First time posting here

[Linda Brandon]

Hi Matt,

Welcome to the Forum! I see a strong Zorn-like quality to your expressive painting style and I like it very much.

Marketing yourself is all about showing your work to people who will want you to paint for them. This is harder to do than it sounds. You are certainly well on your way in terms of managing paint technique.

I hope you will contribute a lot to our Forum and give encouragement and advice where necessary.

[Matt Viinanen]

Hi Mrs. Brandon.

I hope you will contribute a lot to our Forum and give encouragement and advice where necessary

It would be my honor and pleasure.

Thanks for your kind words!!

//matt

[Garth Herrick]

Matt,

Let me also welcome you to this Forum. I am impressed, especially with your son's portrait that you achieve strength and unity in the design of your long, sweeping brush strokes, and yet maintain within these strokes, every subtle and delicate nuance. Well done! Let me also echo Linda, in the invitation and hope that you will contribute much to this Forum.

Garth

[Matt Viinanen]

Cheers Garth!

//matt

[Linda Brandon]

Originally Posted by Matt Viinanen

Hi Mrs. Brandon//matt

Please call me Linda, Matt!

[Allan Rahbek]

Hi Matt,

Welcome to the forum. I like your strong painterly style and hope that you will participate in the critic sections as well as showing more of your works.

I should like to discuss the terms of marketing traditional portraits in our part of the world.

A fellow Scandinavian, Allan