


It's been a productive day today in the studio. I
started by doing some tweaks to American Beauty #1, I decided I needed to make
some adjustments to her mouth and slim her face a wee bit (I think I'd rendered
it a little too wide at the bottom). Then it was on to beauty #2 (Meg). I
sketched her out on Tuesday but didn't have a chance to scan it in (actually I
don't know how to scan - sad I know) so here she is here, first as a sketch and
then a painting in progress... since studio days are Tuesdays and Thursdays I
should have her finished next Tuesday, or Thursday if I get distracted by
another project like One in Eight (still working on that one although I lost my
exhibition space for it... a colleague advised me to seek out the Boulder
Contemporary Art Museum so I have that on my 'to do' list for the next coming
month. Anyway... I always forget how much I love painting portraits until I sit
down and do one, then I'm in heaven. I've decided to table the cupcake series
(also known as the Huge Tracks of Land series and the 99 names for boobs
series)... I just wasn't feeling it and was totally not satisfied with the
paintings that I had produced thus far (although both are currently in exhibits
in Denver). I'm thinking paint isn't the medium for that concept nor is the
cupcake the vehicle to convey the idea so I'm going to give it a rest until
something comes to me ... I have a few ideas but want to work on the American
Beauties for a while (and 1 in 8), in between I will noodle with other ideas as
well as start a collaborative project with my friend Lisa... instead of writing
letters or emails (it is the 21st century after all) we talked about sending a
sketchbook back and forth to each other. I love the idea and have the
sketchbook... I just need to get my sketch finished so I can send it off to her
(Lisa if you are reading this I'm excited to see what you think about the
sketchbook - I didn't make it but now I want to learn how to make the paper
that is in it! It will be coming your way soon!)
So that's it for now... It’s off to walk Molly and then back to the
studio for some sketching and computer work (yeah to the sketching boo to the
computer work! Actually the computer work isn't bad, I need to create an excel
spread sheet so I can keep track of my American Beauties!)