time log 4: 5 hours

busy week
paper
printing negatives
writing resume
not drawing
work
studio
finally drawing
blah blah blah

My first attempt at exhibiting my work!

Maybe it isn't much, but this past Friday, I decided that I would enter two of my paintings into the Belton juried show. Kim and I took them over today, and now I am waiting on a little red card in my mailbox indicating whether they were accepted or not. Maybe they will be rejected, who knows, but I'm just happy that I finally made an effort.


















Downward Spiral
Mixed media on wood
46" x 36"
























A Juxtaposition of Hope and Fear
Oil on canvas
26" x 40"


My assignment this week was to pick an idea from Sketchbook with Voices, a compilation of art insights and exercises by various artists. I thought that Dennis Oppenheim was especially quirky and clever. Here are some of his pieces I looked at online.

Oppenheim wrote... An artist works through exposed wounds... something that is so true.

As my assignment, I picked the idea "paint faster than you think." This proved to be a liberating and freeing experience, an exercise more about the process than the end result. I took about 10 minutes for each piece, painting so fast that my mind could not dictate what my next move would be. This was really hard because I had to rely on my first impulse rather than what I "wanted" to do mentally. So I gooped up paint onto my brush and went at it. For the first one, I used a bristle brush, and for the second one, a palette knife.

Bristle brush

Palette knife

Detail 1

Detail 2

• 2.5 hours reading through Sketchbook with Voices, journaling favorite ideas, and looking up artists on the internet
• 2 hours brainstorming assignments and completing the "paint faster than you think" assignment
• a half hour taking pictures and posting on my blog