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Piece for Submission to the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open Exhibition
Hello all.
I'm planning to submit this small portrait of my mother for consideration for the RSA's annual open exhibition in Edinburgh. The sitter is my mum. She came all the way down from Inverness for the weekend just to sit for a portrait, as I was struggling to work from a combination of a small colour study and a black and white photograph of her, neither of which were very much good. We started yesterday morning and finished at about lunchtime today, and off she went up the road again at twenty to six. All critiques are greatly appreciated, although I'm not likely to do any more work on it without my sitter present. I was also hoping someone might be able to give me a little advice as to pricing (The RSA stipulates that all submissions must be made available for sale). I just don't know what price to put, given that I am basically a complete nobody: I have never sold a piece of work or exhibited anything publicly (at least, not since high school). What do you think is a reasonable price to ask? I promise not to be offended. Also, since I sort of don't want to sell this, what are peoples' thoughts on the idea of putting an unreasonable price on a piece of work to deter buyers? I know that sounds daft, but if I could enter it without putting it for sale, I would.
Anyway the painting is (imaginatively) titled "Portrait of Winifred MacKenzie" and is painted in oil in canvas (12' x 10').
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