it's been a while

I've neglected this blog the past year but while I'm working on my new website I'll try to keep this up to date. I've made a lot of paintings that I don't like, but here are some that I do.

...and this too

an idea of what I've been doing...although I don't really know what I've been doing

These are the oil paintings I've made since I started renting my studio in mid August. There are also a number of drawings but I'll have to photograph them later. These photos are horrible, but I just wanted to put something up for now. I'm not satisfied with these paintings but I have been painting differently since graduation, so in that way these paintings are little experiments, and I am excited about that. They are almost all painted from life. They are various sizes. The still lifes are the newest, one I painted today.

I am still on the planet

I am still here! I am still painting! I have a great studio two blocks from my house with a fantastic little coffee shop on the corner! So things have been good but I haven't felt like sharing or showing what I'm working on. It's not that I'm plotting a grand masterpiece, I'm just relishing the freedom of not having to be critiqued constantly. I realized that although I had some of the best times of my life at school it also took a little of the fun out of art. It's just hard for something to stay care free and fun when you have assignments, deadlines, and grades to worry about.

So I don't want to show what I'm working on, on account of the slim chance that someone will give me they're opinion. World! I love you but I just don't care what you think! At least not now.

That's it for now folks, I'm going to go hide in my studio for a while.