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6 Reasons Why Every Artist Should Have an Online Art Portfolio

1 Showcase your work
With all that time and effort taken to produce a piece of art that you are proud of it would be a shame not to share it with everyone. By creating an online art portfolio you can create a visible and organised record of years of work. An online art portfolio could be used to show family and friends your work but the real advantage is it opens up the potential to share your work amongst the rest of the world.

2 Sell your art
Whilst selling your art may not be your primary motivation, the resulting confidence gained from knowing other people appreciate your work so much that they are willing to buy it is immeasurable. It can spur you into producing similar artwork creating a popular series.

Not only does every piece of art you sell offer a financial reward but it can be seen as an additional marketing tool, your work is hanging somewhere for more people to see, enhancing your reputation and show casing your work to those whom you might never meet

3 Build Reputation / increase your visibility
The internet is the biggest art gallery in the world, with millions of potential art buyers and art lovers online you need to make sure they can find your work. An online art portfolio gives you the perfect opportunity to do this and with numerous social media outlets you have the ability to show case your work to thousands of people not available via traditional methods.

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Mystical Abstract Art

When attempts have been made to describe a work of abstract art many people have used words like “feelings”, “emotions”, and “soul”. I think these words are clues to what is actually happening within both the viewer and the artist.

The world of art and the environment of the mystical go back a long way together with many facets in common with one another – one being that they both seek to look into a deep unknown – and then seek to manifest it into this physical world by one means or another.

Therefore it is understandable that a non-representational picture can be difficult to comment on. The viewer might be “moved” by the artwork, but they may not really know why. I believe it has something to do with their sleeping soul being gently (or violently) shaken into a specific awareness. The earthy physical body may have very little understanding as to what might be happening, so they are left to struggle in explaining a spiritual concept from a physical point of view.

However, as an artist who has acquired (and lives by) a little understanding of certain spiritual aspects, here are my offerings of what I believe happens when a viewer comes across a mystical abstract painting.

In order to do that I want to present the whole episode from all aspects:

The Spirit
One of the Spirit’s major intentions is to bring spiritual understanding into the physical realm. One way to do that is to enter time and manifest a potential opportunity for a receptive body. That receptive body can either be the person being offered the opportunity – or the messenger of it. If they are the messenger then there are many ways in which that message can be put across … and one of them is by producing a provocative illustration or allegory in the form of an abstract painting.

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