Fully realized

[Michele Rushworth]

Calvin Goodman, who is arguably the authority on art marketing, starts off by saying "The art market is not the mass market." I think someone who would ask questions like these is probably not a serious prospect.

[Mike McCarty]

As much as anything I am trying to educate myself for the possibility that someday I may be asked to elaborate, to explain the rational for choosing to cover the canvas or not. Eyes can be directed with color, shapes ... with paint.

Some artists are capable of more than one style. They might some day be asked to explain why two subjects, each in head and shoulder pose, would be depicted so differently.

In the example I posted above I recall that what I ended up with was the result of a fairly organic and spontaneous experience. It was not something that was a preconceived notion. But, it would seem that when we do these commissions we don't really have that kind of freedom, the freedom to be completely spontaneous.