How to make money out of painting deocrative pictures
l FILLING THE GAPS OF HISTORY
l MAKING ORDINARY THINGS EXTRAORDINARY
l ILLUSTRATING FABLES AND LEGENDS
l RECONSTRUCTING LANDSCAPES OF TIMES PAST
l PAINTING PORTRAITS AND COMMISSIONS
l PAINTING FOR DECORATION6. Painting Decorative paintings
When everything else fails... So how do you do formula paintings, and what are the formulas that always sell?
In the business we call these 'potboilers' and the problem is not in painting them it is disguising them
sufficiently so they seem fresh and new, one off originals instead of formula paintings.
There are of course certain things that have universal appeal and I will show you two variations of them in this
lesson. Understand however, this universality needs to be tweaked and adapted depending on the country or
other demographics, like your target audience. It is a fact, for instance, that folk in the US and Europe will
appreciate more colorful paintings than those living in South Africa or Australia who, no doubt due to an
abundance of color and light and the absence of winter grays, appreciate that which they don't get to see a lot ...
the more subdued hues.
Here is our first example ... a girl frolicking in a surf on a hot summers day and pelican investigates. A universal
desire.
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