My boy got his own room & I space to paint. I’ve made a decision & start to sell my old artworks! Simple as that NO… I’ve decided to sell them no matter the price!!! I had my artworks in local galleries, without some significant success, I had them at my personal website www.topalski.com & at some other “great online places for selling art”… I’ve painted, painted and end up with walls filed with artworks, my walls & my artworks. It was nice in the beginning, after months they were like locked-up.

I’ve decided to sell them, or most of them. Purpose of art is to go outside, to the world, to customers walls, not to paint for me, myself, family, friends,…

Now I have dozens of satisfied customers, I have less finished artworks & more art in progress. Most of them are oil paintings on primed masonite (mdf) board. Masonite is inexpensive and it gives me freedom to paint whatever I like or almost any idea I have.

Every new artwork you can see at my facebook wall and at my twitter page.

At the end…

How to sell your artwork?

Easy… decide to sell it (if you sell one, you can always paint more) don’t overprice it, keep some of your works (made a collection best of the best).

Why to buy artwork?

Because you like it is the first reason. Second…Art investment…  You can buy cheap today & some day have…  Artworks are rare contemporary piece that have a potential to keep price & to grow.

Here some of my latest and sold artworks:

Recently I received new “follower” on www.twitter.com/contearts

My new follower is Rich Currie (if it’s his real name), on of dozen, in the ocean of “entrepreneurs”,… He claims, “Bio: My mission is to empower and educate you with the knowledge to become successful in all areas of business by coaching, connecting… “

At his website he has:

“ WEBSITE TUTORIAL
Simple Website Tutorial Software On CD’S Will Show You Step By Step How To Build A Professional Website!
With over 58,000 people following me on Twitter
You know you can learn from me!

I have taught thousands about building websites and Search Engine Optimization, as well as how to make money from Social Media.”

Well… I always look design & background- coding.

First design,… maybe, just maybe it has D of word Design.

Second SEO… In head script, that “person” have only meta description… (maybe that’s also state of his mind). He will teach you what? He doesn’t have basic SEO, and “He will Teach You… “

As I wrote in my post “A small swamp, a lot of crocodiles” … “Everyone is smart, until the opposite is proven”

And another one… “With over 58,000 people following me on Twitter You know you can learn from me!?”

What does it prove… N O T H I N G!!!  How’s that?
Jesus has 13 followers & I think we could learn more from him than from 58.000.000 of “entrepreneurs”…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!!!

Monday, December 14, 2009... first snow

What to say – the first snow is falling this winter.  First snow of fulfilled wishes, hopes, dreams… I have to admit I have had this fear, terrible fear that even snow is going to disappoint us… Financial crisis, health crisis, moral crisis, identity crisis, mental crisis,…, …sis, …sis,..sis, …sys, sys-tem error, or something else, something more, or for someone’s benefit? What is enough money? Sometimes it seems that “wealthy” people are more hungry, or unsatisfied than really hungry people, employers than employees, Why and what for,… Slaves of every day’s matrix, of their believes, their ideas, hopes,… Everyone is smart, until the opposite is proven. “Hi there I’m… Entrepreneur, Social Media, PR, Marketing, Inspiration, Blogger, Coach, SEO, Guru, webinar, seminar, cms, sms, inspirational expert of experts, capo di tutti capi of all and every capi of the previously stated…, and, … are you ready, … Yes I can, Yes You can, Yes We Can,… I earn few hundred , thousands, US$ per day,… ARE U READY? I will SHARE MY SECRET to wellness, happily ever after, with YOU!!! Yes I will teach you (don’t have something better, smarter where I can spend my time), I will teach you h0w to make it, how to get it, I WILL HELP YOU…” What a fairytale, dream seller, nice one, but still… Or maybe, just maybe it is truth!
Hold on (stop thinking about new car, computer, house,…), what is your idea , your life, and what will make you, really make you, really happy,… not in that moment but happily ever after.

I will tell you, for free, how to survive here in this swamp!

1.    First forget about crocodiles,
2.    Second, the biggest secret present but hidden for centuries, wellness secret is… sis, sis, sys, SYSTEM ERROR… sis, sis, sys, SYSTEM ERROR… sis, sis, sys, SYSTEM ERROR… sis, sis, sys, SYSTEM ERROR… SYSTEM ERROR… SYSTEM ERROR… SYSTEM ERROR…
3.    SYSTEM ERROR… SYSTEM ERROR… SYSTEM ERROR…
SYSTEM READY…

What to say- the first snow is falling this winter.

Darko Topalski at TV Studio

Yes, I’m presenter at the regional TV station Panonija here in my hometown Novi Sad Why?

I’m constantly working on myself, on improvements, to achieve better artistic technique, or to try to catch happiness in life.

