A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from a woman in Alberta who had visited Discovery Wildlife Park and bought some prints for one of her sons. She told me their other son had a thing for foxes, cheetahs and wolves, and asked if I do custom pieces. She wanted them as Christmas gifts.
As regular followers know, I do take commissions, but I have a long wait list right now. Because of those commitments, I’ve realized I likely can’t take on anything new for about a year. Even without the wait list, I couldn’t paint anything before Christmas this season.
I do take suggestions for new animals and add them to my list, but I might not get to the one somebody wants for a long time.
In this case, though, I was happy to tell her that I already had a cheetah and a fox. Since I’m always painting new animals, I have to retire prints from production now and then. But I can still reprint older images on request. They just cost a little more because they’re custom one-offs and they take a bit longer to arrive since everything is professionally printed.
I sent her previews of the fox and cheetah and she loved them. I quoted her a price. Since I was ordering anyway, she asked if she could change the sizes to match the mats and frames she had in mind. And since the fox and cheetah were custom sizes, she asked for a custom size of my Wolf painting as well, rather than one I had in stock.
The three prints arrived last Friday, 11″x14″ giclée prints on cotton rag paper without the usual white border, printed by the same company that does my metal and canvas work. They looked great and I signed and shipped them on Monday.
So if you ever want a print of a retired image, I can make that happen. I can also print any image I’ve created on giclée paper, canvas or metal, in a variety of sizes, framed or unframed.
If you ever want to talk about it, drop me a line.
Cheers,
Patrick
