Jason,
Thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate them!
The Matty isn't up on the website yet, as I haven't been able to get it updated. Normally, I have a friend who handles all of that for me, but he's been super busy as of late. Actually, I've just started teaching myself how to do eveything without his help, so hopefully soon, the site will get fixed. Aside from the Matty, I actually have about 5-6 other paintings that need to go up on there.
In regards to prints, as of right now, I don't have any plans to go that route. My agent and I have weighed the pros and cons of the whole idea for almost two years now, and I think in the end, we'd just like to stick with originals. I remember when I was at the National this summer, I went to a booth that had lithos of artists like Bill Purdom, Stephen Holland, and others. I think it was called 'Art of the Stars' or something like that. Anywho, the owner of the booth/company was trying his best to reel me into his cavalcade of stars, and I just got really turned off to the whole idea. Maybe he was just really sleazy. For whatever reason, I just felt like if I was doing the same thing, my name and work would be lost in the shuffle, and it would just be another product for them to sell, if that makes any sense. I just really liked the idea of collectors having original, one-of-a-kind paintings, that would never be reproduced or done again.
At the same time, to sell lithos and prints of this kind of stuff artwork legally, it would require a large amount of legal red tape to jump over with all of the intellectual property issues and what not. MLB, MLBPA, the estates of the dead players and plenty of other people would need to be paid in order to for me not to worry about anything going wrong with a lawsuit.
Of course, if anything changes, I'll certainly let you and other members know the moment it happens.
Thanks again,
Graig
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