Unlike many artists I look at my art as work. This is not because I sell it, although sell I must otherwise I can't buy paint, frames, studio space, etc. Alas, I can't live off my work. And so from time to time I am tired or don't want to do it. A friend/colleague who somehow got me started on my road to art commented on whether or not she would like it if she looked at it as a job.
When I wrote papers in graduate school and later as a doctoral candidate, I learned from my writing. And I liked the process of the writing. I loved the research, and I liked the writing. That is, I liked it when I picked the topics, and when I grew while doing them.
One of my graduate school friends asked what inspired me to do the painting below.
City Arches which also can be seen below was started with a feeling of painting something about Washington Square. I am so homesick for NYC and my friends there. But then I had also been thinking of how I wanted to go to Italy and see the sights and art I had seen in my twenties. So I kept painting doorways and arches. Then I painted spires. And houses and trees. But I needed something to unify it.
The book I read which tells me that abstract art is all around you says that what we paint as an abstract hardly ever ends up the way we started. This is true with writing also. You learn as you develop your thoughts.
So the left hand side of my painting was done three or four times. And the color at the bottom a blue grey, an artist league colleague tells me doesn't go in the painting at all. But if you look closely. It is horizontal at the bottom but you can follow the color in verticals going up. It is a path for the eye to see. Or at least this is what I intended.
I hope to keep doing city scapes for a while. I'm wintered and watered out.
2 comments:
oh wow. this is freaking awesome.
This is amazing. Terrific! You are on your way to become an artist.
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