Thanks SDR...!
No it's 40 feet. I took the pictures from across the street...:) No. I tried to add change it to inches, but it keeps showing it at 40', instead of 40".
I'm not sure of the finish. It has a very heavy gloss over the paint, and is extremely thick. It's laid down on a piece of plywood. The sides are painted too, which makes it look nice from the side.
Carpet schrooms and now this?
Well it certainly is round. I think that is the best thing this painting has going for it.
This painting reminds me of the typical late 1990s Palm Springs thrift shop find.
Everything militantly beige.
It probably came from an all-beige interior and was created to match all of the other beige dreck. It succeeded I'm sure.
It's just a flat out weak painting. The texture gives it some interest I guess, but thats about it.
And who invented the "one name" thing for bad painters anyway? That is THE one sure way to tell when an artist is really bad-- when they only have one name.) Like "BLAZIN". Or "ANDRE"...
Groovydude, you seem to have an awareness of a wide range of stuff, and have probably seen a lot of decent art by now. Surely you cant be serious! Maybe a painting class would help sharpen your eye up a bit.
How can you say starline's chandelier looked like vomit, but then trot THIS plate of gooey goodness out?
Im just kidding around. I just have to explain WHY I don't like it, thats all.
It's all good
EH. I know this website. It's a love/hate thing here. I'm used to it. When we love it we say cool. When we hate it, we tear it apart in length. For the record, I never said Starline's fixture looked like vomit. I said the whole picture did. And the chairs could run away on their own, like in a droopy cartoon...lol. It was light hearted though, and not directed to Starline personally.
Those two pieces are 1% of the stuff I'm sitting on. I do love to learn, so I would never turn down classes. But even without em, I've got the eye for the unusual. And unusual will sell all day long. I have no official training. I'm just self taught.
Here's a small glimpse into what I bring back, and I only get to buy 20% of the time. The other 80% is spent going through all the steps to research, restore, sell, and ship across the whole world. I don't show this to everyone, but I'd like everyone to see what I see, since I'm bringing this way out there shit from my world to your world. I'm not gonna flood you out, but this is one room of stuff. About 20%-30% of my current inventory. There's almost something for everybody. In my files I have over 600 folders of sold items. Hopefully everyone likes my snappies..:)
Thanks Spanky..!!
That's just a small part. I'm just scratching the surface on buying, because I get so tied up in all the rest. That's why I was thinking about using a website like partnerup or something to try and get into a business with someone so I could buy all day for our company, and they run it. If I could just be an all day buyer that hit every estate sale, garage sale, thrift store, flea market, and auction, and Mark financed me, we could build a company, and I could make us millions of dollars, and then re-design his whole house for free..:) Ahh... That would be the life.
groovydude
thanks for the pics of your trove. So I understand a little better now that you often venture into the world of novelty and pop culture and, well, the simply strange. I can almost smell the musty "there-ness" of all that STUFF!
And you are quite right about it selling. Find the right buyer and you're home free.
I guess the context of this board might work against you sometimes. An object gets scrutinized indeed. And it IS a design forum after all, so the standard is fairly high (as it should be).
So it is ASSUMED that we should have some healthy arguments about design and art, in the same spirit as a critique in any good art school.
I knew it was okay with you if I went on a rant. Thanks for that. I know that my rant is the very least of your worries. But I am always willing to talk about art, as it is my primary turf.
I look at it as an attempt at a PAINTING first.
And as a cool novel thing second. It has to hold up as a painting if it is gonna pose as one. It may be wild and crazy enough for a lay person to enjoy solely for its "wild" gooey paint. But I've seen enough goo that it has to go beyond the novelty of the goo to convince me. Call me jaded. There are standards within ANY approach.
Its not a matter of abstraction either. I love a good abstract painting or non referential piece. I have no ax to grind about representational vs non-representalional art. Good painting is simply good painting.
(I tried to restrain myself from posting for a short time, but that thing just kept gnawing at me and finally I just had to post! LOL.)
My main issue with the painting is that it is neither here nor there in terms of clarity of intent.
A painting is supposed to hang together... on some level. So that your nervous system can kind of "sort it out". It is sort of in-between unified "field painting" and trying to poke holes in the pictorial space. (There are paintings that do that in between thing quite well. In the end, it just turns into a big SWATCH of stuff.
Thank you for allowing me to be honest, I do appreciate your openness to contrary viewpoints. And yes it is just my opinion. Im sure there are many on the board that love the painting, and think I have no taste.
That's why I got
the gas mask..lol. No. Everything is perfect, and I'm very detailed in getting everything cleaned, and fully restored to as perfect as possible. I have a lot of common sense, and I'm a restoration specialist. I'm just very cramped for space right now, and it doesn't look very well organized. But my photos are perfect. I have Smith Victor lighting, backdrops, and a 16mp Sony camera to take photos.
My delivery on my site compliments all my photos, and I get top dollar, and usually the highest, or near it with anything I sell. And I'm not just talking the talk. I've saved every ebay sale since I started, and pictures of every item I've ever sold. That is why I'm at the point where I can take on a business partner, and could become one of the most talented buyers the nation has ever seen. I've got the eye, and I can make money anywhere with it.
I have 717 feedback right now, with 100% positive since 2003, when I started. I make hundred, and thousand dollar sales consistently. I primarily sell to Florida, California, New York, Las Vegas, and UK. But other places as well. Even when sales are down, because the weirdness, and diversity of my finds, I still do very well, when others aren't. Here's a 5 ft. tall wooden pink flamingo sculpture from the 60's that I fully restored, and just sold to a lady in Florida. It incidentally came from Florida, and now is back there.
I'm working on an old 1920's stove right now. I've got about 100 hours in it. That I missed out on buying, researching, listing, etc. Even if I do get ahead, I can't get more than 40 or 50 things listed, before so much stuff starts to sell, that I'm set back 2 weeks in boxing, and shipping. It just compounds to the point where I can't ever get up there with 300 or 400 listings. There's just no way. I have to stay at 30 or 40 just to manage it all. I can make around $60,000 to $80,000 a year on that limited supply, because of the quality of my items, prices, good eye, and my attention to detail. But I could make 5-6 times that If I wasn't only buying 20% of the time.
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