A Year of Making Art: Day 5
4/24/07 Day 5
Daughter Blixy came over at 7 a.m. to use our shower before she goes to work. The power was out at her house. Just seeing her for a few minutes brightened my day.
But then it was back to the usual. Procrastinated making art by reading email, making phone calls to fix our telephone voice-mail, making doctor's appointments, etc. I also called my oldest brother, Bill, who turned 77 today. We discussed the fact that so many kids in our family are talented in math and music. Bill suggested they got it from our Czech heritage.
I finally got around to drawing, which was fairly painless once I got started. It's making that first mark that's hard. After that, I react to what's there.
After a little more work, I signed my second canvas, but I don't expect anyone will want to buy a painting in these colors.
Emergence, 44" x 44"
It's been a while since I painted something that really made me feel, "wow," as in "where did this come from?" Instead, I seem to be solving the problems of each canvas without any real excitement. This could all be due to my general depression. Or not.
I did some work on backgrounds today also. I've been trying to get away from my usual pre-painting steps, but these efforts haven't led me anywhere useful. It is so tedious to cover a whole canvas, especially a large one. I just want to get through that step and move on.
I should probably be working on smaller canvasses when I'm in this kind of mood, but I don't have any made. Stretchers are on order.
(Note: There is a gap between the dates I'm writing and posting because I had to give myself time to get ahead in case we travel and I'm not able to post.)
