Monday, October 18, 2010

Drawings?








Yes, I've been moderately productive lately -- at just about everything except updating my blog.

Here's a few recent drawings. The first two are in the show at spotArt, the third is a study for a painting which I felt was fun enough to include in this post, and the last one was the mystery piece which was raffled off during the 'Indispensable elements' opening. Suffice to say, someone got quite a deal...

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

... Oops.

So, I suffered what can only be described as a catastrophic collapse of my art goals for the past week, which involved the following:

1. Finish 'Alpha Trinity' -- *FAIL*

2. Finish 'Omega Trinity' (2nd half of the diptych) -- *FAIL*

3. Finish the 24" x 60" seated nude from March/April -- *FAIL*

4. Finish the 2nd half of the Homer diptych -- *FAIL*

5. Frame 'Sunday 9:05' and 'Masonic Gifts' -- *FAIL*

6. Deliver *anything* to Echo Arts for the St. Paul Art Crawl -- *FAIL*


All of these tasks were started, and were the reason for a substantial amount of lost sleep over the past two weeks. #4 was the cause of a two-hour night of sleep the week before, #5 almost cost me my job at Tradewinds, #1 and #2 are a consequence of personal standards and those directly lead to failure #6. Everything was at partly a result of expecting to have seven full days to work before leaving for Montreal on 10/4, but being left with just three (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday). I tend to get asked to work at the least convenient times. In the future I may just request time off before any showing...

I know I'm being a bit rough on myself, but my self-acknowledged failure to achieve those previously established (and admittedly lofty) goals doesn't mean that I regret the choices I made that lead to those 'failures'. As much as I enjoy the reward of pushing myself as an artist, I enjoy good company far more.

My artistic challenge for the next five days is coming up with five absurd hairstyles to test-ride along the streets of Montreal (while not losing my passport in the process). I'm looking forward to returning home and spending a month without deadlines to finish the trinity (both halves, as it's now a full-on diptych rather than 'point and optional counter-point').