I’m about to embark on a Series of articles that I call “Seven Reasons”. This series will endeavor to unfold for you and me a clearer understanding of Art Paintings.

Why Seven Reasons? Well, first of all seven is the number of perfection and while I will not always, believe me, get it right and sometimes be far from it to some, it’s a great number to remember and for which to strive.

So why Paintings and who care about paintings? As you have learned from my many articles over the past months is that I have a passion for painting, a passion for an understanding and a fear that though myriads have had an exposure to art and paintings much of the exposure is like a light bulb, able to be turned on, often left on with no one home, and eventually dying or even dead from over self exposure. I just truly believe the power, the joy, the well being, the memories and the human engagement one gets from the creative expression of an artist far outweighs the cost of investment.

My hope is to expose you to many key benefits of paintings, insights about acquiring them and engaging with them and bring you to a place where understanding becomes a beneficial reality. We’ll discuss things like how paintings are conceived and executed, how to fine your type of painting, buying and developing relationships with artist painters, buying online, involving yourself in art, paintings affect on culture and society, the changing world and new revolution in painting, the health and relational benefits of paintings, the styles and executions of paintings and much, more.

We will strive to give you cognitive assessments, introspective writings and practical procedures all dealing with art paintings which is what the blog is all about.

We’ll also ask you to spend some of your valuable time, ponder and respond to the “Seven Reasons” series with insight and comments. I’ve taught many classes and one of the things that I have always found is that it is better to be a facilitator than teacher. There are always some great individual thoughts, opinions and beliefs which in the long run help each one of us. So please consider being part of this and let’s help each other grow toward a greater passion and understanding of art paintings.

I truly look forward, God willing, to the research, and writing as well as your comments in the weeks ahead. If you have some things you’d like to hear more on, go ahead offer them up.

Have a great week and may you find great paintings or may great paintings find you!

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

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The majority of people in a self-absorbed, me-ism society, social media driven culture won’t recognize great paintings, collectable artists and the priceless gifts that they bring to life.

What is the essence of a truly great painting? First before answering that one must consider are you talking about something that has been established, published and been honored because the history books, society or culture has told you these things? Or, are you talking about, a work of art, a painting or art paintings, that you have encountered, you have been engaged by and you have been overwhelmed with, to the point you want to posses it?

Artists, from every walk of life, from every culture and time period including today have found within themselves a force so compelling that it makes expression come from every part of their being. This expression is only satisfied by its execution and more often than not the satisfaction of the execution falls far short of the actual vision. When the combination of vision, execution, and accomplishment come together the work itself, the painting or paintings are the pinnacle of achievement. In its purest form it is without influence or criticism or judgment, and only experienced by the artist.

From this point on society, culture, critics, and peers will endeavor to evaluate their judgment and criticisms to tear away and pollute the purity of the expression. Herein, lies one’s own personal engagement to set aside the influences of others and experience all the expression has to offer directly within one’s heart, soul, and being.

Consider the artist Monet who said, after being told how great his paintings were, “one works a lifetime and considers only a very few to be even called great”.

If these works are rare how can one recognize them? Finding great paintings are not like taking a taste test, but in fact some of what someone must do is in the tasting. Society, culture, our environment and our upbringing influences our tastes, our desires our wants and our needs. Setting all those things aside and tasting only what the taste buds delivers takes effort. Discerning the way one’s individual palette delivers something pleasing is an individual personal experience and when done in truth has no outside influence. A person needs to seek out and experience art paintings. They need to learn to look and see and hear with their heart’s eyes. They need to discern what it is that they like and don’t like and they need to be prepared that in the midst of all these personal efforts to find out they will encounter an experience like no other. It will be at this exact moment that the engagement will meet the execution and the hearts emotion will be captured.

But, why should we even bother with paintings? While my own personal opinion is that some paintings should be bothered with as society and culture makes additions to the décor of their living and working environment based on color matches. You don’t place a painting on a wall to match the furniture or a pillow. You put a painting on a wall to influence and encounter you within that living environment. Great paintings can have color that enhance an environment, but great paintings can and should influence your health, push you to a positive daily emotional state, remind you of great memories and experiences, and speak volumes to your inner being. More than the humanities, society, culture, paintings, great paintings, engage you, travel your mind to wonderful places of peace and rest and bring you to your knees. They overwhelm you with the great generosity and loving kindness of the Creator. They simply make all parts of your life better because they give you life day after day after day.

Once these realizations happen and you truly will not understand it, great art paintings take on a new relationship beyond money. They become priceless; priceless to their possessor and priceless in their contribution to the well being of their viewer owner. Great paintings must be looked at deeply and connected with as often as possible. As “Antiques Roadshow” has shown us, broadcast after broadcast, you never know what you are actually possessing, what its worldly value is, and how it may be a true investment return. What you do know once you have this realization is that whatever investment you made to acquire a great painting will far outweigh and any monetary return.

Find great paintings or may they find you!

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!

The Connection between Relaxation, Stress Relief, Emotional & Physical Well-being Can Be Demonstrated in Great Paintings. This is of vital importance because today we live in the midst of wars, rumors of wars, floods, pestilence, and of course as we have just seen close to home earthquakes. Life is stressful. At no time in human history has the global world be closer with more information, more demands, personal and governmental agendas. Life is stressful.

