Whenever I finish a group of paintings, I post them to my art website. It always feels good, after working so hard, to make this presentation of the whole group. It's akin to putting together an exhibition in a gallery, except that it's an online presentation only.
Here's one of my new paintings, Always Forward:
Some of the others have already appeared in this blog space. I often show them as I am working on them.
Whenever I post new art to my website, it means I also rearrange the other art, eliminating some pieces and moving others around. A website is an online gallery, and how you arrange the art matters. The paintings shown at the beginning of a web page will be looked at more than the others. And a painting may look better or worse depending on its placement on the page and what other works surround it.
I have a tendency to show a lot of my art on the website. I don't know if that excites visitors or exhausts them. Typically people either love what they see and stay awhile, or leave quickly. I've arranged things so that a viewer can move from painting to painting easily without going back to the main pages of the site. But some visitors choose to go from gallery page to gallery page and select the individual works they want to see.
It's pretty amazing, actually, that art can now be viewed in this fashion. We can share our work and enjoy the work of other artists from around the world while sipping tea in front of our computers.
