OCTOBER STUDIO UPDATE
A MILLION MILES A MINUTE
October 26, 2006 - My mind has been racing the past month or so. I've got a full log of shows lined up for next year - see my upcoming shows here - with a few more ideas that I may try to squeeze in
too. In addition to stretching my legs again on a series of canvases in my studio, I've been actively plotting and fretting over the upcoming EAST event and the Blue Genie Art Bazaar.
With two big chances to show off my work some while making a little bit of money doing it, the unrelenting pressure of making it as an artist always seems to heighten a bit more. Throw in the holidays - Halloween, the Day Before Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, and 2006 is over already.
It seems like my brain shifted into overdrive as soon as the calendar turned to October - I've started planning out two big group shows for next year, one of which will be made into a documentary film, the other should be as outlandish as the Unicorn Show. In addition to that, I'm planning on having three, perhaps even four solo shows - two exclusively featuring new paintings from my studio, the third a drawing show and the fourth will be a send-up of Austin's Art In Public Places program,
which has festered in bad taste and political correctness all the while subjugating art for the whims of neighborhood groups and citizens with misguided tastes and ideas.
On a day to day basis, I've been teaching a slew of classes, they've been refreshing and kept me moving along, reinforcing old lessons learned while remembering other examples I often forget. My studio is cluttered with half finished canvases - all of them wet. It seems these days nothing can hold my attention for longer than 23 minutes - and then its up to my computer to photoshop some layouts for a series of shotglasses I'm putting together, work on my website, or research some more ideas. |
The screen for my first shot glass
The first mini-shrinks I made.
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