Yesterday I posted about Paris and the Still Life I did 20 years in Been Busy getting ready for Paris and Aix.  Well, I did accomplish what I wanted at my studio today and also took some online videos which I’ll try to share here.
Here’s the first painting - and I actually like it better - it’s a nude study of a model named Elizabeth and it took about an hour (if I had more time I might have worked on it longer…but who says a painting is ever really done?).
When I look at my work, sometimes I get a “shock” - it’s as if I can feel my energy in it; and reading the World View of Paul Cezanne by Jane Roberts confirms, I think, all that goes into work - all the energy transmitted by touch - all that can felt but not spoken.
And here’s the movie I made as I painted this painting. I was thinking, and mentioned Amy Crehore’s name because she’s often asked me about how Brooklyn Artist Gym looks - well, a movie is worth at least several thousand words!
Well, I did a painting today - but I don’t feel I achieved what I set out to do - Oh, I painted what was in my mind ….alright - it’s just that what was in my mind was very vague.
There was a couple of thoughts in my mind and a couple of lessons - so I’ll talk about that.
Thoughts in my mind as I painted this (I believe I’m guided as I paint - the ideas I have while painting often “come to me” - so I like to note them:
- I like Mike Moran’s idea of trying things quickly - may have 100 “failures” for 1 “success”. I don’t know if this painting is a failure - but it’s sure not a “success” - but i still learn from it.
- My idea was “fuzzy” - I set out with a vague idea that objects in Second Life (IE: a Coke Bottle - Branding) are 100 times more powerful than in regular life because there’s little “noise” in SL.
- “while I had “real life” in the left and “second life” in the right - there’s no relationship in the composition that would make it work. On the other hand, the painting shows my real state - not knowing how to integrate real life and second life yet.
What I learnt:
- An artist’s work should be evaluated by the totality of it - not on any particular work. My work is uneven - but so is everyone else’s.
- I’m having a struggle with the materials I’m using and the size / composition of the sketches / paintings I’m doing - but judging from the other artists I’m seeing - I’m not alone in this - several other’s in my studio - several other artists, in general, have the same issue.
- Chalk Pastels, while great for freeing me up - might not always be the right medium to work in. I find that what I gain in color I lose in control. The best solution may be a more oily pastel.  At any rate, I think integrating oil pastels and pastels may work sometimes, but now always.
- The Energy wants to go in it’s own direction - I think it’s better to do more experimentation, as I’m beginning to do. It’s not possible for Artists who are “searchers” to know they will succeed in every painting - for people who “search” part of the painting will be “groping for the right combinations of colors, the right composition, etc.
That’s about enough for tonight. Yes, I did try to use text to integrate my idea that Second Life brands are much more powerful there than here - but I did not succeed - maybe I just need to work on the idea a little longer.
Boy, is this FUN! I did a painting in my studio yesterday - Another Studio Painting at BAG. I was busy writing up a report for one of my clients, an Architect, whose work I’ve been promoting for the last 2 years.
Anyway, in their report I mentioned they should take their house plans and make stamps, prints, T-Shirts and Ties with it - especially to those who buy the architectual house plans.
Anyway - I had so much fun with it - and Zazzle.com - I decided to take my own Artwork and make a tie out of it - the painting I did yesterday looks quite nice as a tie - and I did not actually have Zazzle.com make me the tie yet - but their platform allows you to see what the product is going to look like and control the layout and design.
So….here’s my first tie using Zazzle.com
Your product, My Studio, is now in the Zazzle marketplace!
