Recent content by Cremnitz

I guess I had notifications off back in 2023! Never saw that there were responses to this thread until today. Thanks for the comments over the last year plus!

Did they tax you on the retail price of your work or on the cost of materials to create it? Either way, sure seems evil to me. I live in Utah - years ago artwork was exempt from sales tax. Of course they did away with that! There was also no requirement to pay "use" tax on stuff you bought tax...

I guess frames can be considered art supplies? I bought a huge quantity of frames several years ago when they were on sale at an attractive price, in groups of ten. I still have several boxes full of ten, but I needed one last week in a size I didn't have on hand and went to the website where I...

Was that question directed to me? Not yet..... There is a method that uses acid in open topped containers along with the lead sheets in separate open topped containers, both of them inside a plastic tub with a mostly air tight lid, that creates a lovely lead oxide in a very short amount of...

You were lucky! When I first starting painting professionally, we didn't have dirt, just rocks. Dirt came years later after the rocks were broken down by nature.

By popular demand my wife and I have decided to officially offer prints of our work, but only from an original that has sold. We have been selling quite a few prints of sold pieces lately, by word of mouth with nothing offered overtly on the web or in any galleries. The question is not whether...

After reading Artyczar's post I feel like I have been lucky. I can't think of a single time when anything of mine was lost, stolen, damaged beyond repair or completely destroyed. I haven't shipped very many paintings though. I tend to enter shows and seek out galleries that are within driving...

I used to paint quite a bit from supposedly public domain images on Pixabay and would also ask working photographers if I could use a specific image of theirs to paint from, offering them a commission if it sold. I was never turned down by any photographers. One of them who is reasonably famous...

My two worst disasters were caused by gallery people. They were both encaustic paintings on cradled birch panels with no frames around them. One of them, a tiny 5x7 inch piece, suffered a big dent on one coiner that was not repairable. It was one of my favorite paintings, so it is now in my...

This looks like a topic made for my user name! I have been making my own oils for a few years but have never made a lead white. I just scored a pretty big pile of very thin used lead sheets that came from the walls of an X-Ray room that was torn down, and will be trying to make some lead oxide...

Hi everyone. New guy here. I never really worried about having super high quality photos since I don't sell anything online. I just needed a photo that clearly showed the painting so my entry would not be handicapped by a poor photo being sent to the jury. Well, the pandemic has changed that...

Thanks snoball!

I think I read somewhere that I have to post at least twice to activate some features, so here we go! Or does it have to be two separate threads?

A friend sent me here. Looks like a pretty nice art forum. As you can probably guess by my user name I am an oil painter who likes lead white!