Saturday, March 13, 2010

Need to reach beyond local clients. How & or where do I go to target the wealthy or famous to paint portraits?

Getting sort'a bombarded with orders from friends %26amp; coworkers to identically reproduce paintings on canvas. The preference is their favorite photos. I've been a very nice guy %26amp; charging them less than 1/2 what a pro. would charge them. So, after 40+ paintings I'm ready to reach more rewarding challenges. I have DL a list of atheletes agents %26amp; puttin' together presentations by mail.....pictures, letter, proposal. Is this a good idea ? Are there other resources that are easier to engage in ? Thanks n advance to all.Need to reach beyond local clients. How %26amp; or where do I go to target the wealthy or famous to paint portraits?
If you are really good at oil portrait painting get a few examples ready and have the artwork scaned.($200 for an 30x40 size piece) I would then take the digital image and after adjusting the color balance in photo shop make a small size copy for an ad. you need to show a copy of the photo and the finished product.


Where you need to advertise is in very expensive magazines. I see portrait artists asking twenty to fifty thousand dollars for large oil paintings in magazines like Southern Living or Architectural Magazine or the Robb report. O f course it costs a bit to advertise there also.


I have to tell you, that portraits are tricky. A great painting has to do more than look like the photo. It requires that it really look like a professional masterpiece of art. The painting must have a better background than the photo, and it might require the art be a combination of several photos.


So 40 paintings in or so, maybe you might try for a less ambitious cliental. If you are really good at this, and I am taking your word for it, show examples to a local art gallery and let them get you the clients. Offer a free protrait as a chairatle donation to the most expensive chairty you got in town, where all the rich people are giving money.


Do a portrait of the mayor, or the fire chief and give it to the city, make sure you do a press release also.


Find a wedding planner, and offer a commision if they get you portrait jobs for new brides.


Run down some of those crazy pagent mothers, and offer a free portrait as first prize as a way to get noticed. If one kid wins it the other moms will want one too.Need to reach beyond local clients. How %26amp; or where do I go to target the wealthy or famous to paint portraits?
try this,may be useful for you.





Portrait2000.com can turn your photo into handmade Art. Such as oil paintings, pencil sketches, pastel drawings, watercolors, color pencils, Charcoal drawings and so on.


http://www.portrait2000.com

No comments:

Post a Comment