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.