Art

For Sale

I’m getting ready to sell off a bunch of my work. Mostly unframed pieces on paper. Larger pieces are approximately 11 x 15 inches, and I’m thinking $30-$50 for most of them. Smaller pieces would be less, obviously. I’ve got some little pieces that will be around $10, so there will be a broad range of prices.

Most of these are mixed media, with a combination of paint (oils or acrylics), oil pastels, collage, and found objects. All are one of a kind. Most are on really good paper, but some are on recycled paper. The recycled paper is good quality art paper, but I think it would be fair to reduce the price on those a bit.

I’m also thinking of letting go of some handmade books, mostly blanks, but there are a couple of finished books, too. Finished books are more labor intensive than paintings, though, so I’m not sure what to charge for them yet. I’ll have to think about that. Blank books will probably be in the $25-30 range, depending on what they’re made of. Smaller ones will be a little less–the materials are less costly, but making them is every bit as labor intensive as making larger books.

My plan is to put everything up on Etsy and get a PayPal account sorted out at the end of the week (Friday, if I can manage it). Until then, if anyone here would like to purchase anything by check, let me know by e-mail. I’ll pre-sell things here for a little less than I will through Etsy. Feel free to make me an offer! For pre-sales, I’m willing to mail things out as soon as I have a check in my hands.

Pretty much anything that is not a journal and is not super big or on canvas is for sale. If you live locally and there are pieces that are big or are on canvas that you are interested in, let me know, and we can definitely work something out. I just don’t want to try to ship large stuff, because of the packing and cost involved.

Art, Artist Books, Bookarts, Collage

Balancing Equations Journal

Balancing Equations Journal (front)
Balancing Equations Journal, front
9 1/2 x 6 inches
collage (altered Polaroid, fragments from algebra book and dictionary, anatomical illustration, old dress patterns)

The paper bag journal has a name, now. Also, a front cover. The covers were made from recycled backs from old spiral-bound notebooks. On one of them, I’d written a bunch of figures while balancing my checkbook. I glued dress patterns over most of the numbers, partially obscuring them, but I kept the “Balance.

I really like the way the hemp cord looks, woven through the holes in the covers. I’ve left the ends long and dangling for now, and will probably attach something to the ends. Little brass or copper cow bells, maybe, but that’ll have to wait until I’m finished filling the book, because the noise might drive me nuts.

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Top and Spine Detail
9 1/4 x 6 inches
brown paper grocery bags Coptic bound with waxed linen thread, 10 signatures of 2 leaves (40 pages)