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To ask how much you'd pay for this painting?

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buckeejit · 26/07/2018 21:39

After seeing a landscape scene that I liked, I asked my bil who is an artist, (who was with me at the time), if he would do me a painting inspired by it.

His work is abstract, he's only sold some items through art fairs but he is very talented imo & luckily I totally love the painting he's made us.

However, I said 'great, send us the bill' & later dh said similar, and bil said 'just assess it & send what you think it's worth', or similar.

Neither of us know what to do, dh says whatever we send, he'll be insulted! Grin

What would you do & how much?

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Aridane · 27/07/2018 06:34

Min £500

strawberrisc · 27/07/2018 06:42

You couldn’t pay me to hang that on my wall!

LynetteScavo · 27/07/2018 06:43

I'm a cheap skate and would want to pay £250 but I think it's worth more like £500.

BitOfFun · 27/07/2018 07:20

Come on, it's not David Dickinson's Real Deal- you don't have to call his bluff! Just ask him what he was expecting you to pay.

bridgetreilly · 27/07/2018 07:31

At that size, it's cost him a fair amount just for materials, and taken a good amount of time to paint. I'd say at least £500.

GeorgeIII · 27/07/2018 07:34

I think 500. Nice round number. He is a relative.
For local amateur painters 200 is about the max charged.

BringMeTea · 27/07/2018 07:36

Agree LMDC. So many ill-mannered folk. Anyway. To answer the OP, minimum £500 given the size.

BlueUggs · 27/07/2018 07:38

A friend who works full time but does sell her (amazing!) artwork sold me a framed painting she had already done and a framed commission to go with it and we paid £1200, and that was mate's rates!!! We were happy to pay it too.

kaytee87 · 27/07/2018 07:39

Honestly, you'd have to pay me to hang that in my house. It's a good job we're all different though or life would be boring.

TheLionRoars1110 · 27/07/2018 07:40

£500 given the size and the time it would have taken.

Enjoy OP!

Why people have to be so rude about other people's taste in art is beyond me. What's the point? Ruining it for the OP? Showing how clever you are?
If you have nothing nice to say....

ShirleyPhallus · 27/07/2018 07:44

The interpretation drawings are really making me giggle Grin

ToastyFingers · 27/07/2018 07:46

I like it. It's earthy, and conjures up volcanic, jewelled sort of impressions for me. OP, your kitchen must be pretty epic to house such a grand painting.

If I wasn't so achingly skint, I'd pay 750.

DinosApple · 27/07/2018 07:47

Very minimum of £500.

It's a large picture, paint and canvas are pricey, he's a trained artist and it's taken his time to create, meaning he's not earning at doing something else.

Do not deduct framing costs off that though, that's a totally separate cost.

ToastyFingers · 27/07/2018 07:48

also, clearly were all different, as the op's is the only one of the (very lovely, just not to my taste) pieces on this thread that I'd hand in my home.

ToastyFingers · 27/07/2018 07:49

So many typos. hangs head in shame .

QueenofmyPrinces · 27/07/2018 07:54

So he painted this without agreeing a price and now it looks like you’re going to have to fork our £500 for it?!

I find it very depressing and I’m not sure how it’s suppoaed to resemble a landscape unless it’s based on a muddy puddle?

People’s interpretations and drawings over the paintings have made me laugh out loud this morning.

I appreciate it should be hung differently to how you’ve photographed but all I can see is one big breast drawn in the way you’d see it in a biology book discussing female anatomy.

I know art is to an individual taste but I wouldn’t be hanging it in my house.

I would accept it to be polite, begrudging pay the cheapest I could get away with, store it in the attic and only bring it out when BIL visited Grin

But on a serious note - it’s good that you like it and I’m definitely no art enthusiastic so probably just don’t appreciate it for what it is.

However, it seems there are a lot of people on here who do know about art and can see the talent in his painting so I hope their advice has helped you.

MandalaYogaTapestry · 27/07/2018 07:55

I love it. And I think using the hours decoration rates as a wake-up call for estimating the purchase price is spot on.

bruffin · 27/07/2018 07:56

I like it, love the colours etc

I think you need to remember prices in galleries include up to £40% commission to the gallery

kaytee87 · 27/07/2018 07:58

It looks like someone's wiped a dirty nappy across a canvas 🙈😂

KeiTeNgeNge · 27/07/2018 07:59

£150, due to size only as I don’t like it.

ProfessorMoody · 27/07/2018 08:03

I think I need to frame some of DS' masterpieces. He did some remarkably similar work to this when he was about 3.

Poster paint on sugar paper anyone?

Fuckedoffat48b · 27/07/2018 08:05

OP I have fallen in love with a slightly smaller piece by a local artist for £895, that I would love in my new house. It is money I don't have but I wouldn't dream of trying to haggle/get it for less.

frogsoup · 27/07/2018 08:09

You can't deduct the framing cost Shock. You pay for the painting, framing is on top of that!! Decent framing for a painting that size would be upwards of a hundred quid. Doesn't to me look like it needs a frame anyway, large canvases rarely do. It's not to my taste (to sat the least) but upwards of 500 if he's a professional artist is edging towards the right ballpark, in a gallery youd be looking at considerably more.

humblesims · 27/07/2018 08:09

I cant see it either but as an artist myself I would say that for that size of painting from a St Martins graduate, professional or not, you would be looking at more than has been suggested so far. But it's family so...without insulting him, maybe couple hundred quid. But as I say, the image isn't showing for me. To frame a painting that size would cost upwards of £70

Lovestonap · 27/07/2018 08:15

I prefer this

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