What can I say, I changed my mind, yet again. I got three paintings into what I thought would be a series and lost interest. Not just lost interest, but went totally blank, disengaged, zoned out! I got to wrapped up in adding realistic elements to abstract ideas (an idea that has worked for many artists, but not me).
So, here I go again. I sat down with a scrap book that I had made in college, this old book inspires me. I made it when I was trying to figure out what direction I wanted to go with my work. A very wise and extremely talented professor told me to go through a huge stack of art magazines and pull out the paintings that I liked, then divide them into sections, portraits, still lifes, abstracts......the thickest section, by far, was the non-objective section. My book was filled with paintings by Rothko, Frankenthaler, Pollack...etc. What I had found out is that I love non-objective paintings, I love to look at them, I love to make them and, no matter what, it is the type of art the feeds my soul. So this is where I will happily be spending the rest of my summer studio time.
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Good for you! Decisions are often hard to come by, especially when choosing between one love and another. Perhaps it's the 'mother' in you that makes you want to multi-task and combine some of your ideas, I know the feeling. If you picked right, you'll know it soon enough.
Thanks for the encouraging words KJ. I think you are right about the multi-tasking, as a single parent it has become a lifestyle. It is artists like you that give me inspiration to jump in with both feet. I love your work!!
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