Pastels, 19″ x 24″. Second page of the old pad of paper I mentioned before. I’m not sure I like this one. Again, I started with no clear direction in mind. The exercise is mostly about getting to know how the colors mix together and learning how to stay within the lines. It reminds me of my coloring book days, really. So childish. Deliberately cartoonish. No real sense of scale. I need to start doing real still life stuff, but…
OK, so my little behind the scenes gig is up at Bam’s blog. Feel free to read and comment. Share this post:
Every time I move, I rediscover my possessions. Some of them hide forgotten in closets, waiting for me to remember to use them, like a spiral-bound sketch pad, 19″ x 24″, its first page still blank, just as on the day my mother got it for me, some dozen or more years ago. After a particularly long and hard day of moving, I had this urge to put aside everything, to forget about all the boxes yet to be unpacked,…
I actually haven’t been working much lately, since I’ve been packing. But here’s what I’ve done since the last time I posted my work: This will probably be the last time I post from the old place, and even this post has been pre-published to show up “in the future”—as this is being read, I’m probably mostly packed up and getting ready to unplug the computers. Share this post:
I owe e-mail to people who have queried me about work. If any of them are reading this, please know that I plan to get back to you by the end of the week. I might be offline for a week or two next month due to circumstances I will discuss in a future post, so I’m trying to get ahead while I can. I’ve even given up my regular blogging schedule to allow myself a breather, which I find…