jerrywh
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
I guess people would say I am somewhat unconventional. I am not a big scroll fan but I love well done scroll. For the most part I love 18th century art and that is mostly what I do. I am lucky in that I can afford to go for years without any big sales. However over I do real well financially. There is scroll work in 18th century art but it's different. It is Rococo style. What this tells me is this. Whatever art you do it must be something that somebody with money wants to buy. Not many like the old stuff I do but the ones who do are loaded and can't find guns like I do. I hate Picasso but I'm not the only one who counts and the price of his stuff proves what you say has merit. Do what you love and do it very well. Most likely you won't be the only one who loves it. I think it is important to be unique. If everything looked the same we would be bored into quitting. Look at Coggan. He does scroll but it's' different. It seems to me that all the very great ones are a little different. Ron Smith. Lovenberg-- etc.
It’s always the art that sells.
Ps- Scrolls to me are foilage like flowers in the garden. They can be beautiful if they arn't sterile of flowers. Sterile scrolls are rose bushes without roses. Ot trupet vines without the trumpets.
It’s always the art that sells.

Ps- Scrolls to me are foilage like flowers in the garden. They can be beautiful if they arn't sterile of flowers. Sterile scrolls are rose bushes without roses. Ot trupet vines without the trumpets.
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