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April 23, 2012

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Not Sleeping

And the sleep thing.... its a tricky one. I told you. I know I have to get up at middle of the night o'clock and I can't fall asleep. I didn't take a nap today. I worked out. I kept moving all day. So why does my brain not want to shut off? I could go out to the studio and paint. I'd totally do it in my nightgown and everything. But once I start that up there's no way I will wind down and sleep. Grrr. Random thought: At my daughter's soccer practice tonight a pigeon flew right into the middle of our group of parents and just hung out with us. I think it was actually someone's pet. It looked to clean and healthy to be a street pigeon. We don't have that many street pigeons in our neighborhood anyway. And it was not afraid of people at all. Art things because I told you if you wanted to know about art related things you would want to come to the blog. I cannot sit around and wait for inspiration to hit. I need...

Stealing time

My schedule is so chaotic. There has been very little time for painting. Still I manage to squeeze in some time. I've also been studying other artists. Refueling my creative reserves if you will. This piece is still coming along very slowly. I've had some battles trying to define the back ground. Deciding I may not like the long rectangular shape in the foreground. Making new adjustments. I've been writing a lot about my pieces as I work on them. I've found that helps me make better decisions on what I'm doing. This is the terrible plein air watercolor I did a couple of weeks ago. I brought it home and started adding to it. Its starting to get there but I may end up doing some collage over it. This was a very good exercise for me. Yes, it was not my best painting but I learned a lot in the process. Forever the student. Working on another landscape. This is the under painting. A process I almost completely stopped doing as I started doing ...

Never There

I've been working on my sketchbook project.... well, a bit. I'm working rather hard on it, like its not a sketchbook and that is slowing me down. And then I feel like I need to walk away and do something else. I find myself daydreaming at work of paintings I want to do. It makes me a bit crazy. Like I need to push at the edges of my shell to make more space. Sometimes I stop whatever I'm doing and sketch out an idea quickly on a post it note and then I stick it to my book to review later. I have a lot of post its stuck to surfaces in my studio now. Sometimes I just grab them and throw them in the recycle bin. Sometimes they become larger sketches on canvas or paper. The thing is, I've become terribly obsessed with artmaking and that is not very practical for me right now. I'm living in my head a bit more than I think is healthy. I suppose this too shall pass. And hey! Its Friday!

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