Shaking My Confidence Daily

The beginning of something I call Cecilia CLICK HERE. A sketch originally started on our February road trip to Southern Cal. A canvas acrylic started in April. The goal....to get the Cecilia onto the canvas with the vision I have in my head. To be detached from the results is the mental block keeping her from getting there as well as the necessary solitude. I am consumed with the 3rd grade mosaic project. I'm in a constant ebb and flow of creating, organizing and preparing. It's a process that has fluidity even though the minutiae comes in great magnitudes.

sketch book

In my sketch book I have many things. Clippings of art from various magazines, doodles, other peoples doodles, comps for jobs, notes on newly discovered misc art sources and products as well as spontaneous thoughts planned out ready to be layed on canvas. Here is my initial planning for a requested painting for a dear friend.

Ain't Got No Moves

I recently read online a "call to artists" request for a local gallery. It was stated the judges were educated in all the techniques of the art medium of which they would be accepting or declining the artists work to be hung in their gallery. Is patience a technique? That's my only known move in the technique world. I'm noticing my graphic design education/career is taking forefront in my acrylic painting attempts. The description "illustration on canvas" comes to mind rather than the word painting. None the less I am plugging along with a new "IOC" with a girlie, whimsical feel with the simple title of "Laundry Day". Enclosed is a cropping from that incomplete piece.