Oil Painting Plaza

Footage of an art show of the artist Jesse Edwards

Original oil paintings of professional Texas artist Debbie Grayson Lincoln who lives in Erath County Texas near Cowboy Capital Stephenville.

Everybody says painting is an art, but more than art, I think it’s a mode of communication. Of course, when we think of painting today, we visualize oil paintings in art galleries and exhibition halls. However, painting has a very ancient history, when pre-historic humans used to draw animals pictures and scripts on cave walls. They didn’t do that for earning money I am sure, it was a type of communication system, like we have cell phones and laptops. Even today, these so called modern art or contemporary paintings try to speak to us, they tell us something subconsciously which instantly draw us towards them, like some magnetic force.

Oil painting is one such form of fine art. It has been widely used in modern Europe and other parts of the world. Many great painters like Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso and others have used oil paintings, to express their inner most feelings and philosophy, which have remained alive for so many years. Today, when we walk into any of these art galleries, we not only see their paintings, we see those painters speaking to us through those pieces of canvas. They are communicating something through their art, isn’t it?

So you are interested in buying an oil painting? Not a bad idea, but what are you looking in that painting? What do you want that painting to communicate to you and others?

Some buyers of art buy art based on particular themes. They are just avid art-collectors. They buy it because they can hear what that oil painting wants to say. These buyers roam in areas which are more close to art galleries and art lanes, where you might find local artists selling their talent at a cheaper price, than what you might find in an art gallery.

Apart from these art collectors, who have more knowledge about oil paintings and their technicality. People like us, buy art because we like to put it up in our living room or in our office cabin. Something that communicates our mood and attitude to others, at their very first glance at the painting.

Few of us, who are a bit of business-minded, see investment in art. Normally, when you and I see Mona Lisa, we admire its beauty; they see it as an antique to raise money. It’s just a matter of how we perceive things. These people purchase art and sell it off when they think its right time to sell it.

Hence, it becomes very crucial to know what exactly you want your art to communicate.