It's my best sale in several years, and a terrific start towards my 2016 goal of selling more of my work.
I'll post the newest painting before the end of the month, too.
20 January 2016
One step towards my resolution: SOLD!
Tomorrow, I'm picking up That Certain Inner Radiance from Noir Arts & Oddities, as it was purchased by a local collector over the weekend.
It's my best sale in several years, and a terrific start towards my 2016 goal of selling more of my work.
I'll post the newest painting before the end of the month, too.
It's my best sale in several years, and a terrific start towards my 2016 goal of selling more of my work.
I'll post the newest painting before the end of the month, too.
20 December 2015
2016 Goal...Learn how to sell my art!
I'm not going to write a list of goals for the coming year this year, as I really only have one goal--figure out how to sell my paintings.
And, that one goal depends on another important thing happening--make lots of art to sell.
When I've set specific numeric goals in the past, it hasn't really "worked". So I'm not going to psych myself up to make one painting a month, or anything along those lines.
And I'm not going to go looking for a show, or a gallery, until I have at least ten good, solid paintings finished. (That's not a goal; that's a simple fact.)
So, my "goal" is to 1) make lots of new art, 2) find a gallery that will offer me a show, and 3) sell a bunch of the art in that show.
That's it.
Now, back to painting!
P.S. It's always better for me to work out my goals once I've already started working on them. "Arterial Trees" is nearly done, and I started a new painting last night...
And, that one goal depends on another important thing happening--make lots of art to sell.
When I've set specific numeric goals in the past, it hasn't really "worked". So I'm not going to psych myself up to make one painting a month, or anything along those lines.
And I'm not going to go looking for a show, or a gallery, until I have at least ten good, solid paintings finished. (That's not a goal; that's a simple fact.)
So, my "goal" is to 1) make lots of new art, 2) find a gallery that will offer me a show, and 3) sell a bunch of the art in that show.
That's it.
Now, back to painting!
P.S. It's always better for me to work out my goals once I've already started working on them. "Arterial Trees" is nearly done, and I started a new painting last night...
05 December 2015
04 November 2015
New Painting In Progress..."Arterial Trees"
Several years ago I bought three identical frames, with the hopes of making either a three-painting series, or a tryptich.
I opted for the latter.
This is at the very early stages, and it's going to involve several layers.
The background (sky) is airbrushed acrylics; the arterial tree is in oils.
Much more to follow...
I opted for the latter.
This is at the very early stages, and it's going to involve several layers.
The background (sky) is airbrushed acrylics; the arterial tree is in oils.
Much more to follow...
31 October 2015
Reflecting on InkTober...
No, I didn't post a new drawing every day for Inktober.
Not even close. (Obviously.)
Yet, I did create a new drawing (that will be transferred to a canvas or panel this week, and which will become the start of a new painting by the end of the year). Also, I did start a new painting, which you will see here shortly.
Perhaps tomorrow!
But, more importantly, InkTober did give me a chance to think about my art--and my art-making habits,--nd I arrived at a few sobering realizations, many of which I already knew, but hadn't internalized, or actualized.
(The time to internalize and actualize, is now. Duh!)
I've come up with TONS of ideas for paintings, sculptures, and installations, over the years. Hundreds easily, perhaps thousands.
I've discarded most of these (in all honesty, perfectly good) ideas because they remind me of another artist's work, or because they don't say what I think "my art" ought to say, or both.
This is a problem, first, because most people haven't seen the variety of art and artists I have, so they wouldn't recognize the similarities--and second, if I create a number of pieces that each look "sort of like" a certain artist's work, together they won't' look like any one artist's work, and so will be taken as "my work", anyway. Third, if I had bothered to develop these ideas past the "concept" stage, in all likelihood the simple act of me actually working on them would have taken them far beyond the "derivative" stage, and into a place where they would be built from "my style".
So, enough navel-gazing, enough "soul-searching", enough procrastination, enough feeling like I'm not good enough, or original enough--and far too many excuses.
New art is coming.
Lots of new art.
Coming soon!
Not even close. (Obviously.)
Yet, I did create a new drawing (that will be transferred to a canvas or panel this week, and which will become the start of a new painting by the end of the year). Also, I did start a new painting, which you will see here shortly.
Perhaps tomorrow!
But, more importantly, InkTober did give me a chance to think about my art--and my art-making habits,--nd I arrived at a few sobering realizations, many of which I already knew, but hadn't internalized, or actualized.
(The time to internalize and actualize, is now. Duh!)
I've come up with TONS of ideas for paintings, sculptures, and installations, over the years. Hundreds easily, perhaps thousands.
I've discarded most of these (in all honesty, perfectly good) ideas because they remind me of another artist's work, or because they don't say what I think "my art" ought to say, or both.
This is a problem, first, because most people haven't seen the variety of art and artists I have, so they wouldn't recognize the similarities--and second, if I create a number of pieces that each look "sort of like" a certain artist's work, together they won't' look like any one artist's work, and so will be taken as "my work", anyway. Third, if I had bothered to develop these ideas past the "concept" stage, in all likelihood the simple act of me actually working on them would have taken them far beyond the "derivative" stage, and into a place where they would be built from "my style".
So, enough navel-gazing, enough "soul-searching", enough procrastination, enough feeling like I'm not good enough, or original enough--and far too many excuses.
New art is coming.
Lots of new art.
Coming soon!
20 October 2015
Work in Progress...
It's much easier to see "flaws" in your work if you step back from it, turn it upside down, or take a picture of it and look at it smaller. I see lots of mistakes on this--and lots of potential, too.
14 October 2015
InkTober...
Here's a figure sketch in progress. This is "replacing" a figure Ive worked (and re-worked) over the past year (yeah, I know) that I have realized is too stiff. This is better. (Again, because this is for a painting, it probably won't be inked...)
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