Commission for two Lovely Aussie girls. I like doing more detail to the face lately but keeping a primitive feel to the rest of the painting. It's a nice contrast. The primitive folk art faces are sweet but I feel more connection to these types of paintings. Not a lot different but they are more expressive. Sweet simple faces are good too it's just a matter of what you are into at the time. Perhaps I'll get so complicated with portraits that I will long for a button nose and start painting only that. Remember, allow yourself to change. Don't listen to people, ever, who say, Ohhh, you have to be this way all of the time. Do this. Be that. It's what's expected. If you suddenly want to make gnomes out of clay when all you've done is landscapes all your life, by golly make the friggen gnomes. When you are dead, and your friends are dead, and we are all in the dirt, it will matter NOT AT ALL if you behaved accordingly just to please people. Take risks. Risk making screwed up little gnome paintings just because you are following a whim. It is not a waste of time. Even if they are quite horrible. You still learn. And there is a niche for horrible art. www.badart.com And yeah of course, something that is 'bad' aesthetically is beautiful in the eyes of god (the universe, whatever that means to you). When you are making nothing but crap tell yourself GOD LIKES MY ART. Cause she does. She has all your pictures you have ever made taped onto her refrigerator. She is very proud of you.
Have you thought about your art goals for 2010? Nina says she is going to make faces for the first time. I am concentrating on bodies. Elaborate clothes. Different kinds of hands. Bigger paintings. Unique frames. And combining the Art journal with the Scrap book and making memories that you can touch and feel.
I'm going home to Jersey next week and will be there for a few weeks. Visiting the cutest boy in the world (will get him on cam for you) and staying with my family. They have a chihuahua now, Charlie, and I want to get her to howl with Gigi (who is breaking world records with her high pitch. I'm proud of her.)
If you would like to sign up early for January-May Petit Academy classes registration is now open. More classes will be added by the end of the week.
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