and I'm working on a face lift for my blog - this is one way that might work - and for those that celebrate Easter, have a fabulous one!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
huh?
I'm always stopped dead in my tracks when someone asks, "what is your medium?" - "my medium?" or "what do you paint?" - "what do I paint?" GEEZ! then I stumble, mumble and try to form a polite answer, but I always sound pathetic! - "Um, well, I paint abstractly, using oil, but sometimes I use acrylics, on paper mostly, but I also like, wood, cardboard, canvas and then I use figures sometimes, you know? but they are abstracted feelings", and on and on and on I stumble trying to make sense of my art practice, which makes total sense to me, but to someone else must seem a topsy turvey world with a slightly dysfunctional fairy leading the parade - it's like trying to explain a dream that made total sense while I was dreaming it, but in the light of day, comes across as bizarre and disjointed told by someone who stared at the sun too long - there are so many ways I love making art - I've stopped trying to answer the question specifically and now just say, I enjoy many forms and direct them to my website - so nice to be able to send people to a place where, if they are really interested, they can actually SEE what I do......so that brings me to what I'm working on now - the images below are details of possible configurations using all the work I've done over the winter - I'm using that work as elements to create larger pieces - this is another form I really enjoy - mixing my paintings up just like life - each piece representing a time in my life juxtaposed with other times in my life - these are being affixed to different surfaces, mainly large pieces of cardboard and then worked a bit more - as soon as I have one truly done, I will post it .........
and I'm working on a face lift for my blog - this is one way that might work - and for those that celebrate Easter, have a fabulous one!
and I'm working on a face lift for my blog - this is one way that might work - and for those that celebrate Easter, have a fabulous one!
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beautiful, warm, chromatic...
hahah!! this post is so perfect . i alway feel bad with these situations . no especific words , just : ahhh , ummm ......
at least it easyer to me . i just say that it is acrylic on canvas . what ? i can't explain .
there is that moment when someone says : "oh , i am an artist too ! once i've painted the landscape of the view i have of my beach house with a beautiful bird , see , we are both artits ."
that is the reason i don't like very much when people call me artist .
your work is exellent , i think that good works always make the author gets in trouble in moments like this .
I wouldn't worry about trying to describe what you do - just invite them, whoever, along to your next 'showing'; take them by the hand and say, "there, look, that's what I do." I just love your work and am so grateful to be able to look at it in cyberspace from so far away. Ann from UK
I am prejudiced I love all your mediums ... LOL ... I am now in love with the header
So funny how you descriube a situation like that and i can relate to it. ;-)
Your paintings are awesome (as always). Like if i jump in them to follow all the paths in the landscape and trying to discover all its hidden treasures. The glowing face in the dark is so great! I admire your work a lot.
Perhaps carrying a brag book of pictures of your work would make it easier.
What a great post, I'm so glad I found your blog. Even though what I paint is easier to explain, I often feel like the person asking me about my paintings is just looking at me with a blank look trying to take it all in. You certainly have a great attitude about what you do and I think that must come across, I think it comes across in your work.
I like your work, it is brave and powerful.
Joan
ooh,
so these may become dyptiches or something? that would be very
very cool...
I can see it now.
Hee, no, you haven't been staring at the sun too long! Your stuff is fabulous.
Love your new avatar pic!
I chuckled reading your "huhs?" and can relate. It is easier to just hand a card over and let them peruse further if they are so inclined. I'm just as clueless when someone starts trying to explain the workings of a job in programming, or the financial industry, and remain so even if they hand me their card!
Bringing together a few of your images to create a new piece intrigues me - I look forward to seeing the finished look!
That is true, sometimes it is hard to describe what we use and how we do it. I love your work. It is always wonderful.
Katelen
Amazing textures here! Love where this is going! Oh yes, chuckle, chuckle over Huh? I usually,invite people to see for themselves. It's easier!
Hi Jeane,
Happy experimenting!Good that you have so much with which to work. I like your blog's pale blue(?) background too.
Maybe artists shouldn't be allowed to explain..do you have to have a talent for words too?? No!!
