Promoting Paintings

I have recently joined a group called We Are Art Gallery.

Two pieces of mine - Darkness Visible and The Playwright's Study - are on sale through this site, as well as through my main art site.

Beyond the actual work of painting, I am learning the hard way that some element of marketing, public relations, and story telling are involved. The name, American Primitive (inspired by the title of a Gauguin book, "Writings of a Savage"), is a part of that.

One of the neatest thing about painting, however, is the creative process and sometimes just doing a piece for someone. It's almost as intimate as the literal act of lovemaking.(Obviously that sensation varies depending on whom the someone is...no one wants to paint for mom and say that it is similar to lovemaking).

To create a painting, thinking of your friendship/relationship with the individual for whom I am painting. You proffer the final piece to the intended. It is quite a feeling.