Been very busy lately – and couple of projects that I had to handle make it really hard to focus on painting, but one project may be a gallery space to handle artists – it’s  still young idea and I can’t talk about it, yet, but I’m hopeful.

Anyway – it’s strange how in my social network of friends I get many opinions about things like travel – and how some of my friends think a trip to France for me this spring is good, others think it’s bad, and I’ve tended to crowd source opinions, not to obsolve myself of making decisions, but simply to have the best set of opinions and facts before deciding.

I realized, as long as I’m willing to take responsibility for making my own decisions, there’s nothing wrong with getting several opinions; one of my friends who studies Reiki and lives in Germany, says a trip to France feels stressful, and recommends against it.   I didn’t seek that opinion, but I’d be a fool to discount it.

On the other hand, another friend suggested London, where I’ve never been, and the vibes seem better for a trip there.

My painting is about that decision making process – it’s about how I come to decide what to do, how to take action, and my feelings around deciding.

Oh, by the way, this is an iPhone painting, but I’ve been working on it for a few weeks, on and off.

Went out this afternoon for a long walk, a bite to eat and an art opening later this evening – but I didn’t take my sketchbook with me – it was hot and I left home suddenly.  It had rained a lot earlier in the morning and afternoon but was clear, sunny and humid after wards.

As I sat in Windsor Terrace, in an air conditioned cafe, I wished I had my notebook/sketchpad with me, but I didn’t – though I had my new 3G IPhone on hand and decided to see if there was a sketching or painting program I could download and play with – and I found only two – but found I liked NetSketch better – so I bought it – and here’s a review of the NetSketch iPhone Application on Gizmodo – Apps We Like: NetSketch Collaborative Drawing Shares Your Chicken Scratch Over WiFi along with the video that goes with it – though I didn’t share my screen – it brings up interesting ideas of what one could do with it (who knows, perhaps teach art – or collaborate on art and design):

NetSketch for iPhone (iPhone App Store) from B Geezy on Vimeo.

I also did 3 Sketches of my own this afternoon and decided that I’m going to do many more – I still have to figure out how to get the level of control I’m used to in traditional media – but I really had a good time on these drawings and felt, that perhaps, I got a glimmer of a new direction for me.  Here’s the drawings I did:

This was my very first drawing using NetSketch on the 3G iPhone – it was done at the Connecticut Muffin on 15th Street and Windsor Terrace – looking into the park circle and movie theatre in the background,

Painting the inside of the cafe, was somewhat challenging to do that with the level of control I have in NetSketch – but I enjoyed what I created, even if it’s not accurate, per se, to the image in frount of me.

Kept thinking I should try abstracts – so I did.

Tired, also went to an opening at the Red Horse Cafe on 12th Street and 6th Avenue in Park Slope; found I may be able to have a one month show there if I want, as early as November.

Interesting.