#10: "The Door is Locked"
This artwork sold Ebay with a starting price of $1 and went for $36 here:
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Model is Sarah R. 6x8" One-of-a-kind ambrotype on opaque black glass, mounted in permanent oak box with ebony keyed corners. All work including glass cutting, chemistry, photography, box-building and finishing by Marcus Ranum. You can make all the digital prints you like from the scan of the plate, but there is only and ever will only be one glass plate carrying this image.
For more information on ambrotypes wikipedia has a pretty good description of the process here:
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Sta.sh
I have always really admired your work and I am thrilled to see this variation on your usual studio work. I would love to see you do workshops, then again...I no longer live in PA so...I wouldn't get to come.
If you're ever back in PA, let me know! I travel a lot so I can't ever be sure I'll be home, but you're welcome to visit.
ps. I wish I can practice in that ambrotype process. does it expansive nowadays?
Just created an eBay account just to bid on this. Having problems though... :-|
Kept saying I got outbid as soon as I bid. And then... I looked... and I had 4 bids in a row!
Suppose there is an item at $10
I want it pretty badly so I bid $100
Ebay will set the high bid at $11 (because that puts my bid ahead of the current $10 but not all the way to as high as I was willing to go)
Now, you come along and bid $50 for it
Ebay will set the high bid to your $50 but then automatically (since I bid $100) raises my bid to $51 to cover it.
It's pretty cool the way Ebay works. The main thing to remember with bidding is (unless you want to get obsessive compulsive about it) bid what you're willing to go and then walk away. If you win, you win. Some people try to sneak in bids at the last minute (they're called 'snipers') but it really doesn't change anything unless someone is bidding less than they are willing to pay.
Thanks for bidding on my artwork!
Well, good job. It's beautiful!