I just come across this web site www.printfineart.co.uk , it looks great site so I bought one of those oil paintings for myself to enjoy at £400. It looks lThis will arrive soon and I really look foward to it. I have not bought any reproductions before but I guess I cannot afford >US$15,000 for a painting as yet. But at £400 which is what I spend on some fashion is really great value for money. Buying in UK is sure to be safer than buying from China (not to mention those eBAY stuff). I have a poll here as I don't appear to come across people discussing art and paintings, with Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese it is always about food, music and cinema. Orientals seems to spend money on restaurants all the time! How about a feast for the eye!!-chef
nice idea 2 buy as a pressie for a friend gettin married...also 2 hang on me wall though, i think even i can reproduce it meself if i had the right materials
I wouldn't by a "reproduction" for 400 pounds... I hunt for the lesser known or emerging artists when I buy paintings... And seriously, 400 pounds is quite a rip off, you can get extremely high quality replicas at that price... Not to mention Chinese paintings are generally less expensive (relatively speaking)
do it yourself For God sake, if you do everything yourself there would not be any business on this planet! Just imagine cooking for yourself all the time, there would not be any restaurants. However once you start to do it yourself one would discover the value of having things done for you. I swapped back pain with employing a gardener! I go to restaurants sometimes so that I can enjoy food cooked for me.-whistle Actually I encourage you to take up painting, success of a nation manifests itself by adding cultural value, painting and dance being two such great cultural values. A society that makes up mostly of peasants and low income famiies tends to spend greater proportion of income on food or effort in finding food, a prosperous society tends to spend more income on non food items and very wealthy society tends to spend money on the arts. By the way, it wasn't £400, it was £556 without a frame!
Interesting thought, maybe you will pursue a career in medicine, law, automechanics, home renovation/construction, finance/accountant so that you can do everything yourself? -whistle And I can safely tell you that the art classes one has to take to paint a decent looking painting, just decent looking, nothing fancy like a replica, cost much more than 400 pounds. Not to mention life is short...
Hey , Hiake, you are right, a piece of good canvas is already US$20 plus, then a set of best quality oils that would not fade is at least US$50 and god knows how many sets that you need! Then there is the sable brushes, the best quality ones costs at least US$20 for one! On and on... and if you bin one then all the money is done the drain.. well not really, practice makes perfect, the more that you do the better you should get. I think it is cool to paint.Actually, as a matter of fact, we paid quite a number of US$30 lessons for personal tuition of chinese brush paintings already.
LOL, I still cry over my lost brushes which costed nearly $50CDN each... And I can tell you, the biggest investment in painting is time, you need LOADS of practice (and could still fail miserably, like me) which can be depressing... -unsure 400 pounds, on that count, isn't a lot to pay to cover my wounded pride, I'd rather dish out the cash than to face the depressing fact of me = cannot paint