To be news presenter good look and voice are not enough! You need something more to be completely here in that single moment. That’s easy someone would say, but it’s not! You are almost never here, in your mind you are usually somewhere out there, with your family, ideas, problems, hopes,… Everyone should learn how to clear mind, how to be completely here. Only than you will be in the possibility to work with 100%, to finish it, and to proceed further. Some of the philosophy schools are teaching us that to be present now, here, at the moment is the key, or one of them. If I say don’t think about the elephant, what’s in your mind… elephant. Clean your mind, clean your self, and at the end try to catch that tiny moment between breath in and breath out! That will be then only the beginning.

Just spread your wings, and fly.

"Would you Dare?" Oil on canvas by Topalski

It gives me freedom, when I paint I’m in my own world and I have a freedom to paint what I like and what I want in that particular moment. That is the main reason why I have a lot of experiments. You can shock in art someone in many ways, and we were witnesses of that through history. I prefer more to produce art that will emerge your feelings, your thoughts, artwork to which you will come again and again and again. That particular and special type of art I call OPVS EVOLVZIONE and they are mine special (or I think so), something specific and personal!

In my case and my painting, sometimes inspiration is some photo, sometimes it’s the artwork of some other artist (because of theme or technique), I have also these special moments when I practically see finished painting that I have never seen before.

Sometimes I dream it and sometimes it’s that moment between dream and reality! After that I made a drawing, but the most difficult thing is to paint that painting as I “saw it” sometimes during the process of painting something new emerges up, something I haven’t expected faces that you see in one moment and faces that you’ve never seen before at this work in the next moment!

Conte Art or Contemporary art Gallery by Contemporary Artist Darko Topalski aka TOPALSKI fine arts

CONTE or Comte by the origin or family roots of Darko Topalski!

How?

Coat of arms of Jaksic Family

My grand mother (my fathers mother) Djurdjinka is from the Jaksic family. Jaksic family is old Serbian family… Once I’ve asked my grand mother, did they have coat of arms, and she told me, they did with Rooster! I have found it as the main Jaksic family coat of arms!

There is a lot to tell about Jaksic family and roots, here some of them or my grand, grand mothers…

Ana daughter of Stefan Jaksic married duke Vasilij Lvivic Glinski of Litva.

Jelena Vasiljevna (Elena Glinskaya) grand doter of Stefan Jaksic married 1526. married Russian great duke Vasilij III Ivanovic (Basil III). First of two children of Basil III and Elena was Ivan IV (Ivan The Horrible)!

Here is my sign, or latest version of it. Here you can see it described with all versions and step by step evolution…

If you take a closer look at my sign, you might think of some sign, of some secret society, that I’m member of,…  With that idea, you could be mislead onto a wrong path, or maybe not…

What represents my sign???

I could say this is the Fourh Version, but let’s take closer look through versions…

V1 The first Sign (1990)

I’ve decided to make my own and personal sign. This first sign has only my initials in Greek= Darko+Topalski

V2 The Second (Deltha System)-(1993)

Now we have something different. First to my previous sign I’ve added another (outside) circle for the protection. Then I’ve implemented some old and ancient symbols in my sign to increase its strength. First Cross (unity of four elements, four main sides of the world), then another opposite triangle to the previous (Solomon’s Stamp), plus we have also here one arrow or triangle for every part of the world!

V3 The Third (1999)

The third version is just a little bit different from the previous. I’ve removed the inner circle and added eye, as the symbol for the visual. That year I’ve started to work more active on my art!

V4 The Fourth (2004)

The fourth and the final one is also the reason that afraid some visitors of the first version of this site (who knows, maybe did also the third to my first site).
OK finally now we have double squares instead triangles (4+4=8), 4 is the number of the emperor, and eight is for the equality (Libra). With more progressive arrows for the sides of the world. It has the idea of me in the art world, and idea (a dream for now) of equality of my work and sale,… but who knows.

Every sign is centered, it means that the center of triangles, circles, crosses and squares are at the same point!

Detail "Disclosure of the hidden" oil on canvas by Topalski

If you take 10 artists with the same material and free theme, they will do different works on different subjects, with different values at the market. Artist is the main reason for the price, and market value of the finished artwork. Actually it depends on their inspiration. OK, than what or where is the source of inspiration…?

Have you ever tried to take a closer look on your thoughts, or have you ever really tried to catch your ideas?!? Well I’ve tried,…There are some methods, trainings, and what is the result? I was like a little boy with a net in the field of butterfly’s and for every word you have to chose butterfly with the right letter or for every sentence you have to pick butterfly with the right word!!!

OK, then, real question is who or what decides which butterfly’s will be on that field in that moment, or will you be at the right place at the right time, or what painting will do some artist in some moment, or will you have the right and wining combination on lottery… I don’t think that is luck!