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MIDLAND GALLERY
4610 N Garfield (Colonnade Center on the Loop & N Garfield)
Midland, TX
(432) 694-8761
midlandgallery.com
now represents Lindy . Tell Mike and Fern Crume we sent you.
Can't tour the gallery in person?
Visit the Midland Gallery page on this website to see Lindy's oils and pastels
A fine art book on Texas artists
July 2010
TEXAS TRADITIONS
by Michael Duty and Susan Hallsten McGarry 2010 Fresco Fine Art Publications
Lindy Severns has been selected as one of 75 Texas artists for inclusion in Fresco Fine Art Publication's July 2010 hardback TEXAS TRADITIONS, coauthored by Michael Duty and Susan Hallsten McGarry.
"The book will showcase the art of Texas' finest painters and sculptors. This book will be the definitive publication on Texas art for years to come."
Michael Duty, a frequent lecturer on American Western Art and History, has authored several books, including his recent WESTERN TRADITIONS, winner of Best Book on the Southwest (co-authored by Suzanne Deats) and COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA, Best Art Book of 2003 (National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City).
He currently serves as Director of Art of the American West for Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.
Susan Hallsten McGarry served as Editor in Chief of SOUTHWEST ART magazine for 18 years, beginning in 1979. She continues employing her art historian/curator background on lecture circuits and in print.
This honor also invites Lindy's participation in 3 shows/exhibitions next fall 2010:
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas August 2010
Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX October 2010
Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe November 2010
According to the publishers, "The book will be approximately 288 pages and will sell for $85."
Wow.
July 2010
TEXAS TRADITIONS
by Michael Duty and Susan Hallsten McGarry 2010 Fresco Fine Art Publications
Lindy Severns has been selected as one of 75 Texas artists for inclusion in Fresco Fine Art Publication's July 2010 hardback TEXAS TRADITIONS, coauthored by Michael Duty and Susan Hallsten McGarry.
"The book will showcase the art of Texas' finest painters and sculptors. This book will be the definitive publication on Texas art for years to come."
Michael Duty, a frequent lecturer on American Western Art and History, has authored several books, including his recent WESTERN TRADITIONS, winner of Best Book on the Southwest (co-authored by Suzanne Deats) and COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA, Best Art Book of 2003 (National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City).
He currently serves as Director of Art of the American West for Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.
Susan Hallsten McGarry served as Editor in Chief of SOUTHWEST ART magazine for 18 years, beginning in 1979. She continues employing her art historian/curator background on lecture circuits and in print.
This honor also invites Lindy's participation in 3 shows/exhibitions next fall 2010:
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas August 2010
Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX October 2010
Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe November 2010
According to the publishers, "The book will be approximately 288 pages and will sell for $85."
Wow.
WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING LATELY AND WHAT'S AHEAD
by Lindy Severns
12-21-2009
Alpine's Artwalk & Gallery Night 2009, held annually the weekend before Thanksgiving was a great success. Once again, Kiowa Gallery featured my area landscapes. Jim and I enjoyed visiting with old friends and meeting new ones! Old Spanish Trail Gallery is one of the event sponsors each year....because we believe everyone should be able to come out and enjoy fine art!
Next show: Trappings of Texas 2010, the invitational traditional western art and gear show of the Museum of the Big Bend. This show is held in conjunction with the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. It brings out the best of the west, and we're looking forward to seeing familiar faces around the chuckwagon and exhibit hall. For a sneak preview of my 3 entries and auction piece, go to Trappings on this website.
The show opens with a preview party and live auction the last weekend in February. It runs thru April 26. They'll be a page devoted to these pastels soon... keep checking the main Trappings page for more.
Special thanks go to Mike Crume and Midland Gallery for donating an exquisite frame, valued at $825, to the Trappings live auction this year. (The least I could do was fill it with a painting.) This auction funds childrens' programs at the museum all year.
Winter in Big Bend country is plein air (on location) painting season for me because I don't have to contend with the heat, bugs, snakes that accompany summer painting. Painting outdoors doesn't always produce finished work to hang in a gallery, but it's always fun, and the experience of painting on location carries over into the confines of my studio.
