Well, damn.

I just went down to the basement to dig out all of my old oil paints and mediums. I don’t have any Qunacridone Magenta or Phthalo Blue, but I’ve definitely got enough to make a new start with oils. Excellent.
Gesso, however–that’s another story.
Given enough time, acrylic gesso will go bad once the can is opened. Really bad. The [...]

Creating–and excavating.

Once again I’m stuck waiting for paint to dry, so I might as well blog.
I went a little crazy with collage in my journal last night. After sketching in a quick self-portrait from memory, I began gluing in a background of various-sized circles in bright colors. Then I did a bit of simple stamping. And [...]

Should-ing all over myself.

I confess I didn’t paint anything on the 6th, but for the last two days I’ve been back at it and today I’m working on a couple more things. I thought I might as well update while waiting for paint to dry.
Last night, while gluing bits of colored paper into my journal, I decided that [...]

Kick-starting myself

So now that I’ve managed to get past my favorite procrastinatory tactic (endlessly getting ready to paint without actually doing any painting), I’ve painted something every day for the last four days.
Four days isn’t much, I admit. If I’m still painting every day four months from now I’ll have done something a bit more brag-worthy (and maybe [...]

Getting started…or not.

Way back in art school, my biggest creative hurdle was figuring out what to paint. I was 18, then 19 years old, a kid from the suburbs who had never had to do much thinking about life, or why the world worked the way it did. When it came to pure technical skill I was precocious, but despite all my bad [...]