Religious Paintings For My Gallery

I've a gallery that a local businessman financed. He sought a location on the town square that featured religious paintings. I've been occupied buying religious painting for several years. I have discovered some comfortable pieces and I've a lot of people purchase paintings that I've found.

One of my favorite artists is someone that I actually stumbled across when I was buying religious paintings. He was not famous, but he had some of his pieces at a local show. I found that he primarily paints and sells his work online.

It is difficult to describe all of the feelings that I had when I saw his first piece. I really liked that he used the scripture Psalm 139:14 and made it gently legible within the layers of fresco colors. I thought that this was a fantastic choice for my gallery. Buying religious paintings is exciting.

When my painting arrived, it was on gallery wrap ¾ inch stretcher frames and was ready to hang. My patrons came to a private preview of the piece and were so pleased with my success at buying paintings. The piece was actually five original canvases, each 15" X 30" with charcoal painted gallery wrap edges so that no frames were needed.

The title of the piece was long, but suitable. The title was "I will praise thee for I am fearfully made marvelous are Thy works and that my soul knoweth right well". One of my patrons sought to buy it and hang it in his home. I had to convince him to let me show it for four months before he did that. It is exertions finding and buying suitable religious paintings.

In regularly that I've spent considering and buying paintings, I am starting to feel as if a specialist. I look for paintings in an assortment of mediums to keep the gallery feeling fresh and vibrant. My favorite religious paintings use fresh earth minerals, pigments, oil glazes and acrylic varnish.

I actually don't have preference if an artist signs his canvas or not. A good number of my patrons, even so, want their paintings signed. So, when I am buying religious paintings, I look for ones that the artist signed.

The artist that I decided was my personal favorite uses the lost language of symbolism in his original paintings. He told me that his paintings are inspired by the ancient storytelling frescoes of Pompeii, Italy. He has a trademark style that he calls Religious Graffiti.

I get a good number of requests for certain subjects in the paintings that I buy. I have been searching for religious paintings of Mary and Jesus and also painting of Mary and Angel Gabriel. I have several families that have wanted these classic images in their homes. I have another family that wants me to find an oil Madonna with Child to hang in her church.

There was one religious painting that I bought that was very sweet. The image of Our Lady, Jesus and St. Giovannino was very provocative and it hung prominently in the gallery for a half year before I let it go. I get attached to the religious paintings that I buy and then get to view every day. I've a policy that no painting will leave the walls of the gallery for four months.

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