Is painting for a gallery different than painting for yourself?

General question to the artists of HCAA (or any other artist for that matter)…when you know you will be submitting a piece specifically for a gallery, is your mindset different than when you are painting for the fun of it? Or do you decide that a piece is “sell able” after the fact? Also, and [...]

work from the valley of the sun

seven fresh masons have been posted to high country art and all are in the usual contemporary naive style–some small and few a bit bigger.
just finished a one-person show in peoria, arizona for a month and another in juried exhibit for the glendale arts council. let me know if the ‘naif’ style appeals to [...]

Louis Mason

From the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Today
http://www.uwosh.edu/news/?p=549
Retired educator enjoys second career as artist
Louis Mason, MSE ’66, spent 36 years in the classroom as a business teacher.
But he has always been an artist.
In his retirement, Mason has rediscovered his love for art – and found others love it, too. In fact, he has sold more than [...]

Newest Marsha Savage Painting

Although I paint mostly in pastel, I have been trying to return to my oils and my acrylics. I painted a diptych — which is two canvases that create one painting. The canvas sizes are four feet high by three feet wide and when put together side-by-side create a painting that is six feet wide!
The [...]