Daily Painting

Daily painting is an exercise in motivation and perseverance. These may not be the first qualities one looks for in a summer project. Summer is for taking off. Summer is for lazing around. What if one just doesn't feel like painting? Well, I plan to find out by painting nearly everyday during my summer on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. It will be just me holding myself to this goal by posting each day. I hope by painting everyday to hone my skills and to see what develops in style and technique. By the time I leave for Denver in August I will have 42 paintings; most decent, some disasters and a few really good ones. That is my goal.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Four Weeks Complete

I am amazed at my productivity.  Stacked up next to my dresser are 28 paintings.  That is quite a pile.  Working in acrylic has been interesting.  It dries so much faster, I had to get into it.  (There isn't much room here to have oils sitting around taking a week or more to dry.)  But the acrylic paint doesn't always do what I want it to do.  The ocean comes out much better when I am working in oil.  Speaking of ocean; I had been afraid of painting ocean. Last summer, I made many unsuccessful attempts.  This daily work has gotten me past this fear to some fairly satisfying results.  

Truly, some days it feel like a chore, but overall, the exersize of daily painting is advancing my work.
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  1. Alma SanbernAugust 6, 2010 at 7:04 PM

    I agree about acrylics. There is a new type that stays wet longer, called open acrylics. I think that is worth trying a few tubes at least.

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