The business suit in portraiture

[Tom Martinez]

We are servants to the client. It's the Money Rule. The one with the money rules. Those paintings with stiff business suits are corporate paintings made to impart an aura of success. You can't do that with open collar poses and wine bottles in view. The client will always tell you how the painting will look. It is our abilities as artists to make it look that way with an artistic look about it. And we, professionals and business entrepeneurs, will follow the age old saying of " The customer is always right."