Planning. If you’re one of those people who makes lists, like I am, we plan to plan. I just made my yearly plan, then broke it down into my monthly plan, then weekly and then daily… what I’m doing each day toward that goal…toward that plan. Now the hard part.. execution…
Category: Random Thoughts
The New Year!
I’m back! The holidays swallowed me!
I love the new year. Making new commitments. Resurrecting plans. Making new ones!
I’ve been all over the west since last we talked…
Colorado, Arizona, Texas and back home to California.
Family, friends, business.
Nearly all cleaned up from Christmas
Back to exercising.
(Starting my P90X again…God help me!)
Adopted a new filly colt. Learning to train a new baby.
Up to my neck in my textile paintings.
Making plans for my garden.
Roses and hydrangeas are dying.
Tell me how you make your new plans?
Studio time
Working in my studio after many days of absence. It always feels good to be here. I’m working on some house portraits. One for a friend who wants a drawing of her Tucson house for her Christmas card. One for an old friend who wants a painting of his childhood home. Trying to finish it for his birthday in October. And finishing up one of a new house my girlfriend bought a year ago. None are for hire. Well, one was, but I told my friend I would do it for free…need the practice and need the portfolio piece. I’m working from photographs and work in watercolor. I feel like breaking out though of this “safe” style and do something more like Edward Hopper
Painting by Edward Hopper
or Bay Area artist Robert Bechtle Robert Bechtle – Works | Louis. K. Meisel Gallery.
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But let’s just get to it. I need to get out of my head and into my studio and keep working.
Hello world!
Welcome to my blog! Six years ago I quit my job, went back to school to finish my degree in Art Practice, graduated and started in. After too many years of working in financial services computer technology, marrying too many men and raising too many children, I became the artist I always wanted to be. I had my first art show when I was 17 and my next show when I was 57.
For at least the next year I’m going to share my journey as I get ready to walk into yet another scary adventure. I’m quitting my job again after a year of working again in financial services, paid some bills, traveled a little and took a very long siesta after I graduated last year. My work contract will end in November and I’m going to be work as a full-time artist. This will take some life style changes, courage and a lot of hard work. So I hope you follow along and comment often.
Let’s get this party started….