Art sale / more art info coming in about five days.
Hello friends! Anda here, (the owner) talking you through these coffees and art.
First, it took forever, but the paintings are finally available for sale. There are streetscapes, cityscapes, and abstract paintings in watercolors, acrylics on canvas, and mixed media. Rather than auction them, we've bumped the sale price up by $200 each (e.g. from $900 to $1100), and in a week the price will drop back down on whatever paintings remain.
We're also doing archival quality Giclee prints. Reproductions are on thick, premium, acid free 19 point watercolor paper, printed with pigment-based inks. The prints are designed to last a century, and may even outlast the originals.
But, there's bad news and good news. For the reproductions, both prints and greeting cards, it was really, really hard to match colors perfectly. In fact, we never quite pulled it off and there's slight color shifting. That's the bad news.
The good news is the prints are GORGEOUS, and they're so nice they make your fingers tingle. When you hold it, you'll probably think you're holding the original. Additionally, because we had to do multiple print runs (hence the months of delay) we have two announcements:
- If you buy greeting cards, we'll include an extra card or a few from those extra print runs. Our mistake is your win.
- For the reproduction prints, we aim to do a home trial. When you buy a print I will reach out individually, and can send multiple prints to make sure you get something you love. Send back what you don't want, even if that's all of them.
What I thought would be simple—buy some Yemeni art, sell some Yemeni art—became a four-month undertaking. Next year, this will go much smoother, and we'll even do an art show in DC.
$$$ Mazher, the artist, will receive half the sales price of the paintings and reproductions. (I've already sent him about 25% of the sales price back in September). If you purchase during the initial sale, he'll additionally receive 100% of that $200 price bump. That means if you purchase an $1100 watercolor he receives $650, which I will send to him by MoneyGram, which he picks up himself in Sana'a.
The sale of the greeting cards will go towards doing this bigger and better next year.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. I'm sending an email at the end of the week exclusively about the art. There's much more to say about his paintings so consider this the "short" email. And I'll post a blog article mid week plus a video of Mazher narrating his art.
(scroll down to see the rest of the paintings—and a coffee story)
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