Negative thoughts, attitudes, emotions, feelings, misperception, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, resentment and social alignment are causing havoc with health problems and health related issues. “Me-ism”, “What I deserve”, “What I am entitled to”, and a quick “cell-phone donation” have taken the place of service to our fellow human beings. Lining oneself up with people who are continually spewing negative thoughts and emotions, watching and imitating, mirroring what you think others have and you want have negative effects on conscious decisions. The energy drain of negative people and the environment around oneself and the media has sucked the positives out of life, balance and the foundational rights and wrong that a person has grown up with. Unhappy people, hypochondriacs, and stifling relationships with people who have made wrong choices lead one to negative structure and chemical change. Changes brought about with attitudes, non feelings, anxiety, anger, resentment, social realignment exert powerful affects on a person’s healthy well being. Time has disappeared into daily planners and self management software. Lobbyist and payments to politicians have caused the worst recession since the great depression. At no time in human history in the midst of the information explosion has the workload for some and the non work for others created such anxiety and fear. Life is stressful and the health problem grows.

The powers of positives continually fight these overwhelming affects. Positives and the power of positive thinking, acting and being can help ones’ immune system. Look around are you in the midst of a negative group? Are you working in a high stress negative environment? Are you feeling that each and every day you are being attacked at some level or you are losing control, encountering failure, suffering from constantly changing medical conditions? Have you made choices which are a direct result of your present condition?

One of our great combatants to these issues is great paintings! Paintings that deal with your hearts emotions; paintings that capture your thoughts, dreams and inner most mind; paintings that engage you beyond some picture put up for décor or color matching are great paintings. These paintings remind you daily of the positives. They take your memories and gift them to you a new and afresh each time you see them and listen to them with your very soul. These painting let you breathe and relax renewing your very being. These paintings take you deep to world only you have traveled and they bring you to a life marker that releases the positives necessary to build and strengthen your health.

Great paintings are vital and unique weapons in the arsenal for health and well being. They are not some series of self absorbed rotating pictures in a box or some moving video that aggregates itself with all the other stresses. They are works of color, of imaged expression of an artist’s inner most interpretation of his or her creative being. They are modeled to meet you head on, to grow with you daily and bring you a constant and continually balm of positive reinforced memories and messages that are therapy to your very bones.

Wake up to the fact that great art paintings are here for you! You can find them at museums. You can find them at exhibitions. You can find them in galleries. You can find them at artist studios. You can find them online. You can see, observe, and look for them in the environments you encounter from the corporate world to the world of healthcare. The main thing is to find them and if at all possible acquire them either in their original form or in some print fashion. You’ll easily recognize them because they call you by name and engage your conscious and your unconscious and they speak volumes directly to your very being. They will seem like they have been created for you and for you alone and they will form a bond with you that is as close as any friendship. They won’t disappoint you or change their feelings for you, but will add positive, that last lifetime.

Find them acquire them and preserve them and if you already have one then find another. It’s worth it.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!

“We feel the most important thing given the current catastrophe is, if you have a relationship with God, to pray for the people Haiti!”

“May God bless you!”

“Oh See The Light”

Documentation and research have indicated that the Chinese implemented and studied the effects of color and its affect on human health. Their results have proven that there is a connection within the brain and an effect on human beings. Moods, emotions, feeling, and positive effects can be directly related to the viewing and engaging of art paintings.

3,000 years ago the Chinese developed the ancient art and theory of “Feng Shui”. “Feng Shui” is the complex body of knowledge that reveals balance and energy into a human space. Much of the fueg shui movement has found itself in interior design and modern décor. The feng shui color guide using red, orange, purple, pink and strong pink is a huge part of its advance in interior design and décor.

Abstract art has dominated the world of art’s landscape for much of the past 30 years. In the United States alone it is still the single most directed thrust of art colleges and visual art universities to their burgeoning students. Abstract paintings and abstract art paintings have exploded on to the art world in an unprecedented way.

Society and our culture should become more aware of the possibilities this integration has for better living and better health, men health and women health alike. Every opportunity should be made in the corporate world to purchase and display works, paintings that use affective healing, health colors, feng shui colors to create better more healthy environments for people to work in.

Many of the top artists today those who value their own work and the lives and health of their viewing audiences and patrons are making great strides in the use of specific colors and color sets. Artists should embrace more of an effort to integrate and use health colors and feng shui color in the paintings and art expressions. Study and research within the art community should go hand in hand with the medical community in affectively dealing with Alzheimer’s, nursing home care, and healthcare facilities using art paintings that not only engage viewers and patrons, but provide them with the positive that art paintings bring.

Think about the positive affect this movement could have on the world of painting. It could act as a renewal of quests, stimulations and huge opportunities to infuse the art world’s artists with working capital, encouragement and excitement in their creative expressions.

Everyone wins, society and culture is enhanced. Women health and men health stand to have added improvement without that same cost structures seen in drugs and medicine. Every working environment would offer positive effects on emotions and feeling. Treatment and care could see dramatic changes in the way people feel.

Who knew? We do and now you do! Tell someone and get the ball rolling; we all could benefit greatly.

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
http://art-paintings.us
http://www.paint-tings.com
http://findmypaintings.blogspot.com/

For More Paintings Go to Paint-tings Gallery!