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| Russes Blog http://dailyyak.blogspot.com/ |
January 11, 2006 My goal for the visual blog is to keep my MASS audience up to date on my work as well as let them see my work progress. The blog is a work in progress and I’m working on keeping it organized, informative, and hopefully interesting. There will be multiple works progressing at one time. With any luck I can keep both of them updated. |
Thursday June 9, 2005 "One show down one to go." I have completed my first art festival and have one more to go. Not much to show for it, except some good leads. I would have really liked to have sold something to recoup some of my expenses. It’s not that I’m disappointed with the way things are going and I still have another festival, and I entered a more predominate festival in Bethesda for October. I’m just starting to see the nature of the beast in this whole art market and I find myself energized to take it on. I’m just so damn impatient and lack the funds to go the full throttle. It is not just the funds holding me back the kids still require so much time and I would really like my work to be less eclectic. I can see it homing between my still life work and figurative “narratives”. I was told early on and believed I wasn’t good enough to do the one thing I did well and loved to do. Then came to believe not only could I but was called to such work. I then received my greatest gifts in my life, my kids. Now at 36 years old I can see the door opening for my art to get out and all I want to do is go through at 100mph. |
January 9, 2006 It has been a while since I worked on my web site or my art for that matter. It seems with kids it’s really hard to work on my art over the holidays. Then I get rejuvenated during the New Year. My goal for my blog is to change the format to a Visual blog. Ill have updating pics of whatever work I’m doing at that time. |
Wednesday June 22, 2005 I did not sell any work at the Rockville art show. It hurt when my work didn’t sell, but also fueled me to work harder. I really could see my work was good, but not in the right place for me. I gained this great sense of confidence in my work that weekend. There was no feeling that my worked sucked, but rather I need to find the market for my work. Finding my market will be no small task. I really want to give it my all, but I'm constraint by everything else around me. Sometimes these things around me can be just excuses for not getting work done. The real joy now is the desire to get work done not only with my art, but with the marketing end of my business, which in fact is also fueling the need to paint. They only down side is the realization is my art/work is really only product when it comes to marketing. I must treat it as such if it is to get out there. Any intrinsic value I may have for it will never translate beyond me if it is not seen. The significance of the work will also change with each new viewer based on their perspective. From there the work will truly begin to have life which is a good feeling. Strange that for my work to live it must first be product. I believe Rembrandt new that all too well. I want to add some photos to my blog, and paypal to my web page so my vast number of patrons can purchase my work. I’m also considering adding a work in progress panel. Basically pics of the work I am working on now. The line between dream and reality is a fine one, bounded only by fear, and released through faith and work. |
Wednesday June 1, 2005 "I still draw on the floor" Today I started my blog. Thanks to Russ for the idea, go visit his blog. I thought I would start with my blogs name. “I still draw on the floor.” When I was 10 years old I switched school to St Patrick's, a school much further away then the local public school. I was left back that year. Afraid the kids at my new school would figure out my age and the local kids would learn I was left back. I never felt more alone and dumb. When I came home from school I would watch “TV” all day and instead of doing homework I would draw. I drew on the floor in my room. I would listen albums like Billy Joel 52nd street, Raiders of the lost Ark soundtrack, & Kenny Rogers The Gambler. I would sit in my room for hours on end drawing animals, mostly tigers, and Star Wars Characters, . It was what I did on the weekends until one in the mourning at times. The funny thing is I never really grew out of drawing on the floor. To this day when I draw it is usually sitting on the floor. It is a place I would go to find myself. It was there I was real, I was good at something better then most. It was there I found God gave me a purpose. I stop drawing when I got midway through high school, because it was not "sensible". I needed to do something that would make money. It wasn’ t till I was 26 when I picked up a pencil again and began to felt whole again. |
Soul Messenger:January 11,2006
The original idea for this painting was to be
illustrations for a story I have floating in my head.
The idea is to never write the story in a finished
form. The story is to be a continually evolving idea
with the purpose being a source for work. The
interesting part is the meaning and narrative in
each work would change not only within the work
but also within the progression of each work.
Soul Messenger is a study for the characters.
Underpainting
Prep Drawing
1st sitting
Soul Messenger? :January 17, 2006
I forget how difficult color can be when I have not kept on
top it. I’m primarily working of a three color palette or
purple yellow and blue. I need to ease up on the amount of
pure hue and inject a little more brown and gray. The more
this work develops the less I like it; it’s just not good
enough. I will follow through and attempt to have it done by
this weekend but I doubt it will see the light of day.
Im thinking of changing the name to Praying Messenger. It
seems more engaging if it can come across that he is holding
an egg and an egg is a symbol of a soul. I think for my
figurative work to be successful it needs to be more
emotionally engaging. The more I can express emotion in my
work through the figure the more likely people are going to
be inspired by it.
| Soul Messanger Work in Progress |
| Soul bearer |
January 23, 2006: Soul bearer is a
new idea for a painting. It is in the
same theme of Soul Messenger. I think
I am going to focus my work on this
angel theme. I plan to continue Soul
Messenger but I think Ill wait till this is
ready to paint and paint them together.
new idea for a painting. It is in the
same theme of Soul Messenger. I think
I am going to focus my work on this
angel theme. I plan to continue Soul
Messenger but I think Ill wait till this is
ready to paint and paint them together.