Well it's been a minute since the last update, been really busy -- going through some transitions here in the first quarter of 2011. Change is doing me good, but is also very time consuming.
Where to start, well the photography course ended -- probably the mo
st beneficial element I gained from that course is the degree to which I learned to look, to really see. I had forgotten that, being so long since college and all the darkroom courses I took then. The benefits of really looking at the world around you are innumerable, and in the end, I believe, help you to really see yourself. I think through artwork an artist best gets to reveal themselves, but the introspective study has to be there for any work to have soul... well, in my opinion. There is a lot of soul-less artwork out there that people really love, so c'est la vie. I like the knowledge I've gained, the perspective you could say, of my exterior and interior world. My mother gifted me a Nikon d3100 when the class was over and I took it to California. Next week some photos will be up, for sure. My next big photo date is hopefully going to be some experimental night
photography up on the Parkway.
The Artist Way course ended as well, and this course was much more labor intensive than the photography course. To be honest, as much as the discipline and routine of meeting once a week was good for me, I looked forward more to reading the book on my own and doing the homework on my own. I liked that time to journal and plan and create. Having the weekly discipline to do the chapter work, have an artist's date and set creative goals have started to sink in and today was probably the most successful artist's date I've had since the course ended. I try to set aside 1-2 nights a week to work on art and writing, starting to get the routine down.
One of those nights is always Wednesday night. The other one is more flexible. I like to have one night dedicated to creating visual art, and one to writing -- the title of this blog is actually from a poem I am in the midst of. I have been hesitant to publish poetry on here, but I have been reading the poetry blog of James Nave and if he can do it, well it's definitely a consideration... now I just have to push the inner critic aside...
I have also entered the LAAFF poster art contest, I just sent them my at-hand portfolio and of course the link to this blog. Will see what happens, fingers crossed!
The above photos are of a painting I am currently working on, a work-in-progress but I am really digging where it is going and where it is taking me. Nice.
