Studio Practice

for theresa

2009-01-13T20:27:00.003-05:00

2008-08-26T21:51:00.000-04:00

looking for peace

2008-08-22T21:34:00.002-04:00

2008-08-22T09:58:00.001-04:00

can't sleep

2008-08-20T02:41:00.000-04:00

please ignore the dark shadow in the middle of this piece

2008-08-17T15:42:00.006-04:00

I had sold this piece at last year's Open Studio to two women, one of whom I saw today (yes, I did leave the house for a moment).

She mentioned this painting and I remembered painting it. I decided to post it even though the photo of it has a big shadow in the middle of it. I will have to get Mary Anne to show me how to fix it in Photoshop.

I have done a little work this weekend and have a little, tiny, eensy bit of hope that I will be okay if I do the things I need to do. Sorry if that sounds vague but I don't know you very well, do I?

water logic

2008-08-13T22:13:00.001-04:00

radical acceptance, thinkin' 'bout

2008-08-12T15:12:00.001-04:00

positive intentions

2008-08-11T22:22:00.002-04:00

another

2008-08-05T23:47:00.000-04:00

one still life - lemon

2008-08-05T23:44:00.000-04:00

a repeat

2008-07-21T19:30:00.001-04:00

2008-07-17T14:23:00.000-04:00

Hyde Park ArtScene

2008-07-07T12:51:00.005-04:00

I will be there in my booth Saturday, July 19, from 4 - 9 pm.

Please come.

today

2008-07-05T15:54:00.001-04:00

Emotion. Words.

Waste. No clear delight.

No light under my fingers. The room, The

Walls, silent & deadly. Not

Music

-Leroi Jones

Note to self

2008-07-03T15:08:00.004-04:00

Continuing to regularly post this paintings and drawings - sending my work out into the cyber ether - is a large part of my studio practice. Right now, in fact, with this latest episode of depression I was not able to do anything other than my little sketchbooks.

I started this blog (hate that word) - this Painter's Journal to move me into developing a more rigorous and conscious practice. And I suppose it is in a very slow way. Or maybe its the analysis, or maybe its the medicine, or maybe its the love of a good woman. Who knows. I find myself thinking of what to post, what I will use for a title and, especially, I wonder, "does anyone look at this crap? If they do why don't they respond in some way? What the Fuck??'

It feels lonely but important to me. So I continue. By keeping this journal I am talking to myself, to the artist in me and I am saying, "Come on! You can do it! Keep working. Keep trying."

Analysis

2008-07-01T23:02:00.000-04:00

Well, it does feel this way sometimes.

Less dead

2008-07-01T22:38:00.004-04:00

The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens.

--William Carlos Williams

Struggling. Of course, the fact that I can even say that is proof (to me) that I am somewhat better today.

For the first day of summer

2008-06-21T07:57:00.001-04:00

Saturday post

2008-06-21T07:51:00.000-04:00

another one

2008-06-17T18:38:00.005-04:00

I always have my sketchbook with me and make these very busy drawings. I also carry watercolor pencils and a brush so I can paint. If you click on these images they will show a lot more detail...

recent sketchbook image

2008-06-17T18:33:00.000-04:00

Painting on mylar

2008-06-17T08:25:00.000-04:00

Words to live by . . .

2008-05-18T12:15:00.006-04:00

Clownliness is next to Godliness.

I actually hate clowns. They totally creep me out. I don't even know why I am posting this. It is actually a perverse portrait of someone and after I drew it I realized the clown connection. She always creeped me out, too.

SOLD!!

2008-05-14T00:19:00.002-04:00

I sold a painting!! The above, Wandering Thought #1, is now in the private collection of Ellen and Campbell Burke of Jamaica Plain, MA.

Boy, do they have good taste!!