October 2009 Archives

October 13, 2009 - Cleveland, Ohio - Yesterday, October 12, I announced my intention to harshly edit my catalog of contemporary art prints as well as my wanting to combine the "Main" print catalog with the "Nude Prints" catalog.  It is done.

My plan was to have this project done for 2010, by January 1.  I wanted to have it done by November 1.  As things happen last night I had trouble falling asleep so I sat down and decide to maybe get a piece of this project done.  I couldn't stop.  Just one more phase and a couple of hours later my catalog revision was complete.

Because of editing and deletions I now have just under 200 contemporary art prints but I am pleased with my new selection.  Unlike before where I included things I really wasn't that fond of to appease a broader customer base now the work is all Douglas.  I also decided not to worry about offending people with my nude prints by having them in a separate catalog.  I am truly even more pleased with the selection now that they are all together.

The DOUGLAS Art Prints® contemporary art prints were always, for years, not much more than a hobby.  Something I devoted time to usually when I had a new print to ad and had the time away from my commercial photography.  I decided I had to devote some time to better organize and present my contemporary art and my enthusiasm got it completed long before I originally planned.

I take great pride in my contemporary prints knowing my fondness for stark, bold black and white with little detail isn't everyone's "cup of tea".  All of my prints are 100% art gallery archival quality.  I produce the prints only when ordered and I hand sign each one.

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October 12, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio - I will be harshly editing the number of DOUGLAS Art Prints® available between now and January 1, 2010.  Where I once wanted to offer as many different pieces to people of different taste, well now I don't.  

Anyone that knows my work knows I strongly prefer bold black and white.  In an effort to appeal to a wider audience I produced some color prints, often variations of my original black and white prints.  Some of them I  even kind of liked.  Two things have become obvious.  First, all of my prints sold have been my black and whites.  The other thing is, let me try and find a way to  say this, I don't truly like 99% of my color prints and now I don't much give a damn about reaching a wider audience.  I think I'll be happier being known for my black and white even if I have fewer customers.

The other thing I have done is to separate my nude prints from the rest of my work.  I did this so I wouldn't offend visitors to my web site that might prefer not to see the nudes.  It was an option.  In reviewing this policy I decided that my nudes are in fact fine art nudes.  If someone's offended what will be will be.  I want my work all in one catalog.

For years this contemporary art prints thing has been little more than a hobby.  Another creative outlet from my commercial photography business.  Now, for whatever reason, it will still be very secondary to my commercial photography but the prints will be 100% based on what I like and not to include appealing to a broader market.

I suspect these changes to occur rapidly and much before January 1.  Very possible before November 1.

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October 12, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio - "the dormer" is my newest contemporary art print in my much preferred stark black and white.  This print is of a dormer surrounded by a classic tile roof.  Almost Hitchcockian.

 

This is another example of my finding a subject for one of my attempts at contemporary art while working on a commercial photography assignment.  Actually the home itself was surrounded with trees and shrubs almost obscuring it from sight even from the sidewalk but it was this dormer that caught my attention.  

One of the reasons I like to remove much of the detail and use stark black and white is because I like to leave much of what one sees in my prints to their imagination.  To me it's what you don't see that I like.  In this print of the dormer I couldn't help but wonder what the view would be like from that small roof level window.