I have been painting and drawing and writing but not posting. Sigh! Well, now I'm back on track. Four paintings and a couple of drawings underway and a sculpture project in the making. Or perhaps it'll be more of a construction. We shall see.
Aha! So that is how I can insert pictures that I have posted on Instagram, hooray!
So there is a piece of one of the paintings I am working on. Not sure, as usual, where I am going with it. This is just the early departure, the most exciting part of the process. After that, it is all difficult decisions, staring, hesitating until something happens and then the next exciting part happens - or not. Such an adventure!
A couple of days later... well, the painting has progressed, perhaps, but not enough to change the picture so I had better finish this post before I have do have to change it.
So lately, it has been quite a struggle to get myself into the studio and once there to decide what to do, where to start. There is always the question, after a gap in production, of 'do I continue where I left off or do I start something new?' A difficult one. The ones left unfinished accumulate and some are still lying around, almost forgotten for a couple of years, others get painted over and once in a while one or two get pulled out, stared at, put back or worked on. I think it all depends on the music. If only I knew what music to play to lead to knowing what to do.
At the moment, I am trying something that I am calling 'new'. It isn't really because I have tried this before. One of my biggest problems is wanting to do several things at the same time: painting, writing, drawing and sculpture - I will leave out watching youtube videos and news reports because they usually are distractions to avoid decisions. So for the PWDS situation, I have tried doing different things at different times of the day and night. So far, that has never worked because once I launch into something, if it goes well then I just keep at it. If it does not go well, then nothing goes well and nothing gets done. Either way, I have this feeling that I should/could/would be doing 'something' and if only I could. Insanity? well, it certainly sounds like it. It has been suggested to me that I should just pick one thing, stick to that and forget the rest. That sounds like a very sensible idea. If only it worked.
So, that brings me back to my 'new' something. I who am incapable of working on a schedule, have been keeping a log of what I do when if I choose two things to do daily - I picked painting and drawing. One week of log shows that, at the moment, I tend to paint during daylight hours and draw at night. I am very surprised that this is actually happening. Am I finally growing up? Well, actually, it is working to some extent. I always have in the back of my mind that idea of 'if only I could be ....' - the dots representing whatever I am not doing. This is very distracting but I have decided to persevere until it becomes a habit, a trend, a method, a routine (crikey!) - basically something I learn to do that way. Of course, I miss the people in the book I have been writing and wonder what they are getting up to while I'm not writing and as soon as I have been to the relatively far-away art shop and bought the necessary supplies, I will have to get onto that sculpture/construction.
I wonder if anyone else out there has this daily problem and how they handle it.
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