Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, Work in Progress, tagged dictionary, doubt, fruit trees, painting in progress, plein air on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I do not know who I am.
Is this what adulthood is like? You find yourself being carried along, heading somewhere, somehow, surprised how it all seems to keep happening, with or without your best or feeble efforts to make it one way or another?
I am painting the plum tree in our friend Tom’s amazing garden [...]
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Lead Balloon", dictionary, doubt, finishing on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been bearing down hard on this painting, trying to finish it. Which can result in a certain amount of progress, but usually backfires after a while by making me feel completely burnt out. I sit and stare at the painting, sit and stare, and cannot think of what to do to it. It’s utterly [...]
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Lead Balloon", dictionary on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I’ve been enjoying paging through the dictionary, reading words at random, and I’ve started writing down the words that catch my attention for some reason. I have a particular predilection for words of latinate origin—which is no surprise, given all the years I studied Latin, although I couldn’t translate anything now if my life [...]
