This Thanksgiving Holiday wasn’t too bad – like I said in my last post – I tend to get depressed on Holidays but this time, I managed to work a lot of alternatives, often by meeting with friends and yesterday, it was Janice‘s turn, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Among the shows I saw – Art and Love in Renaissance Italy and a brief stroll into Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.- also took another look at The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions and the European Painting Collection – just to take a quick look at the Cezanne’s, which I usually do every time I visit the museum.   It’s also fun hanging out with friends and taking walks at the edge of Central Park.   Had planned to sketch from sclupture – but didn’t end up doing that.

But I did do two paintings on my iPhone yesterday – both of an orchard plant I bought on Thanksgiving day – and I tried to get the quality of these images to match, as best I could, the way they appear on my iPhone, as I’m creating them – though an exact match is next to impossible.   In translating from one format to another, something is always lost, or, better word, altered – but I think I got the images to be close enough, and sharp/crisp enough to match the feelings of the drawings on the iPhone.

This painting, I did last night, maybe spending an hour or two on it – I’ve been really wanting to paint the orchards since I saw the plant – but I did a sketch earlier yesterday, before I went over to the Metropolitan – and decided to leave it along and not try to improve it.

In fact, I wonder, now my paintings, done this way on the iPhone, can be replayed, what does finished mean, anymore? (by the way, the colors in the CollectingSmiles.com site are also more muted than the originals – but you can see the creation process of any painting uploaded to the site, if it was done in the Colors program).

Can’t anyone just stop the redraw at some particular point and say … I like it that way?

They can.

I just wish I could figure out how to monitize the work I do this way – I suppose I’m having the same problem focusing this issue as I am in deciding rent studio space, again, at the Brooklyn Artists Gym – do I want to do actual, 3D paintings (paintings on paper or canvas) or is it enough to create them on devices like the iPhone, and display them on my blogs?

Is there any real difference – if I’m not monetizing them that well, anyway?

Or is this the beginning of a new phase in Art?

I’m still trying to figure, this one, out.