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Portrait Sketch Artist Tom Halverson
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Portrait sketch artist, Tom Halverson's studio and gallery are located at the Paul Bunyan Mall in the first city on the Mississippi River, Bemidji, Minnesota. He has been a professional illustrator of Christian school books for Bob Jones University Press and Accelerated Christian Education. Book covers he has painted include "The Treasure of Pelican Cove", "Brave the Wild Trail", and "Abandoned". Tom's greatest love is realistic portraiture in oils, acrylics and charcoal/pencil. He has completed an accurate estimate of 9,000 portraits primarily of children. Tom is the inventor of the Instant Two-Dimensional Proportion Analyzer and Enlarging Caliper (EC i2dpa) which is a training tool for freehand sketch artists (see "Opaque Projector Eliminator Freehand Tool"). Other popular inventions include the "Wood Packer", "The Multi-Jar Non-Electric Vacuum Sealing Pump", "Cross-Fire Stovetop" and "The Forge Cooker".My Philosophy
Tom believes that artwork drawn freehand using one's divine gifts and talent developed through intense practice, is much more valuable than drawings manufactured by using projectors and tracing techniques (for the same reasons a genuine pearl is more valuable than a plastic copy). It is rare because of how it was made. Therefore, Tom has foregone using tracing techniques and projectors. Instead he uses a few point-to-point caliper measurements to size and position his art and draws freehand to guarantee his clients a genuine work of art! T. Halverson is using Ebay in a new way that will made a historic mark upon the art world. T. Halverson may become a world famous artist for being the first artist to ever auction off his studio time to the world at large. He believes auctioning studio time is the ART TREND OF THE FUTURE as outrageous portrait art prices are replaced by realistic demand prices. Auctioning studio time will be good for artists because they will discover the true worth of their work to the souls of the world, as well as keep the artists busy in their studio! Bidding for studio time will also be good for patrons of art as really good artists become more accessible to them financially. Tom's strategy begins in his imagination as he asks himself, "What would I like to draw for someone?" Maybe a cute baby in a bonnet like a photo he saw in a magazine once. Next Tom will seek out that very experience by listing his quested portrait with an auction title like SKETCH YOUR OWN BABY-IN-A-BONNET PHOTO? The result? All the Mom's in the world who have taken a photo of their baby in a bonnet who just happen to be shopping for a bonnet on Ebay can bid on the opportunity to have Tom sketch their photo. Next, Tom ponders what is the minimum bid he would be willing to draw a baby in a bonnet for. Certainly it would be less than he would be willing to draw a baby with cake on his face, because it's a lot less work. How many baby in a bonnet photos are out there just begging to be sketched? After sketching 10 or 12 babies in bonnets, Tom might be dying to draw a puppy on a blanket instead. That means the minimum bid will go up for babies in a bonnet! But if someone out there is willing to have Tom draw their baby in a bonnet photo for $500 (Not an unrealistic cost to expect from many artists) Tom may fall in love with baby in a bonnet photos all over again! Don't you think? Tom expects it won't be long before artist studio time will be a standard category on Ebay's auction lists and will be crammed with artists offering to paint for the highest bidder. Will Ebay give Tom any recognition for this great idea? Tom hopes so! Because then his work will be much more valuable as being done by the historically famous artist who changed the art world with Ebay. And Ebay will get a nice percentage of the successful auctions that result and someday sketches will appear with the T. Halverson signature under the category ANTIQUE Art:Original:Drawing! And it will be auctioned for 10 million dollars along with the Mona Lisa and the Statue of David!
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