like to pay for the birds is because I want to price them as low as possible, but within the ethics of selling art, it would be unfair of me to price them below were my art has sold previously. No collector wants to see the value of work he or she has invested in drop. Though I can't control the secondary market, I can set the initial price point fairly.

[webenda]

Tramp,

I read the following:

With the subprime crisis giving way to the debt crisis i.e. colossal debt ratios in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the UK, a destabilization of European monetary union and swelling public debt in the USA and then the downgrade of the USA by Standard & Poor’s this year, contemporary art (artists born after 1945) prices have plummeted 34% compared to 2006 prices. The only exception is the Chinese market, which has been on the rise since 2006. This growth has been driven by the emergence of new and very wealthy collectors and a growing number of art investment funds. As a result, the Asian art market has become the most high-end area of the entire globe. For example, 12.1% of works sold in Asia sell for between $100,000 and $1m, versus 2.2% for the rest of the world.

Selling your art in China would be good for America. Bring back some of that money we gave them for model trains.

I wonder, if properly mounted, my Wrapping Up Dinner might bring $1m in China.

Reference: http://web.artprice.com/AMI/AMI.aspx?id ... wODk=&l=en

[Tramp]

Wayne, you're correct, and all my artist friends are whining about the problem. My prices haven't changed in fifteen years, so I'm still a bargain without lowering anything. I usually do what I consider fair and decent regardless of trends, etc., which has many times been costly, but I ams what I ams.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, though I've sold over half a million dollars worth of art, I have no idea what that means.

The reason I've been asking different people what they would like to pay for the birds is because I want to price them as low as possible, but within the ethics of selling art, it would be unfair of me to price them below were my art has sold previously. No collector wants to see the value of work he or she has invested in drop. Though I can't control the secondary market, I can set the initial price point fairly.

Oh, merely that you insert a bit of yourself into every piece off art and that simple money can never fully compensate you for that that severing of that small fragment of yourself from the larger part of you. If you set the price adequately high enough to make that severance tolerable, then that is a fair price to you.

It is very much the scale that I use to sell off my scratchbuilt cars & structures.

I have no idea about market prices, past, present, future. I still append a value of true collectables based upon average wage per unit time index; if it's worth a week of time today, it will be worth that in the future.

[2railjon]

GUNS, FREIGHTS AND ALCOHOL - THE AMERICAN DREAM
By An Anonymous Ex-Tramp

Interesting read. A bit foul and sometimes bigoted, but interesting view of life on the road none the less.
http://www.cwporter.com/letter18.htm

[rogruth]

Interesting read,Jon.Thanks.

[2railjon]

Just an update...........Went up to Louisville, MS for my wifes family reunion. Here's a shot of my Farmall until I can get it back to the house for restoration. I hope it's not too far gone!!!!!



Then on to Joshua, TX to pick my Harley up. But first JonJon was all about his first trip in a sidecar with his Godmother!!!!!


My Harley finally back at the house!!!!!!!!!

[The Dirt]

Well, all-right!! New project for the tractor thread!!



I have a bazillion questions. For starters, does she still run, or has it been settin' a spell?