Artmigos is a clever new tool to help people pool money together to buy art as a gift or for a cause. Let's try this out.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to buy "Galileo Library in the Afternoon Sun" to display at the school on this Artmigos page.
Now, you can help buy "The Ideal School," a Collective Vision painting, for Galileo while raising money for continuing art projects and classes at the school.

If you see a piece of artwork (anyone's artwork) that inspires you but would wreck your budget, contact Artmigos.
1: Pick a piece of art and contact the artist with event details ( e.g. recipient name, event date, etc.)
2: Invite your friends to contribute toward the gift online. Artmigos.com keeps a running tally of contributions, along with a list of givers.
3: Collect your art. When the purchase price is reached, Artmigos.com provides a certificate listing the names of all givers.

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There's an old saying - "The art looks better on your walls than in my closet". It's true!

The primary mission of TheArtDontStop.org is to promote creativity - art sales are a way to support that mission.
There are several ways to buy art from TheArtDontStop.org. The first step is always to send me an email using the contact form.
You might want to schedule a studio visit. You'll be very welcome and there will be no pressure to buy.

Gifts, Gift Returns: Art can be a good gift! It's definitely more special than something made in China. I know that it can be a risk, so I'm happy to allow gift recipients to exchange their art for another piece of the same value. When you buy a gift, I'll include a statement of that policy as well as tips for saving money on framing.

Pricing:You might notice that many of the drawings and paintings are part of priced topic galleries ("$15 Drawings", "$40-60 Paintings", etc...). These prices are usually accurate, but check with me first. You can often get a discount when buying multiple pieces.

Commissions: I can draw or paint whatever subject you want for any budget. I can make a 5" x 7" drawing from a photo for $15 or paint a 3' x 4' canvas for $2000 (close-up portraits may be extra). We'll talk about the project to make sure the art captures the mood you're looking for. See some examples in the "Commissions" gallery.

Art Experience at Your Event: I'll come to your event with markers and paper and invite people to draw a self-portrait of themselves at your event. No skill needed - stick figures are okay! I'll cut these drawings out and collage them into a painting so that everyone looks like they're celebrating together in the same room. The result is a collective self-portrait of all the people there. The same process can be used to create collective vision paintings about any sort of topic. Your guests get a creative experience and you get a unique memento of the party.

Other Ideas? Let's come up with other ideas for the art. Want one of these paintings on a mug? One of these drawings as a screen saver? Get in touch and we can create a whole new paradigm.

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I'm spending time today photographing and posting a bunch of old acrylic paintings on paper. They are all 24 inches long by 18-19" wide on watercolor paper or a thick bristol vellum.

These paintings are all a great bargain at $40 - $100 each. You don't need to frame them - you can put binder clips on the corners and hook those onto nails. These are also cheap to ship in a tube.

Contact me if you're interested in buying any art on TheArtDontStop.org. Gifts can be exchangeable and public school teachers get a discount.

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So, you'd like to buy a $10 drawing from TheArtDontStop.org, but you don't want to then spend $50 on a frame. You don't have to!

You can:
- Hang the drawings on your fridge with a magnet.
- Use pushpins - or get those long 'dead bug pins'.
- Get one nice frame that fits with a bunch of drawings of the same size; every week, display a new drawing.
- Put binder clips on each corner of the drawing and hook them onto nails on the wall.

Remember - paintings that you see on TheArtDontStop.org are painted on the sides of the canvases, so they do not need to be framed.

This is the drawing of the week for November 19-25, 2006.

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Drawings of the Weeks

Visitors are welcome in my studio at home in the Mission district in San Francisco. Just contact me so we can work out a time.

For more about this ficus drawing and others like it, visit the 'interiors' topic gallery on this site.

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