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The art prints offered here are
desert landscapes, garden scenes,
Santa
Fe style, and
wildlife images.
Limited edition has become a term that
has many questions attached for the buyer, and for most artists. My
definition of 'limited edition' is as follows:
Limited Edition
reproductions or art prints are printed in a variety of ways. The prints
that are offered here are reproduced by photo mechanical lithography
and laser printers. The 'limited' term is established when the
publisher/artist decides how many images are going to be in the
'edition'....that may be 25, 500, 750....or more.
Some individuals make
that decision based on what they think the market will bear. (How many
pieces of paper or canvas can be sold with that image on it? How much
money can I make if I print 250 more images?) That magic number is
decided prior to 'press time' and the artist signs and numbers each of
the pieces individually. This leads us to the term:
"Signed and numbered limited edition."
In my opinion, for
integrity's sake, there should never be another printing of the same image.
I don't print the image as note cards, or again as a larger/smaller image,
nor do I allow licensing of the image for other products.
Art prints can be an
affordable means of obtaining art work for the average person. Open
editions are usually cheaper to the customer than limited editions?
Why? Supply and demand. Fewer images on the market...more
valuable.
They may, or
may not be more economical to print for the artist/publisher, but that leads us
to a whole other subject.
That's the theory.
Sometimes it holds true. Sometimes it doesn't.
Artists do a lot of
gambling with the marketing of their work. Perhaps that's why you see so few
of them at the tables in Vegas!
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The term southwest art, has many different meanings, to artists and
customers alike. Does that mean 'art that is made in the southwest'?
Perhaps it's 'art with southwest subjects'?
What are southwest subjects?
Surely that doesn't mean everything must be cactus, or Native American
artifacts? Believe me there's a lot more to life in the southwest than
those two items.
Does that mean 'southwest colors', (I'm thinking of the
old peach, blue and light green with beige theme.) What are southwest colors?
More than beige, peach, blue and light green! There's
lavender, violet, deep green, earthy cactus green, golden yellow, bright red,
rose, and all the colors of earth and mineral.
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