Hi Phil
Thanks for looking and for you thoughtful questions.
Is this just a study or would you consider hanging it on one of the walls of your house, or would anyone buy such a painting? If it is a study, that you intended for a learning experience and will use the technique in some future painting?
By coincidence, I've been thinking about those questions lately.
-It's not a study
-I probably won't hang it
-I don't have a clue as to whether anyone would buy it.
It's something I saw that I wanted to paint, and I painted it the way I saw it.
That's really why I paint, I've decided - to express the way I see something that interests me by using visual images.
I have a few of my paintings hanging in my home, but I rarely hang one.
As for sellling, I'm retired after having created and run a successfu software business. No more business for me.
I like to show my work in shows, mainly so that I can see it with the work of other painters and get ideas from those comparisons. I also like the critiques and suggestions I get here that might make it easier for me to capture what I see.
I used to put them in galleries for sale, but that became too much like work and I stopped doing that. If I want to sell something, I can make a lot more money with less effort selling software that I'd ever make selling paintings.
I've often said that I'd love to paint something that I'd buy if I saw it in a gallery- I'm not even close. On the other hand, I haven't seen anything by anyone else in a gallery that would make me want to buy it.
Regarding Rembrandt - I love to look at his paintings. He saw the world differently than I do and that's why he was an immortal painter and I ran a software company.
I'll never paint the way he did and that's OK with me as long I can keep finding new things that excite me enough to want to paint them as I see them.
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