Tag: art

Fail

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I know.

I don’t try enough to win all the time

So falling short of an art competition should be no surprise to me just disappointing.

Of course not as surprised and disappointed I was when that deer ran out in front of me this week.

No chance of stopping in sight.

So my disappointment moved from my show to my truck.

Something always comes along to make it better.

I’m glad I wasn’t driving my new used X* terra.

And although I was ready to let my truck go it’s sad to see it go this way.

I’m still driving it until I get some brush bars for the front of my other car.

I know.

Paranoid.

Nope smart.

I don’t drive enough to win all the time.

Just trying to make it to the end

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I’m just trying to finish a couple of paintings for an up coming show.

I have the frames picked out and dates set for framing.

This week will be the hardest part in order to meet the deadline.

I need to schedule in some drying time for these paintings,

they will not frame any paintings that are wet.

Silly…I’ve hung paintings in galleries…still wet.

I believe I finished one of the painting on Sunday.

Monday went okay a lot of busy work and strategizing.

Tuesday added the ropes along the rails.

Wednesday worked on the water…intense study.

Thursday have my doubts about the painting.

Friday TGIF off early plan to paint.

Saturday last day to work on painting in theory.

Sun-Mon-drying time.

tuesday drop off to be framed.

friday pick up.

saturday drop off at Art Museum to be judged.

Wait… 

 

 

 

I engage in this quiet debate in my head.

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Sometimes I want to come up with some stupid generalization

as to why my painting is not done yet.

I desperately want it to be done

but at the same time I know I need to too push it a little further.

Add a little more detail.

Sometimes ambiguitiy works sometimes it not enough.

I always dwell in the possibility that I know where I’m headed

but occasionally I have to ask for directions

A direction I may not like.

Until I experience that moment of truth I venture on.

I engage in this quiet debate in my head.

Sometimes I hope for the accidental

as my intuitive manner of painting continues.

My acual interpretation of life into art

lies on a thin line of boring right now something is lacking.

It’s kinda mind numbing.

My art needs to challenge and reaffirm my ideas.

I guess my work is always a revolution of self.

I understand that now.

It’s that unequivocal commitment to the painting surface.

As an artist I take this paint and try to create some order.

Then and only then will I be done

Summer blues

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I got up early this morning feeling refreshed.

I sat outside with my coffee.

It was cool and still with a hint of fall in the air.

A faint dripping noise was in the background.

It’s damp but not wet.

I thank God for the moment and wonder what the day will bring.

Being that it is the last day of this long weekend.

The dripping persists almost like a woodpecker. The birds join in.

There’s a haze in the distance but the grass is very green and the woodchips orange.

A hummingbird buzzes a little too close.

The sun is trying to come out adding some color to the trees and then subsides.

A quiet wind has picked up and the clouds are rolling by.

The birds are surprisingly quiet again but that dripping never stops.

I get these visual revelations in my head sometimes.

As to how I should finish a painting that I’ve been struggling with or avoiding.

It’s a painting that has been sitting for quite awhile.

None of the ones I’ve been working on or even thinking about.

I found it and pulled it out of the garage.

It had some striking moments which I am pleased with but it’s in a medium I no longer work with.

But if there’s and end in sight this is a painting for me.