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Asel Art Supply — the oldest and the best in Dallas. Products may have been sitting on those shelves for decades, but the clerks are often knowledgeable and helpful.
Empty Walls — Kathy recommended Carolyn Lowry there. I'm not an easy customer, but I dealt with her over the phone, and she was very patient and precise. She called when she had made my mats. I picked them up and was pleased with the price. They're in Preston Center, 214 369-9989
Harrison Evans - $100/hour. Used by many DARts readers. Great if you can organize a bunch of work to shoot in a hurry. Harrison Evans Photography, 3614 Edgewater Street, Dallas, TX 75205 214/ 522-1754
Steve Beasley of Beasley's Fine aRt Photography - 1350 Manufacturing Street, Suite 205, 214 741-1176, fax 214 741-6301, beasleysphoto@msn.com is widely appreciated — this guy is legendary — for his reproduction of art colors in slides.
J R Compton - digital only - Most of the images on DallasArtsRevue are by J R. $100/hour to shoot includes digital production. Results on a CD. Digital only. E-mail JR or visit my home page.
I haven't used BWC for years, because they never could get the correct color on color prints of my paintings. And I have heard other frustrations about them from artists.
Ever since Steve Beazly left Total Color, Total Color has fallen into the same problems. They can shoot good slides, but the print color is wrong or even flawed with specks of dust blown up into spots or inability to crop as per instructions.
Steve is back, working independently, but I don't know his hourly rate. - Kathy Dello Stritto
Since Kathy recommended Mr Beazly, I've heard several artists say they only deal with him. -JRC
Expert Imaging is another big photography place (in Deep Elm) that I am now trying. An order to scan slides to make color prints produced the wrong color, as I was warned has happened to others, and necessated a do-over.
I hate these 4-trip orders. I will use them for photgraphing original art in the next few weeks, then probably end up on Steve Beasley's doorstep with my checkbook. - Kathy Dello Stritto
Ignore Expert's promises to call. I've been a customer for longer than it's been Expert, and they've only called me once. I assume any photo house will initially screw up the color and density of slides. I've never found one that got it right the first time (till I retried BWC in late spring 2007). I'll be so happy when art competitions finally join this 21st Century and require digital, instead of slide images.
More recently (May 2006), a simple order took three trips, and even after extensive discussion and explicit instructions, they mal adjusted images till I hardly recognized them — they were not worth sending in to a competion they were so poorly exposed. I give up. -JRC
My very favorite is Expert Imaging in Deep Ellum (on Canton at Hall, 214-748-3151). Phil Ober and the crew there take pics of all my work and make duplicate slides. All at a reasonable price with quick turnaround and a smile. A pleasure to do business with. - Sonia King
We do fine art reproductions as well as Giclee prints. If you have the time, please look at my web site and let me know if you need any more information.
Marshall Rawlings
AMERICAN LITHO COLOR, INC.
2622 Freewood Dr.
Dallas, TX 75220
214 358-2171
214 358-2334 FAX
marshall@americanlithocolor.com
www.americanlithocolor.comNo experience with these guys. Some others are notorious. Anybody tries them, let me know how it goes. -JRC
Out There
I found something called www.artstore.com. There were special crayons that I was looking for. They did not stock them but ordered them for me — pretty cool, I thought. Neither the company, caran d'ache, nor Daniel Smith would do that! - Nancy Ferro
Daniel Smith, located in Seattle, WA, is my favorite art supply source. They put out a nice big catalog once a year and smaller quarterly sales catalogs. All of these catalogs are filled with info and instruction about using various art media and techniques. They will send you reprintable handouts for free, and best of all, if you have any art questions, their artist staff will be glad to answer by phone or email. Of course, they have an 800 number. - Kathy Dello Stritto
Somebody mentioned a place in Austin that makes quick delivieries to Dallas, but I don't remember the name. - JRC
Art Deadlines List — both a public list and a paid-subscription list — lots of art opportunities in the public one. The Paid list is very probably much better. An annual E-mail subscription is $18. An annual on-paper subscription is $36. For only $350, DARts could join the E-mail version, and I could then put them on the M-O Ops Page...
Index of Selected Art Resources on the World Wide Web — from the Okanagan University College Department of Art.
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