I haven’t played with my lino press yet. I don’t feel like I am moving forward at all sometimes. I have been working on a couple of paintings, one is going quite well but the other that I was more excited about is not. I have put it on the wall downstairs to get it out of the studio and figure out where to take it.
The pre trail exhibition in February it is getting so close now and I haven’t decided what to put in yet. It will probably be prints or maybe a small painting, I just keep thinking I’ll do something better in the mean time but I am not sure I can now. Christmas holidays are starting and I am trying not to have any expectations about what I might get done. I think if I can sort out some framing for the prints I will be doing ok.
More weeks pass by always busy always in a rush planning birthday parties, holidays, Xmas and so on. But the snail creeps on if I can keep it going now when I have so much else to attend to things have got to look good for the future!
We had a meeting last Wednesday for the Artist Trail; nothing new was on the table just a round up of where we are up to and a firming up of dates and who is doing what. I wondered if I was out of my depth, most of the others are “real artists” and I wonder if I could work at my art full time I would feel “real”. Technically I work 32hrs a week as an artist; it says so in my contract (computer games). Oh enough it is what it is. I am a real full time me, mother and artist. I just hope that come May when I open up for the public that the people who come will at least find what I do interesting.
At work today but I got a new lino press yesterday cant wait to play with it. I feel a new flurry of prints coming on especially as I very smugly have most of my Xmas shopping sorted. And those I haven’t, well they can have a print.
Well I haven’t anything mounted up and I missed getting some prints into the arts centre fund raising sale. I hate saying I will do something then not managing it. I have come to the conclusion that I must be very careful about what I commit to.
On a brighter note I missed the sale because I was in Snowdonia for the weekend on a yoga retreat. I took my watercolours and painted when I had the chance. Something I haven’t done for ages, not sure if I will do anything with the sketches but it was so nice just to sit and do something direct. I am carrying on with planned work but I feel something in me wants to burst out, into what I don’t yet know.
Another busy week, but I have managed to start a second painting that is not snails! And a small lino cut which is not a snail…..am I cured. I think they will be back; well I have something lined up with shells at least. My other half said it was still snails but I know there were no snails in the shells when I took the pictures!
The next artist trail meeting is next month. I am looking forward to seeing where we are all up to. I must get some stuff framed and mounted; I seem to keep putting this off.
Been so busy with one thing and another, I have managed to finish some paintings or a least I think they are finished. I have been getting some stuff together for Emma, images of work for promotion of the trail. I have been trying to revamp my web site, which is the best I can do with the time and space available. I just hope it holds up next to some of the more professional looking sites I have been looking at.
I have also been out looking at some more local art. The East Cheshire art show is on at the moment, in which some of the Bollington Trail Artists are participating. The show at Macclesfield Town Hall is packed with work some of which I liked very much and when I went last weekend it was very busy indeed. I hope they are selling lots for the East Cheshire Hospice, which it is in aid of. I managed to get to the Tatton Park Biennial before it closed as well, this was fantastic we took the kids, it was such a beautiful day. The absolute high light for me was sitting in escape vehicle # 4 and being served a cup of tea by its guardian..fab.
On the snail front I think I might be snailed out for the moment. I am going to do some other paintings that I have been wanting to get on with for a while. I don’t think they will quite leave the scene though.
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