Ianbertram

LATEST ARTICLES ( 165 )

• Pricing Your Work

  How do you price your work? Pricing of art seems to be one of those black arts with no definitive answer. It should go without saying of course that you need... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Panchromatica Designs - Vintage Graphic Art and Design in Reproduction

  Panchromatica Designs is a sideline to my work as an artist, through which I sell inexpensive reproductions of a range of graphic art and design that has... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• What Art Do You Have on Your Walls?

  I don't suppose I'm unusual in not hanging much of my own work on my walls at home. I prefer to see a variety of styles and subjects. Man with letter wearing... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Posting Break

  I haven't been posting as often as I would like, but I haven't been working very much either because of more health issues. I'm due for an operation on my foot... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Rapid Systems Of Best Eleven Considered

  From your days of joysticks to present day activity-vulnerable gaming device, video games are continually getting more technologically advanced. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Keep Dancing!

  

  Here in the UK we are in the middle of a series of Strictly Come Dancing (In the US it's called Dancing with the Stars). For me one of the joys every week has... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Working Hard...

  

  In preparation for my upcoming solo show in November I've been working hard at making more prints and getting them framed. As if that wasn't enough I've also... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Forthcoming Shows and a New Video

  After something of a famine, I've now got two shows coming up. First is a group show at Pewsey Gallery and Art Centre. The show opens on 4th September until 30t... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sale

  The sale is now on. Various small prints have been reduced in price to £25.00. This will be a permanent reduction, (postage is extra). I would prefer to have... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Can a Digital Print Still Be an ‘original’? How Does This Affect Pricing?

  The definition of ‘original’ print that I work to is two-fold: - the work should be conceived for the medium in which it is to be produced, (so no copies of... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Does Size Matter?

  Go to any show of contemporary work and you will find huge canvases. These are not large because they need to be, in the sense that John Martin’s subjects deman... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess

  How’s this for an opening sentence? It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Whatever Happened to Susan Maughan - and Other Stories from My Youth.

  When I was young I wanted to be Fred Astaire (and here). I'm not sure whether I was attracted to the dancing or the idea of getting my hands on Ginger Rogers... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art and Language

  The words we use have a critical effect on the way we think and this is as true in the arts as in any other field. Witness for example my own concerns over the... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Using Creative Commons

  

  An interesting idea I hadn’t come across before. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Salon CC Salons are global, informal events focused on building a community... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• What's Going On?

  

  Short answer? Not a lot! The past few weeks have been difficult with continued problems limiting my mobility and ability to stand for long and sapping my energy. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Using Photographs as References

  

  There have been several threads recently on WetCanvas forum and in art based groups on LinkedIn, all on the same topic of using other peoples photographs as... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Taking Payment Via Your Smartphone

  In the past when I've been selling my pictures at fairs I've often lost sales, once a very large sale, because I didn't take credit cards. The problem was that... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, BUSINESS

• Thinking About the Original

  

  I have to accept that I can be a little obsessive about the way in which reproductions are marketed, largely because I think that the essential qualities that g... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Campaign for REAL Prints

  If you are a printmaker you get used to people saying things like "it's only a print" as if this fact alone were enough to dismiss a work as unimportant; as... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE