Great painters work hard at their craft, creating art paintings, and their hard work has created wealth for many others. Finding the right emerging artist and riding with them means money in the bank when the critics howl. Finding, focusing and befriending as a patron, friend can mean a collection of art paintings worth far beyond its street value. Knowing what you are looking for and what you are looking at can mean the difference between money well spent and money lost.

There are a lot of factors in acquiring a collection and realizing a substantial return. Today’s technology is providing a unique opportunity to forge niche which once it runs its course could provide a tremendous upside. Never before have paintings been able to be crafted so that its appeal could be enjoyed by multiple individuals. Never before could the richness of look and feel set a work as a standalone or be one in a line of limited production. High end auction houses and high end galleries still consider the single work, the one and only of its kind, with the entire focus and discipline of the artist exhibited as still the most valuable. The price of ownership reflects that standard and most often the artist is no longer emerging but painting in the heat or the heavens. As this method is understandably a standard within much of the art paintings industry, it is still not the only place to find true value on potential return.

Technology has now provided the opportunity for the masses to enjoy and become part of this once thought of niche. The digital age, the digital generation, and the digital revolution has created a methodology to not only create works, digital paintings, far beyond any pigment and oil process, but also to make the reproduction, or better than the word “reproduction”, the multiple output of that original work. The finalization of that process is called a “giclee”, in which the output is a result of ink being exactingly applied replicating the precise digital image directly onto canvas. The image is created digitally from digital pictures usually a scan of previously finished art paintings or done within a computer environment in which a literal digital image is made of the work. The image is then output from a high quality printer with specialized inks. The revolution is unparalleled in color, control, execution time, and discipline. With all its opportunities presented in workable relationships, integration, and changeably the artists have a virtual smorgasbord of executable technique at their disposal. This is an amazing and wonderful thing for any artist. This opportunity opens the way for the enjoyment, interaction with and the acquiring of paintings for a mere fraction of the cost related to the old methodology. Not only can more people have a single limited edition work in their own collection, but the upside of the investment potential could be unparallel as well.

Reproductions have in and of themselves been collectables at their own price points and at their own levels. Now these new works not only have their own price points but clearly outweigh the potential on true personal interaction. The look and feel and execution as well as their personal artist interaction within the multiple, yet single output painting offers a uniqueness all its own. These things along with the ability of the artist to make timely comments, personal artist insights, provide certificates of authorization creates a higher value similar to the works that are appraised at the “Antique Road Show”.

There are more opportunities for the great works to be shared, exhibited, and personally acquired. This is true not only because of the reduction in pricing and cost of ownership, but also in the quality and value added abilities that the artists now find at their finger tips. Individuals who engage with these types of paintings can truly enjoy the work and their personal and emotional attachments. They can look for an upside beyond them being personal “priceless” collectables because of that meaning and those messages which last for a lifetime.

Find an artist that you believe in and want to befriend. Find great art paintings that stop your heart and engages you. Find them as giclees and build a collection. It’s worth the ride.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
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