Yesterday, I was feeling a bit panicky about the amount of work that I had ready for the show coming up in April, but I'm a bit farther along than I thought. All it took to ease my mind was a good look at what I had completed already. So far, so good. I still want and need to get a few more pieces done over the next month and-a-half, but I think I'm on a good time line now. Now, I have to get into mild adjustments, attaching hanging hardware, signing the pieces and wrapping them so the chances of wandering paint spatters from things I'm still working don't find their way to completed surfaces. One of my least favorite tasks is having to deal with unwanted surprises and repainting a piece with a show coming up.
All the work for the airport show is done. I still have to go through and select what I consider the best of the lot and that's that. Those works have had a profound effect on the direction that I'm taking some of the paintings and other works I'm preparing for my solo show.
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"...we create problems to push the work forward..." In conversation with painter, Keith Crowley last night.
1 comment:
boy, am i ever glad that it is not just me! i wonder if all artists go through this one? thinking they aren't as far along enough, or good enough or whatever the inner critic is purring at the time. and then you look crefully, inventory things and see that it's not true. and all that energy wasting on worry. okay, i'm speaking for myself here, tim. but, heck, i want to break down the lies that the inner critic is so fond of using.......and save all that creative energy for the canvas and paint, and wax and collaged bits and bobs. makes more sense to me. and makes for more peace!! thanks for the reminder!
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