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| The minimum charge for commissioned paitnings is $4,000, half of which is due before the artist begins the painting. Email the artist to enquire about commissions. if you want to have a particular image painted or call him at 604-985-4262. Alternatively, click here for • paintings at the artist's studio and • paintings conssigned at art galleries. To begin a commission process, you should have one or more photographs or other visual reference material that show at least a rough layout of how you want the painting to look. Without such reference material, I wouldn't know what you're visualizing in your mind as to how you want the painting to look. Commissions can be difficult to do when the client has an idea in mind of how the painting should look, but is unable to convey that concept to the artist, and the artist meanwhile has a different concept in mind of how he thinks the client wants the painting to look – or how the painting should look to be inspiring. So for commissions to succeed, there must be a meeting of the minds, and that can be most effectively by having both parties see layouts and agree on them before the artist proceeds with the painting. (As the old adage goes: a picture is worth a thousand words.) Alternatively, if the customer doesn't submit photos or other reference material to the artist, the customer must be open-minded and trust the artist's skill and commitment. Whether the customer has a specific concept or just an open-ended concept (thereby giving the aritst free rein) the customer must sign a contract before the painting begins, agreeing to pay for half of the job before the painting will proceed, and the other half at the time of completion of the painting. The customer must also agree in writing that modifications to the painting that he or she might request be limited to a certain number of hours of work by the artist (i.e. five hours of modifications), unless the customer agrees in writing that extra work should be done beyond the five hours), in which case the customer is required to pay in advance for such modifications according to the projected number of hours of work that the artist estimates will be required to modify the painting to meet the desired outcome of the customer. |
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