That's insane! I mean, its fantastic for the artist that it sold for so much, but who in their right mind spends that much for one piece of furry art? O_o

Huh. Oh, well. At least someone's supporting furry art!

Um, no, excuse me. I misspoke. Someone's supporting technically very fine representational furry fantasy illustration. That's a differnt' thang, y'all. Now, I love Dutch Masters banquet still lifes - another fairly stylized genre, and they have some depth to them. In some ways they have a lot more action (yes, action!) and depth than some of this stuff does.

I mean, fuck, those really huge lush just-like-life(!) photorealistic illos of A Wolf, Soulful! are fine to look at for five or ten minutes, but you hang one of these enormous things up in your house and all of a sudden the decor skews toward, um, a furry version of 'middle eastern dictator bachelor pad', y'know? Airbrush, bawpachika. Not to knock it, but, well, this kind of illo style I expect to see gracing T-shirts of the sort one usually sees worn by really unkempt fat people.

It's just the lack of depth in external referents, I guess. Maybe this stuff is 'rich in specific native American imagery' that I am too ignorant to appreciate. I could really groove on it if they put 'em in suits - straight 18th century portraiture is amazing stuff, but there are *details* in the portraits that tell a bit about the person being painted.. Even if someone did something totally cliche' like riffing off American Gothic.... Or the Dewey-defeats-Truman picture; I'd kill for a furry version of that. But just floating in space, whoa, idealized landscape, a few feathers, so soulful... just leaves me blank.

Good thing, I guess, 'cause I can actually afford what I think of as the good stuff 'cause I don't gotta bid against whatever yutzen like these so well.

Of course, the recurring question has been, how can Lance Rund afford $10,000+ to spend on furry art at cons, but he can't re-print ASB? ... I could answer that, but I won't. :^)

For the record, the picture that sold actually had a background.

Oh, I'll have a crack at it: He doesn't think he'll make money by reprinting it & a bigass painting on his wall stores better than a cubic yard of unsold issues packed away in the hall closet?

I wonder how you PAY for something like that. Just write a check, or a massive credit limit on the plastic? Wouldn't the card company get suspicious of both the con and the cardholder?

Yeah, last year's background was sorta blurred for a popout effect that I thought was neat. And fuck, for $10K you damn well better get a background.

Impressive.

I just got that story from a friend's e-mail who is attending F.C. So it's for real?. Geez H. Kris,... and i just busted my n*tz for two and a half weeks and 40 illustrations for one quarter of that amount (*Cries*)

I am mystified as to why this mediocre, cliched crap sells for so much. The artist has a sketchy grasp of anatomy but knows how to render fur.

I think you answered your own question.

I can't speak to the anatomy - it looks okay enough to me, and, well, look, it's fantasy. But the artist can render fur and has got tricks like blurring the background of the Vantage Point picture which makes the foreground figure really pop out, bzamp.

It's big, and showy, and the *natural progression* of your standard Terry Smith/Michele Light stuff people were all swoony over in '97. That's what you bought when you were 27; this is what you buy when you're 34.

Glad to hear you're having fun... but enjoy the warm sun while you can - there'll be several inches of snow waiting for you when you return ;)

It was Lance Rund vs Flint Otterhall. Lance took it with 10k.

Oi Oi Oi.