2013 is off to a wonderful start! I am excited to share all the below news with you! I hope your year is off to an amazing start as well! Art by Mail Fun and unique home décor made easy! I am pleased to offer ART BY MAIL, an art subscription service delivering artwork directly to your home. Art by Mail is a very affordable and fun way for art lovers to become art collectors. You can start your art collection with a new subscription or you can build upon your existing art collection. Every 3 months subscribers receive one art print to enjoy and keep, or give as a gift to family or friends. After your first year's subscription you will own 4 art prints, which can be hung individually or as a collection. Learn more & purchase your subscription here.
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I am pleased to offer ART BY MAIL, an art subscription service delivering artwork directly to your home. Art by Mail is a very affordable and fun way for art lovers to become art collectors. You can start your art collection with a new subscription or you can build upon your existing art collection. Every 3 months subscribers receive one art print to enjoy and keep, or give as a gift to family, friends or colleagues. Subscribers receive high quality prints worth much more than the subscription cost. After your first year's subscription you will own 4 art prints, which can be hung individually or as a collection. Mail made fun! A beautiful surprise! A visual delight! Purchase your subscription here. 5x7 inch prints 1 print per quarter 4 prints per year delivered directly to you $50.00 Purchase this subscription here. 8x10 inch prints 1 print per quarter 4 prints per year delivered directly to you $80.00 Purchase this subscription here. 11x14 inch prints 1 print per quarter 4 prints per year delivered directly to you $120.00 Purchase this subscription here. 16x20 inch prints 1 print per quarter 4 prints per year delivered directly to you $150.00 Purchase this subscription here. 20x24 inch prints 1 print per quarter 4 prints per year delivered directly to you $200.00 Purchase this subscription here. How does it work? Purchase your subscription above, and you will receive your 1st print in March, followed by 3 more prints throughout the year. What type of prints will I receive? Chromogenic Photographic Prints. Printed with a traditional photographic process on real photographic paper, Kodak Endura Professional Paper. Print surfaces include Lustre, Glossy, Matte and Metallic. What size are the prints? You choose. 5x7 inches, 8x10 inches, 11x14 inches, 16x20 inches or 20x24 inches. Are the prints signed? Yes. Which images will I receive? It’s a surprise! Always artwork by Natasha Bacca. Always high quality. Can I give Art by Mail as a gift? Yes! Art by Mail makes a wonderful gift for weddings, birthdays, housewarming gifts and more. When you subscribe, simply put the recipients name and address in the “to” fields for shipping. What is the shipping cost? Shipping is free in the US. International orders contact me for pricing. When are prints shipped? Prints are shipped in March, June, September and December. When is the deadline to sign up? February 21, 2013. (This is so I can ship your 1st print on March 1, 2013.) I have a question that is not answered here. Contact me and I will gladly answer it. Sample "before & after" rooms: Thank you for viewing!
If you have questions or comments I would love to hear them. Much love to you all! ♥ Natasha If you offer me a bottle of wine, I will gladly drink it to your health and create you a customized photogram of it. Penfolds Grange 11x14 inches Collection of The Artist I first drank (vintage 1997) Penfolds Grange in 2003. My twin brother, Nick, gave it to me as a gift. He picked it up while in Australia and casually said it was recommended as a good wine. One day I grabbed the bottle while on my way to Heavenly Mountain Ski Resort with my husband (then boyfriend), Tony. While on a ski lift, we opened the bottle and noted the amazing bouquet. We poured the wine into paper cups and noted the beautiful color. Taking our first sip we were amazed by the rich and complex flavors. As it is described on one website, “Penfolds Grange is a wine of extraordinary dimension and power. Richly textured, intensely concentrated and packed with fruit sweetness... Immensely complex, beguiling wines that seduce the senses.” Later that day Tony returned from the restroom explaining he dropped and broke the bottle losing the last quarter of the remaining wine; but he salvaged the cork so we could look up the wine when we returned home. Upon searching we quickly realized we could not afford another bottle of Penfolds Grange which retailed for over $400. Our amusement at losing a bottle of wine on a ski resort bathroom floor turned to disappointed when we understood that over $100. worth of wine was lost; but we were grateful for the wine we were able to enjoy and for Nick’s incredible generosity. We remembered the bottle fondly, and to our fortune Nick gifted me another bottle in 2005 when I completed my Master’s Degree. We saved the bottle for years, and finally drank it in 2011 to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. This bottle is lovingly displayed in our kitchen. One day I took the bottle down to my studio and created the above photogram of it. I love wine and I thought a series of wine photograms might be interesting, but I did not have much inspiration for variety within the series. I also love trading my artwork, and I thought trading people wine for a customized photogram of the