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 Thinking Things Through, tagged anne truitt, doubt, poetry project, searching for a way forward on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have embarked on a new project, and uncharacteristically, it is a kind of collaboration. While we were on our blissful rafting trip down the John Day river a month ago, our friend Jesse Lichtenstein, a writer and poet, asked if I would be interested in collaborating, sharing his poems and my paintings and seeing [...]
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 Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged doubt, failure, fear on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to write about an inevitable part of artistic life without sounding like a self-obsessed whiner. But the truth is I’ve not been posting much lately because I’ve been in a bit of a hole. I wrote in an earlier post something about the act of painting being like skating out over a chasm [...]