I don't do many workshops, but a delightful group of painters from Lakeway outside Austin twisted my painting arm. Ten of the Lakeway Painters and I will explore pastel painting there for three days the last of March 2010. Morning demos in pastel; individual instruction in all mediums each afternoon. I'm looking forward to this break in my routine!
by Lindy Severns
12-21-2009
Alpine's Artwalk & Gallery Night 2009, held annually the weekend before Thanksgiving was a great success. Once again, Kiowa Gallery featured my area landscapes. Jim and I enjoyed visiting with old friends and meeting new ones! Old Spanish Trail Gallery is one of the event sponsors each year....because we believe everyone should be able to come out and enjoy fine art!
Next show: Trappings of Texas 2010, the invitational traditional western art and gear show of the Museum of the Big Bend. This show is held in conjunction with the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. It brings out the best of the west, and we're looking forward to seeing familiar faces around the chuckwagon and exhibit hall. For a sneak preview of my 3 entries and auction piece, go to Trappings on this website.
The show opens with a preview party and live auction the last weekend in February. It runs thru April 26. They'll be a page devoted to these pastels soon... keep checking the main Trappings page for more.
Special thanks go to Mike Crume and Midland Gallery for donating an exquisite frame, valued at $825, to the Trappings live auction this year. (The least I could do was fill it with a painting.) This auction funds childrens' programs at the museum all year.
Winter in Big Bend country is plein air (on location) painting season for me because I don't have to contend with the heat, bugs, snakes that accompany summer painting. Painting outdoors doesn't always produce finished work to hang in a gallery, but it's always fun, and the experience of painting on location carries over into the confines of my studio.
I don't do many workshops, but a delightful group of painters from Lakeway outside Austin twisted my painting arm. Ten of the Lakeway Painters and I will explore pastel painting there for three days the last of March 2010. Morning demos in pastel; individual instruction in all mediums each afternoon. I'm looking forward to this break in my routine!
Collector's Corner
The fine art of pricing paintings (and insights on how you might save some dollars)
Gallery Representation
An artist can't paint around too many distractions, such as constantly marketing their art. A gallery takes care of the selling end of things for the artist. A gallery has a significant overhead requiring a continuous flow of money. (Artists hate relationships based on that word, "money".) The gallery not only frees up the artist's time for creating; it allows the artist freedom to create without seeing dollar signs on the forehead of every person who walks in to admire their work.
The gallery more than earns the hefty cut they receive off each painting they sell.
ArtWork Size
Like most professional artists, Lindy Severns prices her work on a sliding scale by the square inch. Smaller pieces, such as her 3" x 5" miniatures cost more per square inch, as do very large pieces. (Tiny pastels demand intricate work and take proportionately longer to do. but their small square inch size makes them less expensive than say, a 9" x 12". Pastels over 28" in either dimension require a great deal more time and effort, from selecting the subject and preparing the canvas to transporting to the framer.) Most of Lindy's art falls somewhere in between, and you can roughly figure that a 12" x 18" painting will cost you about twice as much as a 12" x 9" piece. Collecting miniature originals, w
hich can be purchased unframed from the studio for as little as $125 is a smart way to hang original art on your walls.
Medium
Lindy's oils and pastels of similar sizes are comparable in price. A large oil might be slightly more expensive because of the canvas or board it is on, but the higher cost of framing a pastel generally offsets this difference. All of Lindy's oils and all of her pastels are done on museum-grade, archival canvas or board of some kind.
Which takes the artist longer to do?
Depends on the subject. Pastels are usually more time-intensive, although oils require a longer period of time on the easel to dry between applications of paint.
(Remember, you pay by size, not for the time involved in a given painting.) Pencil drawings are significantly less expensive, and sketchbook pages and field sketches make up the least pricey pieces of art in Lindy's portfolio.
Format
Most artists and galleries sincerely believe art shouldn't be priced out of reach. We want everyone to enjoy fine art, in some form or another. In Lindy's case, frameable greeting cards (available through the studio store and at gallery and museum gift shops) as well as miniature originals help make this possible. You might be interested in small (8" x 10" or smaller hand-printed, colored pencil-enhanced prints. Other than these small hand-printed sizes, Lindy doesn't reproduce her originals. The original you buy is a unique image that only you can hang and enjoy!
Framing
Framing costs vary by hundreds of dollars for the same size painting. And as the adage goes, you get what you pay for. Museum glass is more than triple the cost of regular glass, but it allows a view of your painting unobstructed by glare and distortion. (Another recommended other option is regular glass with UV protective glazing, or lightweight museum-grade acrylic. Never use non-glare glass over a pastel or it will fuzzy your image.)
