Today I am posting an overcast harbor scene of Wellfleet Massachusetts, 16×20.”
I told a dealer about this piece a few months ago and was told there was no interest in anything that might reek of inclement weather. Then I had another dealer see it and rave about how well it comes across. This made me reflect on the art market and how things have been like this since the beginning of time. As soon as someone begins to create, there will be someone there suggesting what you really should be creating.
Don’t listen to them.
You’ll be at your strongest creatively, if you paint exactly what YOU want. Your colors, your subjects, with no regard to the market…or what might sell. This is the only way to go.
Painting what you are excited about will get you up early and keep you up late at night in your studio. As artists this is the ideal scenario, heading to the studio before you do anything else.
I like capturing the rain. I like the fog and painting snow scenes too. I remember being in Times Square in the early 1980′s photographing one cold winter morning with a close family member asking “why are you photographing this area?” Times Square back then was a seedy set of peep shows, hawk shops and XXX Dancing signs everywhere. I am so glad I kept taking those shots and did not listen to anyone’s objections. Times Square does not look like that anymore and it never will again. With my old Fuji I caught the New York of that day, a shady neighborhood on its way out and from those photos, I painted a killer city series of a Times Square that is long gone, and so are all those paintings. As the fog lifts this morning I head into the studio to paint more unpopular subjects. Can’t wait.
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