The work speaks for itself!! It's great...!!
good morning Melinda, thank you for your kind words :)
Caio - you always make me laugh so hard - the story of the 'see, we are both artists' just cracked me up, but I guess it just shows that we are all trying to connect on some level - thanks for your always positive comments :)
hello Ann - it's always so nice to see you here, thank you so much :)
Hey Daryl! always many thanks for your support - it can be lonely in that little cold shed I call my world xxo
Hi moma luna - thanks so much and I love that you describe the work something like following a map because that is how I see it too :)
hello soewnearth - thanks for the suggestion and nice to see you here :)
hello Joan, I certainly know that stare you talk about - and I'm sure I've used on many occasions as they try to explain their worlds - so glad you found my blog and please come often :)
hey Grrl! nice to see you here - yes, they will become larger pieces and maybe twos and threes - it's still all cooking xxo
good morning Willow - well thanks! sometimes I wonder myself when I hear words coming out of my mouth that are not directly connected to my intelligence source - some side of my brain that spews mumbo jumbo fit only for conversations with pets xxo
oh Karin, your point is so well taken - all these worlds trying to find common ground with each other - simplification is a good way to handle I think - after all most of us are just trying to be polite - thanks :)
hello Katelen - thank you and yes, it is very hard sometimes to explain where this all comes from :)
I agree Kim - much easier for them to see for themselves - the question I dread the most is 'what inspired this?' - are you kidding? - if I thought about inspiration everytime I made a mark, I would still be standing holding a pencil looking at a blank piece of paper :)
thanks Derrick, I think I like the light blue too - it reminds me of spring and Robin's eggs - let's move away from the gray for awhile :)
well Lyn, I certainly don't have a talent for words, that's for sure - that's one of the reasons I paint - you say it very well, xxo
Your work is exciting, experimental, wonderful .... How to explain it? You are an artist and you create art ...... people need to see what you do. I find when I describe my work people expect something so different that I may as well have been describing outerspace. I love what you are doing and your header is so divine.
I get you, girlfriend. I don;t even try to explain anymore because I can't really even explain it to myself. It's just about what I feel and the colors in my head at that moment. An old friend of mine says, "It's art because I say it is, dammit!"
Fabulous.
The second one down is my favorite. I like the dialogue going on there. Very exciting, Jeane.
As for a "dysfunctional fairy leading the parade", I'm not seeing a negative in this. Sounds perfect!! You express that frustration so well. It is rather like trying to explain a dream...
We have an artist get together once a month and one artist is invited to speak about their work. One night the woman's process reminded me of you. She brought an unfinished painting instead of a finished one because to her the unfinished part, the part of action is the whole point.
These pieces are wonderful. And I totally understand being flummoxed at that question. How do we explain just what it is that we do??
Happy Easter backatcha!
I like the fact you can use anything to make art,love your top picture.
Have a lovely Easter.x
hello. I have been away teaching a workshop and am finally getting back to the blog world. I know what you mean- I recently went to the dentist and of course they want to do little chats in between the times you can't move your lips-- and I find that I don't always want to explain what I do to non-artists- so I give little polite answers. I really love your new work.
Absolute crazy making...especially when we listen to ourselves with the long drawn out explanation! Yes, to your work speaking for you and yes, to your website and shows...your work speaks!
I like your new way of playing...combining...lovely!!
The dark places are getting even richer...almost glowing.
LOL! that's so funny Robyn, outerspace, exactly - thank you so much - I think most of the time,they are just trying to be polite, but we try non-the-less xxo
so true Kathy - the same here - I can't even explain it to myself so there lies some of the confusion! thanks so much for coming by :)
thanks so much Skizo :)
oh, thank you Shayla! surly can relate to your friend in your art group - process is so exciting to me - explanation?, not so much xxo
I truly don't know Seth! and my journey is in constant flux, changing each day, month, year - just when I think I've got an answer, it changes again! thank you, :)
Hi Cynjon - have been visiting your place an smiling and laughing and smiling and laughing - always so much going on there - it's a treat to visit :)
Hi Kayla, yes! art can be made with just about anything as you have shown over and over! thanks you :)
so funny about the dentist Donna - I bet the isn't a person who can't relate - hope your workshop went well, I'm sure they loved you - thank you, :)
thank you so much Mary Ann - I love combing these elements together - it seems a full circle :)
I love these ghostly faces that you are creating recently...they are working so well with your mixed pieces. This new winter series looks amazing.
Jacky xox
Love all these snippets of whatever it is that you do, that you do so well, that we will see later, even if you can't tell us what it is.
:-D
Love all these snippets of whatever it is that you do, that you do so well, that we will see later, even if you can't tell us what it is.
:-D
good morning Jacky - thank you so much! it's so much fun :)
Hello Babs!, thank you!hope you world is wonderful and you have a happy easter :)
Jeane LOL you sound like me trying to talk about what I do. I am showing someplace that want to know if I will speak at the opening. Now that would be funny.
I love all the configurations you have done with your Winter paintings, it will be hard to decide they are all so powerful.
good morning Katherine - isn't it just crazy making, talking about the work!? - thanks, you are right, I like these works in many different forms :)
Great set of pieces. Great also that so many people have responded to this post. Your work is on a fascinating track and I guess the words might catch up with it later.
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