Sunday - All in a Day's Work

Untitled, oil pastel on paper, 8"x10"

Not much gets done on a Sunday - for most of us. It is a time to organize things, clear mail, pay bills, plan for the coming week. It is on a Sunday that goals get revised and adjusted.

I'm sure most of us once in a while try to reset goals, make plans and replan. The increasing momentum of the day, that almost doesn't stop, gets a brake on a weekend. Most often it is a deliberate brake. Otherwise, the machine might burn out. Once in a while we need to stop and look back, correct things. Only then we can move forward, with renewed energy.

This is the time to recuperate and renew.

Art in Music, Paintings, Sculptures, Stories, Poems, Fashion, Everyday Life....

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What kind of art can we find in music, paintings, sculptures, stories, poems, fashion? Is there art in everyday life?

Like with everyone else, I have been bitten by the television bug too. And for some days, I've been thinking about this question while watching a music talent show. Is there the same art in music as it is in paintings? What kind of art can we identify in stories and poems, and is it same as that found in everyday life, as in fashion, food, etc.?http://www.fineartamerica.com

Marketing and Selling Art

The last few days, I have been thinking a lot about how to market art. How I, as an artist, should also focus how to sell the work I have created.

I have surfed the internet to find what other artists are doing in this regard. I am learning a lot of things in the process. As a present day artist, the artist should invariably have a web presence. These would include, an artist's art website, a blog, portfolio in online galleries, etc. etc.

There is a lot I need to learn. Merely showing in physical galleries and joining competitions is not enough. Wielding the painting brush and mixing colors is not sufficient. One should learn the language of the web and be internet savvy.

Thank god my friend had taught me to use the internet in 1998. But I am not an expert yet. Technology can move ahead of you so fast. One always has to keep up with it.

The Figurative Art of Painting the Face



A work in progress

Firstly, it is the face that attracts anybody. As an artist, the thing I love to paint foremost is the face. It would be very easy so find the reason if one analyses it. But I would just like to say that emotions affect me. And the face is the part of the body where emotions show most easily. In that case, I would be an adherent of the Expressionist school of art, I understand.

Slowly I am getting to know my art. Why do many kinds of things? Why experiment with so many colors? Isn't it the right time to choose, to focus on some, and block out the rest. For a signature style, isn't it necessary to choose?

And layering - of colors - so that it shows in depth, is essential. For some time now, I had been concentrating on small size paintings. I had moved away from my size, which is large. In India, when I started off, I started with the large size. Due to the economy, I have forced myself to do the small sizes. But that has not been very satisfying. That should not be the case, but that's how I am feeling. My personality likes big paintings, and I should not confine myself to the small ones.

With this thought process, I am preparing the ground to restart work on the large ones. Hope this is the right path. What do you say?