When I originally started this blog, I taught academic writing at New York University and I had begun studying watercolor. At that time, I noticed certain similarities between international students learning to write and someone like myself, who wasn't really an artist, learning to paint. There was terminology, styles, expectations, a history of approach and composition and so on.
These still exist and now I tutor academic writing.
However, my life is filled with different things than just writing that I would like to think about, online, through this blog.
At one time, I thought of blogging as a marketing tool. And I used it as such. It did well. But this is not my interest anymore, or at least not for now. I think I now feel that art is overly blogged and overly sold through blogs. Art blogs have become, at least for me, too cute, without enough substance about what the artist may have thought, or be seeing. There are many blogs that demonstrate the artist painting but few that seem to really discuss art!
Much of my work is non representational and I hope to lean more and more into abstract art, what ever abstract art really is.
I hope you will explore my thoughts and my art with me in this new blog.
My blog is like the painting below "Town Lines".
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2 comments:
It has been interesting to go through your blog for a number of reasons:
1. I am an artist in Western NC
2. My military son has a home in Pinehurst, NC (now stationed in Southern Va.
3. I used to teach in NJ (retired in 2000
4. I noticed the same thing about art and my former field - computer programming.
5. Your art is loose and expressive; it reads like a story.
Hat’s off. Well done, as we know that “hard work always pays off”, after a long struggle with sincere effort it’s done.
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