Like most young people I was involved with art from a very early age. I started drawing at about age 3 with crayons. Mostly on the walls, furniture, the dog, and to my mother's dismay...most anything that did not move. Moving up to coloring books, learning to stay within the lines. Folowing that it was colored pencils in the coloring books and on to oils at about age 9 or 10.
I think it was at that point my next door neighbor gave me a camera. Very old with one shutter speed, it took 8 frames per roll. Film size was 620, I remember that much, waist level viewfinder with broken glass...but it kept me happy.
I think they were trying to tell me something. You can't seem to draw very well, so why not use a camera instead.
My point is that the work, be it a photograph, oil painting, pencil drawing, charcoal....are critically important. The value of a oil painting, photograph, giclee, watercolor is not necessarily what the market will bear....it's worth is what one individual will pay for it.
When a number of these same mediums (from the same artist), become available to the market with the same level of interest, that value increases. A collection has now been born.
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