Paintings as a form of art requires great skill and time.
However after having invested so much time and skills in producing great masterpieces, most artists are prone to store their paintings in the their storage facilities where they gather dust and provide shelter for spiders.
with time, the precious works fade or are greatly tampered with.
All this results from lack of ideas on how and where to sell these pieces of creativity.
Each piece of painting if original should expressed on either glass, canvas, glass or paper, carries in it some emotions either of the author or another person.
For the abstract paintings which depict other people's emotions be they political or social, the painter should first of all accustom himself to the prevailing mood of the people he's targeting.
For instance if one is intent on doing paintings on key political figures such as president Obama, he should target Obama's supporters.
A painter should attend various art exhibitions very often and should pay for a stand in most of the exhibitions so as to showcase his work.
This is the best place to market one's works since all the people who attend art exhibitions do so for the love of art not unless they too are marketing their products.
Another place to target is the media, both print and electronic.
This guarantees one a very great audience so that if one's work appeals to to someone, he'll be sure to be contacted.
For the print media, one should aim for regular reviews of his works.
It also pays a lot to critic other painter's work through professional magazines and journals both positively and negatively.
Finally, one should come up with an appealing website where people can view one's works and probably buy them.