Conservation framing means that nothing touches your painting that isn't acid-free, an assurance that your painting won't deteriorate with age.)
Buy the best frame package you can afford, but at the same time, don't hesitate to ask that a painting be transferred to a less expensive frame if that means the difference in owning it or not. And unframed art is the most affordable of all-- buy what you love while it's available, then save up for top-notch framing. (Lindy's pastel originals come in protective foamcore cases. They can sit there awhile and wait for the right frame.)
Supply and Demand and the Artist's Time
Success plays a role in pricing. Paintings are unique creations. Each consumes great chunks of an artist's life. A big painting takes a bigger chunk of time. Appreciate that fact and the sometimes pricy tags on paintings make more sense.
Add the time spent traveling and researching a subject. Teaching and demonstrating sessions. Take into account the social engagements the artist misses. The meals she doesn't cook.
Working for yourself is still work. A serious artist must maintain a schedule like any other professional. When she's selling as fast as she can paint, the cost of each painting increases.
Conversely, a collector can rest assured that the price of a painting won't decrease when times are slow. Prices just don't increase during slower sales periods.
Multiple Item Discounts
Buy more than one piece of art from a gallery or Lindy's studio and you have every reason to ask for a small discount, and you'll likely get it! (Exceptions may occur on brand new art or pieces reserved for a show... sure, they are for sale, but don't expect a price break!)
Studio Sales
Visit the online studio store regularly to find the absolute best prices on available art. The image price will be the same as that of a comparable piece in one of Lindy's galleries, but in her studio you can sometimes find unframed pieces in sizes her galleries can't hang at the moment; older artwork that has cycled back from shows and that hasn't been repriced upwards yet; pieces matted or studio-framed for temporary display there. This is also the place to find Lindy's newest work, but you have to be there (or browsing online) to claim before it travels to the framer.
Frameable oversized greeting cards featuring Lindy's art retail for under $10. Check the studio store or email in your request for cards printed with your favorite Lindy painting. All cards are printed by the artist on heavy photo quality stock using Epson Claria inks for permanence and brilliant color. Each card is packaged in a resealable photo sleeve.
HYBRID PRINTS Available in limited quantities, by special order only:
colored pencil-enhanced mini-prints ("artist remarques")
Some of Lindy's pastels reproduce beautifully in small sizes (8" x 10" and 5" x 7") but they still don't have the punch of the originals. Using artist-grade colored pencils, Lindy can hand-retouch the prints she makes of these paintings. The HYBRID PRINT isn't an original, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a small print with this much color and detail. Besides that, each one is unique. Matted and sealed in an archival photo sleeve, the 8" x10" retails for $95, the 5" x 7" retails for $65. (Free Shipping.)
Not all paintings reproduce well, and some of the long panoramas must be cropped and reproduced in part. It's best to Email Lindy about the Hybrid Print potential of the painting you're interested in. (Hybrids aren't available thru the studio store.)
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The fine art of pricing paintings (and insights on how you might save some dollars)
Gallery Representation
An artist can't paint around too many distractions, such as constantly marketing their art. A gallery takes care of the selling end of things for the artist. A gallery has a significant overhead requiring a continuous flow of money. (Artists hate relationships based on that word, "money".) The gallery not only frees up the artist's time for creating; it allows the artist freedom to create without seeing dollar signs on the forehead of every person who walks in to admire their work.
The gallery more than earns the hefty cut they receive off each painting they sell.
ArtWork Size
Like most professional artists, Lindy Severns prices her work on a sliding scale by the square inch. Smaller pieces, such as her 3" x 5" miniatures cost more per square inch, as do very large pieces. (Tiny pastels demand intricate work and take proportionately longer to do. but their small square inch size makes them less expensive than say, a 9" x 12". Pastels over 28" in either dimension require a great deal more time and effort, from selecting the subject and preparing the canvas to transporting to the framer.) Most of Lindy's art falls somewhere in between, and you can roughly figure that a 12" x 18" painting will cost you about twice as much as a 12" x 9" piece. Collecting miniature originals, w
hich can be purchased unframed from the studio for as little as $125 is a smart way to hang original art on your walls.Medium
Lindy's oils and pastels of similar sizes are comparable in price. A large oil might be slightly more expensive because of the canvas or board it is on, but the higher cost of framing a pastel generally offsets this difference. All of Lindy's oils and all of her pastels are done on museum-grade, archival canvas or board of some kind.
