It’s been an overwhelming month in studio. I saw a lot of art this month, worked on several tangential projects that eroded my time, and tried to keep pushing things forward. Here’s how the month went:
All posts in studio
August ’22 Studio Update
An upcoming impromptu trip to New York City served as a flimsy suggestion of a deadline. It worked! ‘Earth’s Mightiest Zeroes’ is now my latest finished oil painting.
July ’22 Studio Update
There’s no better feeling as an artist to feel like you’re in control of your own work. It may sound weird to non-artists, but there’s a high percentage of the time in studio when you’re holding on for dear life. All you can do is to let things take you where they go. All one…
June ’22 Studio Update
One of the things I teach in my drawing classes is not to trust your brain. You have to learn to let your eyes and hand communicate to each other. Human brains are wired to identify patterns, rely on prior knowledge and make snap decisions in milliseconds. These are survival lessons taught over thousands of…
May ’22 Studio Update
Stuck between looking back and looking ahead is the worst place to be. Flannery O’Conner’s Wise Blood got it right. “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”
April ’22 Studio Update
Is this the end or not? What ‘s going on anymore? Does anything make sense? Is it really the fall or the landing that kills you? It’s been another month in studio.
March ’22 Studio Update
‘Busy’ is such a dumb non-descriptive term. It hits the perfect note of bland non-response as a general ‘good’ or ‘fine’ that you pawn off on anybody you’d never like to have an actual conversation with. One thing I try to drill into my students is that when they are looking at their drawing or…
February ’22 Studio Update
After a month of adjusting back from a long trip, it was good to turn the heat up in studio. I started in on a few fresh batches of paintings, and half-jokingly started telling students I wanted to paint 28 paintings in 28 days.
January ’22 Studio Update
It’s always fun returning to studio after a long layaway. Refreshed, with my mind teeming with infinite possibilities, I’m ready for the new year. So more writing, more painting, and more showing! Of course, there’s a bunch of logistical hurdles to jump first, but here goes…
December ’21 Studio Update
It’s kind of fitting filling the last pages of my sketchbook comes as the last days of the year are upon us. I’ve been working on some quick ink sketches, still modeling compositions and themes using values and boat imagery. With my sketchbook and mind full, January should be a productive month.