evolution.....

The Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle is closing it's doors. I felt so honored to have my work there. It was one of those 'touchstones' in the evolution of my art practice. My work at a reputable gallery in a large city. Very satisfying. Many reasons for her to close her doors and I'm thrilled to say she will still be active in the art scene with her 'Art Advisory Services' - So what do I do now? I continue to paint, to knock on doors and continue my 'art practice' with the same intentions I've always had. Paint my journey. It's nothing more. I do have new things on the horizon and I'm excited about them. 'Skype' - I know many of you already have been using this brilliant format, but I just now got on board so that I can mentor other artists. This is such an exciting door for me to walk through. Video skype makes this possible from my little desk stuck in a closet in our home. Extremely cool! I'm gathering material to self publish a book of my art later in the year. Gigantic job. As my work is ever 'under construction', hard to nail down finished work. The photos below are the painting I showed you in progress in my last post. It's large and hard to photo and show the details, so the first shots are a few details and then the final piece. The weekend looms and I hope you all have amazing plans!









48x38 mixed media on board, 'She Saw It Differently'

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enough!

.......with the 10x10 boards! I'm putting the little boards away for awhile and dragging out some of my larger surfaces that have been used for cleaning my brushes for the past two or three months. Whew! I learned alot though, working on the small surfaces. It's pretty obvious that a large painting has more of an immediate impact. Small is more of a challenge to create a similar sort of impact. I was successful for about 1/3 of the time. The rest will be reworked when I can face working on that small space again. It felt so good to actually be able to almost walk into the work today. I had to keep moving back farther and farther to get a sense of how it was progressing. It was definitely time to make the switch. Obviously we are home from roaming the Rockies. It was fun, but nothing beats walking into our back door and being HOME!!! That's just me!


this first photo is of the board before I started working on it today....



this is how I left it this afternoon.....still a work in progress, but I like where it is going...



see you all later in the week......

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something new

It is snowing here in Whitefish Montana this morning and we are tucked into our condo here at the ski resort. It gave me time to figure out how to do a blog post from my ipad. I think I have it figured out....the photo above is one of the gorgeous sites in Glacier National Park. There is a photo opportunity around every corner. Well the snow has stopped and it is time for us to get out of here and see what we can find.

where did it go?

....time that is.....it's been over a week since I've been in my studio - I'm always a bit surprised when I realize that art practice got set on the back burner - jam packed with my other life for the past week - huge amounts of computer work, paper work, yard work, days of family, friends and not even a line in my sketch book - starting to feel a bit wonky and slightly out of balance - we leave in a few days for some time in Montana (I love Montana) - so it's today or none until I get home - I will satisfy myself with some sketchbook work and packing a small art bag for travel - most times I don't do art while I'm away because I'm so busy taking in all that is new - it's more like taking a security blanket with me - it's there if I need it......the photo below is a little painting I finished last week.



oil on board 10x10, 'She Knew It Was Time to go Home'

See you all on the other side of next week!

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occasionally

I've been known to occasionally have a small 'mini fit' in my studio when working on a piece! I mean really! sometimes it's just too exasperating when a painting is giving me grief! The one that no matter what I do, just sits there looking like the worst thing on the planet - it doesn't have anything to say except, "ha! I don't feel like resolving this time either!" Well for any of you who follow this blog, you know I have no problem reworking a piece, and have huge battles with others - but the piece below?, I have to say has given me the most grief ever - it NEVER resolved - just a board sitting with some color, or not, scratches, blacked out entirely, left outside so I didn't have to look at it and I was thinking about just tossing it into the fire pit to burn with the spring cleanup - I used it as a work surface for awhile, propped up a table with it and generally just ignored it until yesterday - yesterday I really didn't feel like painting, but I showed up anyway and grabbed the damn board off the floor - you see, at that point I didn't really care - after about five minutes I was in the zone and the painting below emerged - I like this work - it's very present for me - I don't think it's a big mystery why it worked this time - I had to just get out of the way.....



mixed media on board, 'She Couldn't Stop Crying'

And on a side note - after I finished this painting yesterday, I grabbed another board sitting against the wall that had been bugging me - I cleaned my brushes on it - then I realized the piece was on my website for sale! Now I had ruined it! Oh, No! Serious?! And then I thought, so what? Who has been banging at my door to purchase the piece - no one! So what's the difference - just take it down until it's reworked silly - Geez, how many times do I have to get over myself? many, many, many times I'm sure. Have a great week everyone!

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