Notes from the studio

Buying, hanging and living with erotic art

Buying erotic art and not sure where to start? Honest answers on choosing a painting, where it goes on your wall and what arrives at your door.

57 articles ▪ written in the studio in Boekel

Where to start

Buying erotic artStart here if you are still deciding. Three articles on what you are buying, what it costs, and how to tell a studio from a print farm. How the work is madeOil on canvas, one painter, several weeks a canvas. What happens between a photograph and a finished painting. Living with the workYou have the painting, or you nearly do. Four articles on which room, how high, what size, and what arrives at your door. The women in Painted IdolsTwenty-three canvases, fourteen named women. The whole series, grouped by subject, with the ones painted more than once together. Prints and editionsThe €35 end of the studio. What a signed edition is, and how it differs from the canvas it came from.

The newest

A single nail left in a bare plaster wall, fresh dust below it, the nail circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words three days, then this, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artWhat happens after you click buy A small stack of uncoated printmaking sheets on an oak table with a graphite pencil across them, the pencil on the stack circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words worth what the signer is worth, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artWhat a certificate of authenticity is, and what it is not Five stretched canvases of different sizes standing in a row, all turned face to the wall, the largest canvas in the row circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words this is the whole studio, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artAffordable original erotic art under €1000 A bright apartment living room with a slate blue sideboard and a dusty pink chair, the empty wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words two questions, not one, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artChoosing erotic art together with your partner A flat cardboard shipping box leaning against a wall, still taped shut, the flat shipping box circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words can they hang it, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artErotic art as a gift: how not to get it wrong A living room with a dark honed stone wall along its length and a stone grey sofa, the empty stone wall circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words nobody knows, including me, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artDoes erotic art hold its value? A closed notebook with a pen across it on a studio table, a canvas standing edge-on behind, the closed notebook circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words a judgement, not a sum, by Willem van der Krieken Buying erotic artWhat an original erotic oil painting costs, and why A wooden palette with skin tones at one side and a pool of blue-black at the other, a fine liner brush across it, the pool of blue-black circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words the ink is the subject, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsTattooed and inked: the canvases where the ink is the subject Five stretched canvases of different sizes standing in a row, all turned face to the wall, where two of the canvases overlap circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words the words overlap, they do not, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsAlt, inked, pin-up: what the words mean A mobile phone lying face down on a paint-stained studio table, the phone lying face down circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words she stopped me mid-scroll, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsWhy these women, and not a life model Two blank sheets of photographic paper on a studio table, one overlapping the other, the overlap of the two sheets circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words two rights, one image, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsPainting someone from a photograph: two rights on one image A mobile phone lying face down on a paint-stained studio table, the phone lying face down circled in open black marker, an arrow from the handwritten words telling, not asking, by Willem van der Krieken The women in Painted IdolsDo the women know? What I write to them, and what I do not ask

What is holding you up?