Week4 Day3

Week4 Day2

Week4 Day1

Three Weeks Complete - Half way there

Matt's watercolor

Michael's pastel

By working as an artist I feel more like an artist.  Daily painting is immersion; I think about art and painting everyday, I look at things with more of an artist's eye and then I work.   I met two artists this week who both happen to live one block over; Jim is an abstract painter from Brooklyn who spends the summer here painting in a shed studio in his back yard.  His children are younger but still old enough that he can spend hours at a time painting compared to the 20 minutes here and there he could squeeze in when they needed him more.  Barb paints still life in oil but paints less in NJ and more while wintering in FL.  She actually goes to the Pine Shores Art Association for open studio and classes, something I have considered but haven't done yet.  Take a look at http://pineshoresartassociation.org.  We may paint together before the summer ends.  I also made art with Michael and Matt around the dining room table last night.  It was a lovely, calm way to be together creating and passing the time.  Matt works in collage so picking up a paintbrush was a pleasant diversion.  Maybe you will see bits of his painting in his next collage.

Week3 Day7

Week3 Day6

I was out riding my bike around 8:30 pm along Beach Avenue.  When I happened to look west I saw the most glorious sunset.  I immediately headed for the bay to see, but had to pedal to get an unobstructed view.  As it got darker I turned back east just in time to see the moon rise out of a cloud bank over the ocean.  This is what you get on an island.

Week3 Day5

Week3 Day4

Week3 Day3

Week3 Day2

Week3 Day1

Thoughts after two weeks

This week has been very emotional as I battle with dissatisfaction and even embarrassment.  Painting has become an essential part of my day and I am staying faithful to posting but the limitations of daily painting are getting to me.  At home in my studio, I will paint something then look at it for days in order to problem solve and find a way to finish.  Here I do not have that luxury.  So I finish before I am really finished just to meet my goal.  This may not be the same way I would finish if I took an entire week or longer to complete a work.  But finish I must.

Thank you to those keeping up with my posts and those who have commented.  I really appreciate your encouragement.

Week2 Day7

                                                                  ... and once again.

Week2 Day6

Tried it again.

Week2 Day5

Week 2 Day 4

Day3

Day2

WeekTwo/Day1

Thoughts after one week

This project is harder than I thought but not the painting part.  Except for the constant mess, it has been fun to work everyday.   The problem is that this project is both less and more than I expected.  Less because I am restricting myself to smaller work in order to get a finished product to post.  Small feels a bit limiting. More because I am coming up against my insecurities having to post what I did each day.  I have found myself wrangling for an out if I don't like my results.  What if I paint 2 of the same thing and post the better.  What if I keep several works in progress to post as needed if I don't like my daily?  Is this cheating?  I set the goal without making rules and now I wonder what are the rules.  Do I need rules?

After one week I have 7 posts as per goal.  I also have 2 works in progress, a gift and several trading cards which I am stockpiling for a September event.  I am painting more than ever and I am still looking forward to it each day.  If my goal is to produce, I am producing.  But after such a cavalier start, I am thinking of rethinking my goal.

Day7

Day6

Day5

Day4

Day3

This is similar to yesterday's painting but larger in size.

Week one/day two

Week one/day one