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Friday, 25 September 2009

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    I hate lossing my internet... makes for regular updating of my blog a wee bit difficult. 

    I am having a  busy busy couple weeks.  I am in the process of moving - which everyone knows is fun.  And I have a couple art shows to attend in October. 

    There is the PINK Show at the Chris Sorenson Gallery on Oct. 1st - where I will be hanging one painting.  That would be the Passion Pulse painting which is a pink and purple bold flower. 

    And I am very excited about the Metro arthop at Boba Fusion on the third Thursday October 15th.  I will be hanging SIX paintings from my Midnight Madness series. 

    I will post pics of the completed paintings later... but for now... here are some of the work in progress pics.

    ragedraft1 snarldraft1 snarldraft2

     

    So for those of you locally... if you want to see the completed works... you can come to my show.  But I will post those pics after the show.

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Friday, 04 September 2009

  • Sleepless in sleeperville

     

    I am wondering if insomnia is an automatic given in artist.  Like some kind of not so secret handshake that that we all recognize in each other.  I've met so many artist that all claim to not sleep.  Most work into the wee hours.  So it makes me wonder.  Does our work have some sort of embedded code woven into the fabric or texture of each piece that whispers "3a.m."  "on this night she didn't even LOOK at her bed until well after 5 in the morning..."

    How many artist have kept a journal next to their beds to groggily reach for in the middle of the night when the inevitable "stroke of genius" or that elusive image dancing in their minds eye keeps them from drifting into real sleep?  How many have given up entirely, and turned the light on to their studios at 3:30 to open a can of creative whoop-ass because their mind just WONT SHUT OFF and their hands need to smear their tangled thoughts onto some solid form to gain some peace?

    I think I am rambling.  Sleep has been a particularly hateful creature this past month.  And I find myself wishing someone would dart me like a wild animal. 

    Meanwhile... I have my sketchbook to keep me company while the man snores away in the next room.  Punk. (I say that with Affection, of course!)

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Sunday, 30 August 2009

  • Envy of the Cynic

     

    There is a REASON I work in acrylics. I am NOT, by nature, a patient person. No, No. Please, I can hear all your astounded gasps of disbelief. However, I assure you, this little known nugget of fact is absolutely true.

    I like instant gratification. And when I am in the FLOW, I am in the zone, that ever elusive and mysterious MUSE is smacking me in the head and DEMANDING I listen RIGHT NOW.... I am a slave to her call. And when it hits me like that...I am so anxious to get it out that I cannot imagine waiting weeks to finish. Its usually a mad frenzy from start to finish to get it out of me. Oh, I don't usually finish that day... but still. I like acrylics because I don't have to worry for drying times too much. I don't want nothing crimpin' my style, slowing me down, mucking up the hit of inspiration like a shot of adrenaline. My fingers are flying, the paint is splattering, the music is blaring, the painting is really talking to me - and suddenly I need to wait for the piece to dry before I can proceed to the next step... and yet every ounce of me is screaming "DON'T STOP"!

    But when it calls for it... sometimes I have to stop and wait. So I step back from the current piece I am working on - hey, when they need their space, you gotta give it to them. But meanwhile, I am practically twitching with the need to keep going. Don't Stop Don't Stop Don't Stop....

    Usually when this happens I bust out one of my art journals, art pads, or another canvas and immediately jump into another idea that I had been sitting on just waiting for that right time to start.

    And that is how this next piece came to be. It was based on a sketch I drew up sometime last summer I believe. Here are the work in progress photos....

     envy of cynicWIP1 envy of cynicWIP2 envy of cynicWIP3 envy of cynicWIP4

    It was initially going to be part of the Face Series... but I was feeling something totally different when I started it (while I was waiting for something to dry on the CRY painting that I just finished the other day), and it took a different direction. I really like where it is going though.

    EnvyCynic 

    envycynic1 009

     

    I am calling this "Envy of the Cynic".

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Saturday, 29 August 2009

  • Cry - Midnight Madness #3

     

    Ok my little blog stalkers...:) I am back on track. I am ready to start updating this blog on a more regular basis again. I apologize for the long lapses of nothingness.

