Spent real money on a piece of art for the first time. Up till now, the most I’d ever spent was $75 for a Johnny Ryan illustration.
Tell truth, I bought two original pieces of art recently. The first one though, only cost me six bucks. That’s right, only six!
Artist/filmmaker Jim Ether was briefly selling $6 dollar “mystery” paintings. He put up a great video on youtube showing off scores of the random little paintings, and I’m happy to say I grabbed one. He’s taken down the video, but you can still see the paintings at the link above. The deal was, you sent $6, he sent you a piece, you had no way of knowing what you’d get. Great idea. Seems like maybe it was too great (it definitely felt like a steal), so I’m not sure that he’s still selling them. But he does have an Etsy store here.
But then the piece that I actually spent a little bit on was a triptych by artist Skinner, whose work I got sort of obsessed with when I picked up a comic/zine of his at last year’s APE. Check out his site… there’s a recent Citrus Report interview with him… and he’s also got an upcoming show at Minna in San Francisco.
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