Not very much has happened this week as far as my painting goes…well none, but I am not too frustrated because I expected it. The snails have been busy though they have now completely eaten the lupines I got for mothers day and are tucking in to the new summer bedding plants I bought.
I have been trying to organise the next lot of work, I like to get every thing sorted out so when I do get time to sit and paint I can just get straight on. The result of this is I have about three or four works waiting to be started, and sometimes I change my mined before I get going…I might just jump into them all at once next week….gulp.
I must get some more lino cuts on the go I have been working up some sketch book images (not snails!) and the “bit lost” photo that I think could make a good print. The lino cuts are useful as I have said before because once sorted I can sit and whittle in front of the telly with a glass of wine. I don’t know if my art has to slot in around my life or my life around my art, but its one or the other!
A bit lost…..I lost some time due to illness and now feel I am not making progress, bit of a crisis of confidence, and an oh what’s the point of it all. Ever feel like you are just trying to keep too many balls in the air. I will push on though. I sat down to a painting I had on the go yesterday and although I felt unsure of the image I just enjoyed the paint. I think that is enough to keep me going.
Its half term next week and I may not get my painting time, but hopefully I will become bit more positive.
The visual arts group for the festival have asked for small works for a fund raising art sale in October. I think I will give them some of my lino block prints…I just wonder if anyone would want to buy them!(is my lack of confidence showing….)
Well I have finally bought myself a scanner. I wanted one largely to get the images in my sketch book digital. So I can use photoshop to help me develop the sketches in there for prints and possibly paintings. This also means I can share some of my snail thoughts in this blog. There is as I have said before at least one snail on each page, one of which I then tag with my current thought/feeling and the date.
I have spent the last week largely sorting out for the next pieces of work, ordering canvases and playing with photos. I think I am going to do a large horizontal split canvas piece on the travelling snails. I keep telling myself time is short and to work small but I don’t listen ;) I like the snails being small in a big space. That’s how snail thoughts should be.
Well the postponed meeting that should have been on the 6th of May was eventually cancelled the rescheduled date clashed with another festival meeting. Emma rang around every one instead, confirming if we were doing one or two weekends over the festival and which ones. Also making sure we get our house/studio photos over to Dean who is illustrating a map for the trail with all our locations, pics of house, and later a small image of our work. That seems to be about it for now we will have our next meeting in September when things should hot up a bit.
That means that until then this blog will concentrate solely on the development of my work, and as that is largely why I am doing the trail, and this blog for that matter, it seems apt.
So what’s new on the snail front…..well it’s still going at a snails pace but the ideas aren’t drying up, just my time.I have taken some fab new snail photos over the last two weeks the best ones just the other night with some good trails. I haven't had time to sort them out yet and see how or what to do with them.
