Where is the art?

I've noticed that my last few posts have had nothing to do with art. When you are an artist you go through super creative periods (or as my teacher Kim likes to call them "prolific") or extremely dry spells. In keeping with my general temperament it's pretty much all or nothing with me. I'm either working steadily and creating tons of stuff (some good - some bad) or my stuff is packed away and hasn't been touched in weeks. Saddly that is the case right now. I'm in my last week of school for the semester. My project on Theories of Personality is due next Friday by midnight. I have a pretty good handle on the project it is just between that and work it leaves me completely creatively depleted. I have noticed that this always in the last month of the semester so I'm not worried that I"ll never paint again - I just wish I could find a balance to be able to do all three things simultaneously and have none of them suffer.

I probably should be freaking out a little more because I have a show at the Foxboro Library in January. Which means having everything done before Christmas because that week in between Christmas and New Years is often kind of a "lost week" for me. A lot of my work is smallish now so I need to create kind of a lot to take up the space. I probably need at least 120 pieces if I continue to work within the same size. Right now I have about 30 - 35 pieces (as you can see in the watercolor rack to the left) - so it's time to get my ass in gear.

Crap just seeing those numbers in front of me realize that it's time to get a move on. I do however have some oils that I'm going to rework and hopefully I'll have time to create a few new ones. I haven't worked in oil in so long it feels like a bit of a foreign medium to me. I have one huge oil that hangs in my living room that I will bring to the show and hopefully sell, it's pretty big and will take up one whole panel. You can't tell from the photo but the piece is about 5 1/2 feet long by 4 feet high. Sorry about the glare, it's because of the copper paint.

I have two weeks off in between the semester ending on Friday August 31st and starting up again on Sunday September 16th. Instead of rushing around and trying to do a million things I should just sit back and relax - go to my art class that I have been missing and just get the creative side of my brain engaged again.

OK now I am going for a walk and then I have to pick up my mom from the airport and then get down to some personality theory.

Some of my work

Here are some of the paintings from the library show.