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Update #1: How I got the commission for the watercolor
I painted Cleveland Tower (the image on the left) in 2006 and then placed it on Wikipedia. Renovations were just finishing up in the basement of the Graduate College, and someone yoinked my painting for an invitation to students. Someone at the Graduate School saw the picture when the Dean of the Graduate School was preparing to send out his Christmas cards to alumni.
I hope I can use the public domain and copyleft as something of a self-sustaining income source.
- Release artwork into public domain or copyleft on my website to
- To attract viewers, including people interested in funding more public domain and copyleft releases
- Use kickstarter.com to give these people a way to fund releases of my work into the public domain and copyleft
- Repeat from top
In other words "I want to be PBS."
The idea would be to keep adding new viewers interested in free art so as to avoid burning out the original audience.
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3 giclee greeting cards signed by the artist. Fine art paper folded to 5.5x8.5" half-letter format.
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Giclee on Epson 8.5x11" paper signed by artist.
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My time as a young researcher in physics inspires many of my pieces. I create impressions of nature, illustrate scientific concepts, and paint buildings of scholarship. My art reveals learning processes: nature paints perceptions, we frame its art in conceptual boxes, and we gather ourselves in the boxes of the academy.
My published scientific illustrations include a figure in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I was commissioned for a watercolor Princeton University printed on Christmas cards sent to 2500 graduate alumni. The English Wikipedia’s front page has featured my watercolor of Cleveland Tower as “Picture of the Day."
Born in Red Bank, NJ and raised in California, I paint scenery from both States and from frequent travel. I received a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA and an M.A. in Physics from Princeton University.
