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8 Years Ago
is that the front or the back?
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
we aren't appraisers, and even if we were, there is nothing that image could tell us. real, fake, back, front, etc. you need to bring it to an appraiser so they can see it in person.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
I realize that. I was just trying to figure out if it was worth hauling around and taking the chance of damaging it. It is big and not the easiest to transport. 54 x 42
8 Years Ago
i'd call around first. at the very least get some good lighting on it. it really looks like the back. thing is, we are all artists trying to sell things, not too many of us are art experts except for our own things. there really isn't enough detail in there to know what it is.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
i always thought he just wrote books.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
i typed in stephen king painting in google... funny results.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
You might find this page interesting:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/stephen-king.html?page=1
8 Years Ago
maybe it was one of the first screamers. where you would stare at it for a long time and then like a pop up book, a monster jumps out at you....
but its really hard to tell, from this lighting it looks like a brown paper bag. or actually it looks more like when you place photos together and the paper it was touching sort of makes a negative into the paper. that's the impression i'm getting here. i see the negative of a fence, and a tree and maybe some buildings, really hard to tell. if you can bring it outside, carefully, or get window light on it, and not incandescent, maybe that would make it easier.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
It's a tree, fence, distant bushes and then skyline to my eye.
It kind of looks like it might be some sort of alternative photographic process rather then a painting. Not a cyanotype but something similar.
8 Years Ago
It's on canvas and its very textured. What I see is a tree then a pond then skyscrapers.
I cant get but one picture on here at a time so I just keep editing my initial post and changing the picture.
8 Years Ago
still its very faint. you can join imgur for free and post it there. or create an account and post it that way. plus the thread will lock after 24 hours so you can't change it. but still we can't really ID that thing, even if there was an expert the details are so faint and noisy we can't really see anything. a cell phone isn't a great way to capture things and you just don't have enough light on it.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
A head-on shot would at least show what you're looking at. Right now it's top-down and all I'm seeing is the frame edges with shiny rectangles of paint in between. Can you back up enough to shoot the main part of the canvas? Now I'm curious to actually see what it is.
8 Years Ago
That's pretty funny. Great camera angle! LOL!
I'm pretty sure you could get a couple of bucks for the frame at a yard sale...!!
8 Years Ago
Lisa - use photobucket. Upload pics onto that, then cut and paste the html code provided by them into this thread.
8 Years Ago
Lisa:
I apologize if this wasn't a joke. I can't see the painting at all, just shiny areas, the way you photographed it... plus it looks like it's mounted on the ceiling as if it's in a haunted house... so I assumed you were kidding.
8 Years Ago
i have to say that with all the images you've posted thus far, i can't see a single one of these helping us or you at all. i still say contact an appraiser, either way you will have to bring it down there personally. they can tell you if it worth your time or not or if at the very least what the ball park figure is. if they say its only worth a $100 in any condition then you have your answer. if they say it could be worth a million then its worth getting help bringing it over. personally, based on the images thus far, it looked like it had water damage or something. its very faded looking.
and the phone shot, lack of lighting, angles shown isn't helping a lot here.
and plus we still aren't appraisers and can't possibly give you any kind of answer because this is only an image of an item.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
Lisa
Nobody on this site can help you with this at all.
You must take the image to an appraiser who is not online. Nobody can tell in a forum anything about authenticity and even in most cases even medium.
Please take it to an appraiser. People here are artists.
8 Years Ago
looking at that image i would say - that's a close up of a microchip.
though to me that first name - doesn't look like stephen. the last name looks like king though. i would think that first letter is an A. maybe a clear closeup of the name should be done first to make sure your chasing down the right person.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
Stephen King has his own website and discussion board a very active one. The people there can help you . Very nice bunch actually.
8 Years Ago
The author's signature: http://bookrevue.com/images/eeKingSignature.JPG
8 Years Ago
i didn't think the author painted, but the signature isn't at all the same in that. and the person posted in this thread signs it as S king. so its not him.
see if you can get a really good clear shot of the name, use the flash if you have to. just try to avoid glare.
---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
Thank you art by Elaine...if you have a link that would be great. Other than that admin asked me to go somewhere else with this because yall are artists not appraisers. I should've reworded my title to looking for artistic opinions about this painting. If anyones interested into what I find out you're more than welcome to email me at mjones11565@gmail.com and I will update you. Thanks for your time.
I'm trying to find the signature for the New Zealand oil painter named Stephen King
8 Years Ago
Www.Stephenking.com and at the top there's a link to message board. There you can meet miss mod. She's a personal assistant to mister king. If she can help she will. If not she will tell you. Good luck.
8 Years Ago
I did a bit of research - the name does appear to be Stephen - it's the last name I'm unsure of. However the artwork of Stephen Kaye, does bear a close resemblence.
8 Years Ago
http://stephenking.co.nz/
This is the New Zealand oil painter...
Just contact him and ask if its his signature. I doubt it is based on his other work.
8 Years Ago
Thanks Jason I will look into that. Thanks Heather....thats about all I could find on the nz painter. I joined the Stephen King (writer) forum to see if I could find out anything there and I'm waiting to hear from the moderator. Thank you to all of yall who have been supportive and positive in this discussion. AnD to those who weren't so nice I just hope you dont have children in school who are bullied or picked on because I dont know how you would be able to handle that kind of situation.
8 Years Ago
Heather if it were that easy for me ito figure out how to"just contact" these artists, trust me I would. I'm not too internet savvy. Thanks for the photo bucket instructions.......I was about to pull my hair out!! Any other suggestions greatly appreciated.
8 Years Ago
Nobody here has not been nice and definitely not bullying.
They have told you that we cannot appraise the work here and that your images were not good enough to actually make anything out on. Both are just facts.
8 Years Ago
To contact artists, if you know their name, most living professional artists have websites, mainly to sell their art. Most artists' websites have information on how to contact them.
You can Google search the artist name, and most of the time if the artist has a website, it will show up. You can also look at the website to see if the artist makes art that looks kind of like the painting you have -- obviously if the artist is only showing stained glass or pottery, you probably found the website of a different artist with the same name.
For artists on FineArtAmerica, you can search by "Artist Name" on the FAA homepage "Search" link at the top. Click on Keyword, and it gives you some choices, click on Artist Name. There is a Private Message link on each of our Fine Art America websites, the link works the same way email does.
For basic information on living or dead artists (famous ones), you can try Wickipedia.
Abbie isn't being mean. We really can't appraise work here. Even if one of us happens to know a lot about the art/artist you showed us, we can't tell from what we can see on our computer screens whether it's an original, a print, a work of art by the artist, or a forgery. We also can't tell what condition the painting is in. All of the above affect the value of the artwork. A knowledgeable person needs to see the art in person. If you want to get a very general sense of what your art may be worth, you could try looking for art by this artist on EBay, and see what it's going for on the EBay auctions -- if there is enough of this person's art around for it to show up on EBay.
8 Years Ago
Did anybody notice Jason's post, "I did a bit of research - the name does appear to be Stephen - it's the last name I'm unsure of. However the artwork of Stephen Kaye, does bear a close resemblence."
I checked out Stephen Kaye images on Google, and Jason could well be right.