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.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Thoughts on Six Weeks Completed

What a relief, six weeks of daily painting completed.  It is a great feeling to set a goal and then achieve it.  I am going to enjoy that feeling for a moment.  Ahhh.

Daily painting has been an amazingly positive experience.  It has been an exercise in discipline; it forced me to make making art a priority in my routine.  It developed my thinking as a painter; now I see things differently, like in brushstrokes or shades of light and dark.  Also, I learned how to paint without the freedom to make and leave a big mess,  to share the creative process with people who felt like picking up a paintbrush with me and to tackle subject matter which I had avoided out of fear of failure.

Now I can look forward to painting without the artificial constraints I placed on myself through this project but with all that I gained from my summer of daily painting.
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  1. MadgeAugust 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM

    I'm very excited for you. I am learning from your process, too, and I appreciate your words.

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