I went to Brooklyn Artists Gym for a figure drawing session, long pose.

Thoughts I had was I’m painting the world inside me, not the model.

Of course, it helps to have a model and it was good to be in that space, today.

But I also realize why I’m not there more often…art is a solitary passion and I like being with people.

Also, I am figuring out what the next step is, and I don’t know what it is yet. Maybe a change of medium and approach is needed, here.

Off to Dumbo today to meet one of my painter friends, and I could go to an east village art opening tonight, but I am not sure I will.

Finally, I like the quick stetches I do with the iPhone, they are suited to my short, ADD type, attention span, I just wish I had more control over the process.

I’m enjoying the applications for the iPhone that allow sketching - the transparencies in color are really amazing - and while the precision isn’t there yet - I like the effects I’m getting using a program called IDoodle2Lite

This “sketch” was nearly effortless for me to produce, yet I felt it was expressive of unique choices I’m making - in other words, it’s Art.

By the way, an in a curious way, I’ve beent thinking a lot about why I’m not painting much this summer - and came up with something that I call our “narritative voice” - and wrote a post about it at The Analytics Guru titled - Being Uncritically your own best friend.   I also wrote another post today on More on our own nariation which puts forward my philosophy the importance of storytelling to our own consciousness, first.

We decide, I believe, the meaning of the various things that happen to us and those around us, for own lives - and then I also cover, in the later post, how events can be painted by others - to be one way or the other - but how we need to make decisions on our lives based on a naritive that works for us.

And I tried that with painting  - which I talked about in the first post - how I portray, to myself, my own activity, or lack of it, this summer, is going to lead to how I want to talk about to others and what choices I actually have before me - in the future.

It might not really be just about Art in New York - but have noticed that objects, services and product placements can be Art, and when I was in The Apple Store, tonight, on Prince Street, in Lower Manhattan, I was reminded of it.

For one thing, every since thing that Apple has produced, is simplified, as if you don’t have to think about it - just go ahead and use it - I give some examples in my video, above.

By the way, I have a bunch of drawings and things like that to scan, so I can put them up here - but even so - I haven’t been painting as much this summer - between traveling and writing to my three blogs, including this one, and working on other types of projects - I’ve often been wondering, what’s the next step for me to take here.  Don’t know the answer to that one, not yet, anyway.