Sunday, August 26, 2007

My new painting

This is my latest painting. It is still a work in progress..due very soon, however..!

Painting Revised...

I was asked to revise my painting. She wanted the painting hung upside down and a series of green added to it. Here is the before and after...

Saturday, August 25, 2007

The Stuck Point

i am frustrated. for a myriad of reasons. this painting is somehow beyond me yet, simultaneously, somehow within reach. this paradox is driving me nuts. right now nothing is working and mostly,i am not feeling it.

i started painting this afternoon. and the whole time i have been frustrated. nothing is working. the sun is blaring into my window blinding me and making me so hot i could die. the canvas is too big for my wall and i find myself negotiating with tiny spaces to reach certain areas of the painting and to even reach my paints! i realized the other night that i was actually painting the painting upside down. it feels better upside down, but it is a whole different feeling to be painting it in that direction. and while trying to move the painting the screw that was holding it fell out of the wall, the easel i borrowed from joe takes up too much space in my little studio area and basically this is all driving me nuts. if i am not feeling it i need to simply take a break from the damn thing and move on with my breathing space.

two nights ago i got the painting heavily started without stopping. i was totally feeling it, allowing myself to be lost in its possibilities and when it started to finally to form i found myself stuck. what do i do next. where do i go from here. i love it but it is not done..the flow of consciousness stopped and the thinking began. again this stuck point. what do i do with myself then. i find when i force myself to paint wile stuck i stop being in the focus of it. argh! so a great suggestion by j was to just play with the painting. move it around, sit in front of it for a while and begin to reform a relationship with it. i want to do this. and i am going to do this. my problem is the deadline for delivery of this painting is quickly approaching and with oil paints this is a tricky situation. it is due by next week to the person who asked me to paint it. ah! well i have to work tonight unfortunately but at least i have all of sunday to make a difference on this canvas. oh canvas what do you want to be! let me see you again! ah!

the cool thing is that we at the flat iron arts building have begun to have open studios all weekend long. every weekend. this is cool because a couple of random strangers wandered into the studio this afternoon and all felt a lot of love for this new painting. that was cool. (although it was not upside down at that point....ah!)

honestly, i have to remember if i am not feeling it to not force myself upon a painting. to take a step back from it and move on for a while. bringing new energy to myself can only mean bringing new life to the painting. well i guess that is what i am going to do.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Just a normal night

its funny. to cook tonight i moved 2 paintings. we have begun cooking on  my side of the studio because it runs on a different electric circuit then the rest of the house and we have learned the hard way that to not do so means blowing a fuse in this very old artists building. but the painting i had completed for commission needed to be "edited" um...and as joey began the pasta sauce just 3 meters away from my painting i realized i needed to move it and fast. so i moved it to another wall, took the painting from that wall and placed it over the the wall by the trash bin and the computer. so i am basically writing you from behind the painting of a great pair of pigeons as we have set up the cooking plate and the electric skillet right by my wall of paintings. ironically the most abstract of the paintings...the tempest, i have less concern of splatter for. i think because it would only be kind of cool to see what daily life could add to such a painting.

well,  i really need to stretch this new canvas tonight for a new commission i need to have completed in 2 weeks, including the one week it will take at least for it to dry. god help me. this one is huge 3 by 5 feet. a lot of love will be involved in this process tonight, especially as it is already 10.15 pm and we have already had a wonderful evening at nicks tavern...if you know what i mean..
giggle...
love from the world of lizzie..

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Rantings, Pantings and Paintings

I deleted that previous post because I was entirely too frustrated to write. I wrote preachy stuff. It wasn't my place to do so. I was frustrated that the most of the crowd who attended our art show cared less about art then they did for the free wine we had, etc. I say now that I truly hope for those who genuinely care about the arts to start coming to our shows too.

Nonetheless, I am still here and still devilishly inspired. I want to share with you some images. (Yes! I finally found my camera - No, don't ask where it was!)

The image below is the "don't think just paint" painting i am working on.



This additional image is a before an after image. The before image is an example of me beginning to be free and then stopping within myself. The after image is the one where I simply decided to have fun. I blasted the music and went to town with colors and textures and madness and let me tell you it felt fantastic. I am not sure if you can feel the painting from looking at it online, but I fall more in love with this painting each day. I invite you to come look at it in person...

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Les belles artes

I have just deleted my entire posting and have decided to simply share how i feel today with this song. Enjoy.