Life is so crazy; haven’t been over to my studio to paint for almost two weeks – but I will spend the better part of Saturday and maybe, Monday, painting – and I have on my mind a still life, sorta like a Paris Still Life, to do.

Which reminds me that life has a way of repeating itself as 20 years ago, when I went to Paris for the first time, I also painted a Paris Still Life – but it was a much more drawn out painting – and I remember selling – it was a commission, for a 1000 bucks.   Here’s the Paris Still Life I painted – and I remember it took me a month to painting and I did quite a bit of over painting on it.

I think the painting was 30″ x 40″, or something like that – oil on canvas.

 I don’t think in terms of money, but I did then – I could think of little else as I was always worried about not having enough.  I barely made it to Paris 20 years ago, and all I did was hang out in the city and speak to American Woman – no one else would speak to me.  

Thankfully, the upcoming trip won’t be a repeat exactly as I am going with people, or meeting them at any rate.

But the Still Life in my mind, if I get to do it – will, probably be one, or at most, two sittings and include the World View of Paul Cezanne and the Journal of Eugene Delacroix as well as a book on the South of France…and any other bric a brac that I can find at the studio.

Which reminds me, I bought some Art Supplies to take to with me tonight – some very oily Oil Pastels and two sketch pads … I need little else as what I’ll paint is much as I paint here – pastels are much faster and less messy … and they are much quicker to work in – and require less commitment in terms of setup and finishing up, cleaning, etc.  But then again, I’m pretty messy with my art supplies, once I start using them.

With out forgetting to mention it – I did go to a great opening last night at the Fuse Gallery in the East Village – and wrote it up on Webmetricsguru.com – here it is – Lifelogging event – Destroy Television – Jerry Paffendorf, Christian Westbrook – Fuse Gallery NYC.  I even put 7 YouTube movies in the post so you can see for yourself what the opening was all about (hint – Second Life and Art).

Some people are telling me that Second Life is not that important – and maybe they’re right – I tend to go with what I think is important at the  moment – and honestly…I don’t know who I am anymore – pulled in so many directions and wanting to contain them all.

But I started out – as an artist and I remain, fundamentally, an artist; a painter.