"What are you going to do with three days off?"
"I don't know. Probably paint, paint, and paint."
My boss thinks it's so strange that I could be so completely happy with painting or drawing so much. He sees it as sitting inside the house in the same spot for a very long time.
I read a little blurb from an artist today that said that she believed that artists were a lot like cats. We are pleased with being in one place for hours, narcissistic and have a shameless need to be loved and understood. I would agree with a lot of that...not the narcissistic part of course, for I am lovely. haha
The truth is we have so much going on in our heads in reaction to what we are working on that we have no desire or need to go elsewhere. We lose track of time. We do not care that we are wearing two different socks, and our hair looks like a bad version of an Elvira 'do. We do not realize that our leg is asleep...until we take a break and we finally acknowledge that we are still confined to these bodies of ours. It is important to take walks inbetween sessions and be active...I haven't been exercising like I should lately. I'm going to get back into that this weekend as its the perfect time for it.
Tonight I'll be layering gesso onto a couple of sheets of paper in preparation for painting over the next few days. I may also pull out my last 18x24" canvas that I have on hand. How fast it can be to go through them! Because the canvas is ready, I will probably begin a work on that tonight. I have decided on a composition that would be well suited for it and am curious to see how it will turn out. It is another train image.
In the last few days, I've done some real flops. One was a painting with oils and graphite, and the other was a graphite drawing. Both lacked structure and energy. I didn't stop when I should have on the painting. These two will be great for the gallery setting of a dumpster. Moving on! :)
I hope you have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous weekend! What fun things do you have in the works for the weekend?
Thanks for reading, and love to all of you!
"I don't know. Probably paint, paint, and paint."
My boss thinks it's so strange that I could be so completely happy with painting or drawing so much. He sees it as sitting inside the house in the same spot for a very long time.
I read a little blurb from an artist today that said that she believed that artists were a lot like cats. We are pleased with being in one place for hours, narcissistic and have a shameless need to be loved and understood. I would agree with a lot of that...not the narcissistic part of course, for I am lovely. haha
The truth is we have so much going on in our heads in reaction to what we are working on that we have no desire or need to go elsewhere. We lose track of time. We do not care that we are wearing two different socks, and our hair looks like a bad version of an Elvira 'do. We do not realize that our leg is asleep...until we take a break and we finally acknowledge that we are still confined to these bodies of ours. It is important to take walks inbetween sessions and be active...I haven't been exercising like I should lately. I'm going to get back into that this weekend as its the perfect time for it.
Tonight I'll be layering gesso onto a couple of sheets of paper in preparation for painting over the next few days. I may also pull out my last 18x24" canvas that I have on hand. How fast it can be to go through them! Because the canvas is ready, I will probably begin a work on that tonight. I have decided on a composition that would be well suited for it and am curious to see how it will turn out. It is another train image.
In the last few days, I've done some real flops. One was a painting with oils and graphite, and the other was a graphite drawing. Both lacked structure and energy. I didn't stop when I should have on the painting. These two will be great for the gallery setting of a dumpster. Moving on! :)
I hope you have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous weekend! What fun things do you have in the works for the weekend?
Thanks for reading, and love to all of you!
2 comments:
Your comment about taking a break between sessions really struck home for me. When I was working in my studio at the UW, I took long walking breaks through the lake shore neighborhood just to the east. It was a wealthy area and so I almost never saw other people other than the hired gardeners. But the gardens were lovely, the streets rolled up an down, and I could breathe and let my mind go.
That sounds so refreshing!
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