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untitled (beth)
10" x 8"
graphite on paper
2010
Showing posts with label the Black Dahlia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Black Dahlia. Show all posts
Aug 26, 2010
Sep 23, 2008
back home and licking stamps...
Southern California was blue and bright this trip and i would've loved a few extra days of sun and Mexican food but i'm back home and ready to dive back in to painting.
tomorrow, i'll be mailing out the art trade (thank you so much to the people who participated!). it's so much fun to trade work and is such a great way to be supportive of another artist's practice. it's just so important to be encouraging and appreciative of the work other people do. it can make such a wonderful difference sometimes. making sure to go to openings, leaving comments on blogs, giving feedback when asked, and making a point to let an artist know that you've had a reaction to what they do is such a big help and, more often than not, just what the artist needed right that very moment. i'd like to do another art trade soon... maybe a bit closer to the holidays.
i also got the new postcards i ordered. based on the overwhelmingly positive response to 'dahlia 1', she is the image on the front of the postcard.
i'll be mailing out a bunch tomorrow as well but if anyone out there would like one, send me an email and i'll add you to my mailing list. it'd be my pleasure. :)
ever since i built a website for the work, i've been much more focused and pleased with the work as a whole. finally sitting down and re-writing my artist statement awakened a wonderful and relieving bit of clarity. putting together work that falls within the parameters of my statement is very satisfying and i feel like i'm exploring my ideas in a much deeper and concentrated way. it's more personal, more powerful... not necessarily more accessible than my previous work, but i'm very proud of the route the work has taken and i feel very attached to it. even the poems i've been writing as an extension of my visual practice have been reigned in and make a lot more sense than they did a few months ago. maybe i'll post a few of them here once i get further along with them. i'll work on getting my courage up to do that.
tomorrow, i'll be mailing out the art trade (thank you so much to the people who participated!). it's so much fun to trade work and is such a great way to be supportive of another artist's practice. it's just so important to be encouraging and appreciative of the work other people do. it can make such a wonderful difference sometimes. making sure to go to openings, leaving comments on blogs, giving feedback when asked, and making a point to let an artist know that you've had a reaction to what they do is such a big help and, more often than not, just what the artist needed right that very moment. i'd like to do another art trade soon... maybe a bit closer to the holidays.
i also got the new postcards i ordered. based on the overwhelmingly positive response to 'dahlia 1', she is the image on the front of the postcard.
i'll be mailing out a bunch tomorrow as well but if anyone out there would like one, send me an email and i'll add you to my mailing list. it'd be my pleasure. :)
ever since i built a website for the work, i've been much more focused and pleased with the work as a whole. finally sitting down and re-writing my artist statement awakened a wonderful and relieving bit of clarity. putting together work that falls within the parameters of my statement is very satisfying and i feel like i'm exploring my ideas in a much deeper and concentrated way. it's more personal, more powerful... not necessarily more accessible than my previous work, but i'm very proud of the route the work has taken and i feel very attached to it. even the poems i've been writing as an extension of my visual practice have been reigned in and make a lot more sense than they did a few months ago. maybe i'll post a few of them here once i get further along with them. i'll work on getting my courage up to do that.
Aug 3, 2008
some new stuff i've been working on...
siblings. shadows.
40" x 30"
oil on canvas
2008
dahlia 1
11" x 14"
oil on canvas
2008
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