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Showing posts with label american primitive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american primitive. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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.
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.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sometimes...
...you have moments where, despite certain realities, you feel that you are alone in the world, without a net, without any force to guide you, with nothing but your own moral compass, and nothing but your own intution and your own self-reliance to guide you.
it is at times the worst feeling in the world, because you feel like you are being sucked into a black hole...
and it is at times the best feeling in the world, because are you confident that you can overcome, without anyone else to help you.
today, for this american primitive, this is one of those moments.
i try not to wallow in it...instead i glory in, i revel in it, i thrive in it.
i am alone...naked and free, relying on no one...and i am content.
it is at times the worst feeling in the world, because you feel like you are being sucked into a black hole...
and it is at times the best feeling in the world, because are you confident that you can overcome, without anyone else to help you.
today, for this american primitive, this is one of those moments.
i try not to wallow in it...instead i glory in, i revel in it, i thrive in it.
i am alone...naked and free, relying on no one...and i am content.
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