    As usually, I tend to have several projects in the works - even if they have not yet gone any further than a mental image floating around in my head.

    One of those projects is the Midnight Madness series, which, if you've been following my blog or my other sites then you've seen the other 2 pieces in that series (Scream, and Manic).

    I just finished the 3rd installment to the series... "Cry".

    Here are a few of the work in progress photos.

     

     cryWIP1

     

     cryWIP2

     

     

    And then the finished piece. Just need to finish off the sides of the canvas, varnish, and install the wire at the back ....and its good to go.

    CRY

    I really love working on this series. Some of my paintings take more time, more finessing, more fussing with this little spot or that little spot. These... they practically spill out of the jars all by themselves. As with the others of this series... these were primarily worked up with a palate knife, and then given some extra detail in a few key spots with my fingers or some very light brush work. These are very personal to me as they express a wide and rapid series of emotions I was going through all at once in the middle of the night last summer. There will be several more yet to come. I will be starting the 4rth installment in a couple days and should have that done by the end of next week if all goes right.

    Meanwhile... I started another unrelated painting when I was waiting for one of the layers to dry on this Cry piece... so I will post those progress pics for you in the next day or so. Completely different style and technique was used for that one.. can't wait to show you. I promise, I'll post those pics in the next day or two!

    As always... please leave a comment and tell me what you think... It really makes my day to hear some feedback on this blog... What can I say.. I'm needy that way! :)

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Friday, 07 August 2009

  • What Dreams May Come

     

    I love that moment of sleep, right where you are just drifting.. not even quite semiconscious, but a hairs breathe away from being completely asleep. You stop thinking in words and images take over. In my daily life, I may file away images, such as magazine clippings that I cut out and save for some future collage project, or a piece of inspiration for a painting. I have these hundreds of little clippings kinda-sorta organized and separated by general categories such as "work", "Inspiration" "nudes" "mental case" "struggle" "live life", etc. Left overs from working in an office, everything has to have its label, its little file that it belongs to.

    But when I am in that glorious place, that place where all the words stop, all the lists fall away and the images take over... that place where I seem to drift away, physically and consciously, then something delicious happens. All those little "mental" files that I keep open up.. and all the thoughts and images in my mind let go... and its as if those little clippings just float out of the files and folders and labeled little boxes and they just hang in the air.... the mix and mingle and drift this way and that way and INSPIRATION is born. Suddenly I see two images together that I never associated together before. A little "ZING" is sent through all the little nerves in my body and I swear a rush of adrenaline surges through me and I can't BELIEVE I never saw that before" and sometimes it completely wakes me up and I have to jump up and write it down - because these little drifty dreams are fickle and fades like mist in the morning light. I wake remembering that I saw something spectacular and can no longer remember, like that important urgent word at the tip of your tongue.

    Before I could never focus on these drifty dreams. Always too stressed about the fact that I had to do a million things tomorrow.. had to get enough sleep so I wouldn't be late for that ever so urgent 8 o'clock time clock because the world stops turning if your not there by 8 o'clock sharp..... going through the various lists in my head over and over and over and then having to go through them again because I missed something or didn't recite it in the right order so I start the list again and again...have to get enough sleep, what time is it? Oh no, only *** more hours left to sleep so I can get to work on time... what time is it? Only ** more hours to go.. oh god, only * hours to go.... I'm going to be miserable tomorrow.. I'm going to not be able to concentrate.. I'm going to make mistakes, I hate my job I hate my job I hate my job I hate my job...

    Words words words. There was no room for the images and expressions. My life was about labels, timeclocks, deadlines, file folders and cc memos and covering your ass. Power words, politics, bickering ladder climbing promotion seeking supervisors and mandatory pot lucks for people you would never choose to spend your lunch with if you had a real choice.

    Now that I don't have to worry about having that dead set the world will end tomorrow if I am a whopping 10 minutes late..... I can RELAX into sleep. I can let my mind drift and the images that I could never see through the stress induced haze come to me in whispers and caresses. Speaking to me in floaty voices only I can hear..... till I paint them in the light of day.

     

     

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