Which takes the artist longer to do? Depends on the subject. Pastels are usually more time-intensive, although oils require a longer period of time on the easel to dry between applications of paint.
(Remember, you pay by size, not for the time involved in a given painting.) Pencil drawings are significantly less expensive, and sketchbook pages and field sketches make up the least pricey pieces of art in Lindy's portfolio.
Format
Most artists and galleries sincerely believe art shouldn't be priced out of reach. We want everyone to enjoy fine art, in some form or another. In Lindy's case, frameable greeting cards (available through the studio store and at gallery and museum gift shops) as well as miniature originals help make this possible. You might be interested in small (8" x 10" or smaller hand-printed, colored pencil-enhanced prints. Other than these small hand-printed sizes, Lindy doesn't reproduce her originals. The original you buy is a unique image that only you can hang and enjoy!
Framing
Framing costs vary by hundreds of dollars for the same size painting. And as the adage goes, you get what you pay for. Museum glass is more than triple the cost of regular glass, but it allows a view of your painting unobstructed by glare and distortion. (Another recommended other option is regular glass with UV protective glazing, or lightweight museum-grade acrylic. Never use non-glare glass over a pastel or it will fuzzy your image.)
Conservation framing means that nothing touches your painting that isn't acid-free, an assurance that your painting won't deteriorate with age.)
Buy the best frame package you can afford, but at the same time, don't hesitate to ask that a painting be transferred to a less expensive frame if that means the difference in owning it or not. And unframed art is the most affordable of all-- buy what you love while it's available, then save up for top-notch framing. (Lindy's pastel originals come in protective foamcore cases. They can sit there awhile and wait for the right frame.)
Supply and Demand and the Artist's Time Success plays a role in pricing. Paintings are unique creations. Each consumes great chunks of an artist's life. A big painting takes a bigger chunk of time. Appreciate that fact and the sometimes pricy tags on paintings make more sense.
Add the time spent traveling and researching a subject. Teaching and demonstrating sessions. Take into account the social engagements the artist misses. The meals she doesn't cook.
Working for yourself is still work. A serious artist must maintain a schedule like any other professional. When she's selling as fast as she can paint, the cost of each painting increases.
Conversely, a collector can rest assured that the price of a painting won't decrease when times are slow. Prices just don't increase during slower sales periods.
Multiple Item Discounts
Buy more than one piece of art from a gallery or Lindy's studio and you have every reason to ask for a small discount, and you'll likely get it! (Exceptions may occur on brand new art or pieces reserved for a show... sure, they are for sale, but don't expect a price break!)
Studio Sales
Visit the online studio store regularly to find the absolute best prices on available art. The image price will be the same as that of a comparable piece in one of Lindy's galleries, but in her studio you can sometimes find unframed pieces in sizes her galleries can't hang at the moment; older artwork that has cycled back from shows and that hasn't been repriced upwards yet; pieces matted or studio-framed for temporary display there. This is also the place to find Lindy's newest work, but you have to be there (or browsing online) to claim before it travels to the framer.
Frameable oversized greeting cards featuring Lindy's art retail for under $10. Check the studio store or email in your request for cards printed with your favorite Lindy painting. All cards are printed by the artist on heavy photo quality stock using Epson Claria inks for permanence and brilliant color. Each card is packaged in a resealable photo sleeve.
HYBRID PRINTS Available in limited quantities, by special order only:
colored pencil-enhanced mini-prints ("artist remarques")
Some of Lindy's pastels reproduce beautifully in small sizes (8" x 10" and 5" x 7") but they still don't have the punch of the originals. Using artist-grade colored pencils, Lindy can hand-retouch the prints she makes of these paintings. The HYBRID PRINT isn't an original, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a small print with this much color and detail. Besides that, each one is unique. Matted and sealed in an archival photo sleeve, the 8" x10" retails for $95, the 5" x 7" retails for $65. (Free Shipping.)
Not all paintings reproduce well, and some of the long panoramas must be cropped and reproduced in part. It's best to Email Lindy about the Hybrid Print potential of the painting you're interested in. (Hybrids aren't available thru the studio store.)
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