# My prints are now being sold in a store! And I'm very excited **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087 "2011-10-19T00:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/21 "2011-10-25T21:43:40Z")
With respect to pricing: A _reproduction_ of a painting, while commonly called a print, is a different – and lower priced – animal from a work created as a (fine art) print. The latter category includes etchings, lithographs, serigraphs, block prints, and variety of minor media. Prints traditionally are defined as being original work in those printmaking forms, pulled by the artist or under his/her direction, in a limited edition with each copy signed and numbered by the artist. The giclée reproductions you link to are going to carry a lower price than the kind of stuff I just described. Traditional mass-produced reproductions (mostly four-color process lithography) cost even less. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/22 "2011-10-26T03:53:15Z")
> [@FeAudrey](#): > > With respect to pricing: > > A _reproduction_ of a painting, while commonly called a print, is a different – and lower priced – animal from a work created as a (fine art) print. > > The latter category includes etchings, lithographs, serigraphs, block prints, and variety of minor media. Prints traditionally are defined as being original work in those printmaking forms, pulled by the artist or under his/her direction, in a limited edition with each copy signed and numbered by the artist. > > The giclée reproductions you link to are going to carry a lower price than the kind of stuff I just described. Traditional mass-produced reproductions (mostly four-color process lithography) cost even less. Thanks, that’s good to know the terminology. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/23 "2011-10-26T05:24:15Z")
I really really like your work, and it is totally something I would hang on my wall. I love Dandelion and lots of the other flower/tree/plant paintings. Good work. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/24 "2011-10-26T05:52:22Z")
Congratz! ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/25 "2011-10-26T22:15:00Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > Thanks, that’s good to know the terminology. Glad I could be of assistance. Now for advice you didn’t ask for! The style of your painting would work for “real” printmaking as well – block prints or serigraphy. You might like to try those media. Your bio says that you are engineer. Printmaking is very technical. You might find it congenial, or it might be what you are trying to get a break from. If you’d like to try it, you need access to a properly equipped studio. You might be able to do a little block printing at home – you are a grown-up and presumably OK with sharp objects. But etching (and related forms) use acid, serigraphy can have hazmat/ventilation issues, and all them, including lithography, use printing presses too expensive for home use. Your best bet would probably be an introductory course at a community college, which would give you studio access at modest cost. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/26 "2011-10-27T00:39:07Z")
very feminine! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/27 "2011-10-27T16:20:42Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > I really really like your work, and it is totally something I would hang on my wall. I love Dandelion and lots of the other flower/tree/plant paintings. Good work. Thanks! I have a bunch of them hanging on my various wall. I think some of them work even better hanging on a wall with others in contrasting colors around them. Although I’ve been buying some work by other artists to hang on my walls, so that when my works start selling I won’t have separation anxiety about parting with them. > [@brittekland](#): > > Congratz! Thanks! > [@FeAudrey](#): > > Glad I could be of assistance. > Now for advice you didn’t ask for! > > The style of your painting would work for “real” printmaking as well – block prints or serigraphy. You might like to try those media. > > Your bio says that you are engineer. Printmaking is very technical. You might find it congenial, or it might be what you are trying to get a break from. > > If you’d like to try it, you need access to a properly equipped studio. > > You might be able to do a little block printing at home – you are a grown-up and presumably OK with sharp objects. But etching (and related forms) use acid, serigraphy can have hazmat/ventilation issues, and all them, including lithography, use printing presses too expensive for home use. > > Your best bet would probably be an introductory course at a community college, which would give you studio access at modest cost. I’m always happy to listen to advice. I’ve heard other people suggest I should try real printmaking. I often like prints by other artists when I see them, especially screen printing. And I took a short screen printing class one time and liked it. But I don’t know if printmaking really works with either my creative process or my space and time considerations. I like being able to come home from my day job, and being able to sit in front of the TV and work on a painting. There’s a lot of artists and art resources in Houston, so I’m sure I could find a place to use printing stuff, but it’d be difficult for me to do while still working a day job. And while I like to imagine quitting my job, and just working as an artist, I’m not prepared to do that until I can be sure that I could make a living wage as an artist. But maybe I’ll take a more extensive class, and maybe find a way to make it work for me. > [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > very feminine! That’s a reasonable description. Although for the baby shower for my nephew, I gave a painting I did of two dinosaurs that I was very proud of and that I thought was suitable for a baby boy. ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/28 "2011-10-27T19:40:16Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I’m always happy to listen to advice. Very sporting of you! (… did I mention I’m a DWTS fan? :eek: ) > [@](#): > > I like being able to come home from my day job, and being able to sit in front of the TV and work on a painting. I can see how sharp objects, hazardous fumes, acid baths, and serious machinery might not go well in that mix. 🆒 > [@](#): > > for the baby shower for my nephew, I gave a painting I did … that I thought was suitable for a baby boy. [yet more un-asked-for advice]You could direct a little marketing at parenting groups. Everybody is always moaning about the lack of alternatives to commercial tie-ins for their kids’ rooms.[/yet more un-asked-for advice] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/29 "2011-10-27T20:05:08Z")
> [@FeAudrey](#): > > \ > [yet more un-asked-for advice]You could direct a little marketing at parenting groups. Everybody is always moaning about the lack of alternatives to commercial tie-ins for their kids’ rooms.[/yet more un-asked-for advice] 🙂 Oh, that’s a good idea! I will look into that. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/30 "2011-10-28T21:23:02Z")
> [@FeAudrey](#): > > [yet more un-asked-for advice]You could direct a little marketing at parenting groups. Everybody is always moaning about the lack of alternatives to commercial tie-ins for their kids’ rooms.[/yet more un-asked-for advice] 🙂 This is true, I was just thinking that the windup penguin picture would be great in my kids’ room. Especially because they’re very disparate ages (14 v. 7) and it is grown-up yet soft enough to suit them both. I like the origami whale for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/31 "2011-10-28T21:28:34Z")
I have to say, Traffic Light evokes for me the Pixar short “Birds”. I keep waiting for the cable to snap and send the bird flying. 🙂 What I like best about some of your art is that it seems to be in the middle of a story, but you get wonder what the story could be. I like that a lot. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/32 "2011-10-31T15:00:17Z")
My prints are being held being held by the local police, not so excited ! But seriously well done mate, I reckon things are on the up for you. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/33 "2011-10-31T22:18:45Z")
> [@grayhairedmomma](#): > > I have to say, Traffic Light evokes for me the Pixar short “Birds”. I keep waiting for the cable to snap and send the bird flying. 🙂 > > What I like best about some of your art is that it seems to be in the middle of a story, but you get wonder what the story could be. I like that a lot. > > Congratulations! Thanks! I like to think of some of the paintings as a snapshot in time. > [@Lust4Life](#): > > My prints are being held being held by the local police, not so excited ! > > But seriously well done mate, I reckon things are on the up for you. Ha, yeah I wouldn’t want my prints held by the police either! And thanks, I reckon that things are on the up. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087/34 "2011-11-01T16:39:15Z")
Very cool! Congrats! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-prints-are-now-being-sold-in-a-store-and-im-very-excited/600087.md?page=1)