The Business and Production Line of Art

As part of my theory of Art here is my plan to make a kind of production line out of my works of art: Making a business of Art without prejudicing the spontaneity and art for art sake nature of the works.

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The Business and Production Line of Art (Paintings)

 

1. Getting the inspiration for the painting:  Saving and manipulating images being inspired having visual resources.  Making and recording in writing the stories and the various philosophical and “religious” issues that arise.  Noting subjective responses to those issues and any prompted memories that come up.  This is my way of beginning and continuing a picture.

 

2. Paint a piece of found cardboard white

 

3. Make a drawing on the dried white painted cardboard out of No More Gaps .  It can be completely “abstract” (having no discernible intellectual idea behind it) or it can be an comprehendible symbol such as a mathematical symbol, e.g.  the symbol for infinity or a number such as 8 (the chess board seems to be an inspiration for some artists and the infinity symbol is an 8 on its side).  Or it can be a representational drawing of some identifiable image or images.  There are a lot of crosses in my pictures.

 

4. Paint the piece of cardboard with other colours.  The raised background picture and what has been painted need not make a coherent story but often they do.

 

5. Write the “Certificate of Authenticity”

 

6. Photograph the painting.

 

7. Frame the painting.

 

8. The above order can be varied.

 

9. Write up an art work blog and “hang” the picture on the internet with some remarks.

 

10. Start Telemarketing to Galleries.  “I’ve got a rather remarkable body of work – would you like to see it?  May I send you an email with my details and a link to the website.”