In a message dated 4/8/2009 2:09:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jbl...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Did you put a high price on the piece if the pieces were for sale? I put a price of $350 on it. I wasn't particularly interested in selling it because I thought I might enter it in the employee art show at the Museum, if we have one this year. On the other hand, if someone wanted to pay $350 for it, I figured I could make something else. I looked at some of the other pieces. Many were not for sale. The highest price that I saw was $950 for an art work composed of intricately manipulated fabric by an artist who sells her work and has written books about fabric manipulation. I wonder if there is some way of "welding" the piece into a permanent knot. This is somewhat hard, in that the wire is pretty flexible and I don't have metal working skills. Definitely a design flaw that should be considered in future efforts. However, part of its charm is that it can assume different positions. Another problem is that whenever you really attach it together, you lose the transparency and it begins to look like a muddle of wire. I also noticed that both ends looked good. How did you manage to hide the ending so well? I worked around the bottom with the silver wire making a picot, and ended in the hole one spot upward from the end point. Because it was wire, you could clip it rather close. Then, when I photographed it, I turned the side with the little wire ends away from the camera. The pieces are accepted entirely on the basis of the photograph, so making the photograph look good is the most important thing, although the piece could be rejected if it really didn't look like the photograph. That is one thing that I really learned from this. The photography is very important in entering art. If the piece is beautiful, but the photograph doesn't do it justice, it is a big problem. The piece is in silver and gold, and actually shines a great deal more in real life, than I think you can tell from the picture. But it was really very difficult to photograph. Devon **************New Deals on Dell Netbooks â Now starting at $299 (A HREF=http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219939010x1201342897/aol?redir= http:%2F%2Fa d.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213771626%3B35379597%3Bw) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