bottle they gave me could be fun. So I began The Wine Project. For each piece in the series the participant gave me a bottle of wine. Most participants chose a bottle they enjoyed and wanted me to try, or they chose a bottle with an interesting design element in the label. This has allowed me to try many excellent and unique wines I would not have otherwise explored. I gladly drank each bottle of wine to the participant’s health, and then created them a customized photogram of it. The most interesting aspect of the series has been the input given by each participant, and the way the series continues to develop because of the creativity of so many people involved. Some participants gave very specific requests, while others left most of the design to me. Some participants preferred simple compositions, while others preferred more busy compositions; one participant decided to make the composition horizontal. Some bottles came from local retailers, some from select wineries, and some were shipped from the East Coast. Some of the artworks were displayed in homes, and some were given as gifts. The two latest pieces in the series are shown here: This piece was requested “blue-ish, teal-ish, with seashells.” I add the swirly background for more depth and a wave like effect. This collector also has another piece with a similar swirly background. This piece was requested “blue-ish, teal-ish, with peacock feathers.” I added more color for variety and contrast. This participant’s last name begins with the letter M. My process is carried out in darkness on photographic paper. In the darkness I feel my way around the paper, carefully placing objects and shining light over them. Once the photographic paper is exposed and processed it is complete. I cannot adjust anything afterward or go back over an area as a painter would on canvas. So I work with many pieces of photo paper before completing the final artwork. These are known as preliminary sketches to painters and test strips to photographers. The following 6 preliminary sketches are available for $25. each. Each image is a unique print so get the one-and-only piece while you can! If you want to purchase one simply be the first person to post a comment with the title and it is yours! Then send me a message at [email protected]. Click on the images to enlarge and see titles and sizes. Currently, The Wine Project is being offered at 50% off of retail price & minus the cost of the bottle of wine. If you are interested in commissioning a piece in The Wine Project series send me a message at [email protected]. Purchase wine prints here. Other pieces in The Wine Project series: (Click on the images to enlarge and see in slideshow format.) Nick passed away almost 4 years ago, making the Penfolds Grange bottle an even more memorable keepsake of his love and kindness for me and my family. The second Penfolds Grange photogram (above center) was created for our mom. Thank you for viewing! If you have questions or comments I would love to hear them. Much love to you all! ♥ Natasha This lovely aspen tree in the front yard of my Bend, OR home has been the subject of many of my photograms. As it grows, it recently began brushing against the house causing undesirable noises and damage. My husband cut a significant portion of the tree down, and it easily became the subject for my 1st artworks of 2013. The detached branch measures approximately 4 feet wide by 7 feet long. This is much larger than my photographic paper, making it possible to find many different compositions within it. I got this grand stack of photographic paper on Craigslist for only $75.00! It is well worth over $1000.00. I am most excited about the various and random sizes that I would not have otherwise invested in. So, I delved into this stack for the 1st time and was pleased with the quality and outcome. Because I work in darkness, my process can be difficult to document. I took these photographs as an example of what I do and what the process looks like while creating these images. I expose various colors of light (LEDs) over the aspen branch in various locations of the photographic paper. Because photographic paper is designed for a negative, I use the opposite color of what I want the final outcome to be. And like paint, as the colors layer over one another new colors are made. These are the results: artwork + detail (Click on the images to enlarge and see in slideshow format.) Thank you for viewing!
If you have questions or comments I would love to hear them. Much love to you all! ♥ Natasha I attended an art marketing webinar yesterday presented by Jason Horejs of Zanadu Gallery and Barney Davey, and I was convinced I need to have a blog. I have long dismissed the idea as I feel more confident sharing images than words and simply do not want to take on another tool / task. But great points were made by well respected individuals. One benefit of a blog is that it is more dynamic than a static website, ever changing and updating in chronological order. As Andrew Bryant says in his article Why artists need a blog, “Dialogue is what art is all about, it’s what life is about… about artists having a conversation.”
On my blog I invite you to join me in conversation. BLOGGERS: Why do you blog? What are the benefits and enjoyment you receive from blogging? Do you have any tips about blogging? BLOG READERS: What blogs do you read? And why? What do you find most engaging about blogs? Do you interact (comment) regularly on the blogs you read? Much love to you all! ♥ Natasha |
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