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Really worth getting yourself to a gallery. Painting is applying pigment to a page using a liquid which then dries after it has been applied. This liquid could

Really worth getting yourself to a gallery. Painting is applying pigment to a page using a liquid which then dries after it has been applied. This liquid could be water (for watercolours), an acrylic polymer compound (for acrylic paints) or linseed oil (for oil paints). The liquid used has its own properties which mean you can achieve different styles and textures. For instance, water colours absorb into the paper and spread out. Oil paints are very thick and slow drying. You can layer up the paint, and even crave back through it revealing different layers. It is common to use pallet knives and spatulas to work in oil aswell as brushes. Some artists even create work where the paint is centimetres thick on the canvas - creating work which is more of a relief than a painting. Because you have this texture, the light interacts with the paint differently to a printed photoshop filter. There will be highlights and shadows as the light hits the painting from an angle, as you move your perspective these will change too. You can even mix paint so that pigment is more dilute and the paint ends up slightly translucent or pearlescent, this can make parts of the canvas almost glow under the right light. There is a lot more to oil paintings than just a photoshop filter.

dkrich 10y ago
And there's really no comparison between the leather in a Rolls Royce Phantom and the leather in a Honda Accord, and yet somehow Honda moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year. My question was not a refutation of the claim that original oil paintings are superior to prints. It was rather an honest attempt to understand the market opportunity of a business and whether the OP believes that a market for prints exists. However that attempt seemingly gave way to a forum for people here to show how much they know about art. Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries. I actually live less than a half mile from one. I do not dispute that there is a difference between a Francis Bacon and a Photoshop reproduction of a vacation photo from my phone. My question was how the OP figured out that making clear that the picture was not a filter and was produced by a real person was an important feature of the service. I give up.
- gm-conspiracy 10y ago
  Why are you so openly hostile to everyone being confused by your inability to differentiate between the output of a 2D printer and the 3D texture of an oil painting?
- angus-prune 10y ago
  I honestly can't tell when you're being sarcastic, when you're trolling and when you honestly aren't getting something. The market you seem to think doesn't exist absolutely does. It has been well served for well over a decade, in regional malls and more recently online. What the OP is offering is a service above and beyond what can be achieved with a quick photoshop filter and a large format printer. They are trying to communicate that his product is qualitatively different from this - a unique, handmade piece of art. That is their entire value proposition. This isn't about trying to produce a knock-off of a photoshop filter with cheap Chinese labour.
  - gm-conspiracy 10y ago
    So, I assume this (dkrich) is what the OP is talking about, when he mentions difficulty explaining "it is a real painting!"
- teh_klev 10y ago
  So here you say: > Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries. Yet you claimed: >No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is. and asked: >Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly? Src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067 How does claim to one visit "many, many world class art galleries" yet not know what an oil painting is? I think you're just trolling now.
  - tempestn 10y ago
    I read the "No, never" and motor oil lines as sarcasm, especially considering the latter part of that post.

dkrich 10y ago

And there's really no comparison between the leather in a Rolls Royce Phantom and the leather in a Honda Accord, and yet somehow Honda moves hundreds of thousands of vehicles a year. My question was not a refutation of the claim that original oil paintings are superior to prints. It was rather an honest attempt to understand the market opportunity of a business and whether the OP believes that a market for prints exists. However that attempt seemingly gave way to a forum for people here to show how much they know about art. Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries. I actually live less than a half mile from one. I do not dispute that there is a difference between a Francis Bacon and a Photoshop reproduction of a vacation photo from my phone. My question was how the OP figured out that making clear that the picture was not a filter and was produced by a real person was an important feature of the service. I give up.

gm-conspiracy 10y ago
Why are you so openly hostile to everyone being confused by your inability to differentiate between the output of a 2D printer and the 3D texture of an oil painting?
angus-prune 10y ago
I honestly can't tell when you're being sarcastic, when you're trolling and when you honestly aren't getting something. The market you seem to think doesn't exist absolutely does. It has been well served for well over a decade, in regional malls and more recently online. What the OP is offering is a service above and beyond what can be achieved with a quick photoshop filter and a large format printer. They are trying to communicate that his product is qualitatively different from this - a unique, handmade piece of art. That is their entire value proposition. This isn't about trying to produce a knock-off of a photoshop filter with cheap Chinese labour.
- gm-conspiracy 10y ago
  So, I assume this (dkrich) is what the OP is talking about, when he mentions difficulty explaining "it is a real painting!"
teh_klev 10y ago
So here you say: > Let me be clear- I have been to many, many world class art galleries. Yet you claimed: >No, never. I just asked about it because I heard the term once a long time ago, but to be honest I'm note even sure what an oil painting is. and asked: >Is it like the same thing they put in engines to make them run smoothly? Src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800067 How does claim to one visit "many, many world class art galleries" yet not know what an oil painting is? I think you're just trolling now.
- tempestn 10y ago
  I read the "No, never" and motor oil lines as sarcasm, especially considering the latter part of that post.