I've decided it's done

Although I reserve the right to change my mind without notice. Now these guys just need names.

Just keep painting

Some days, you just don't feel like you can paint. You feel like you should pack up shop and become an accountant, or a banker, or something else, anything else. I've been in one of those slumps. And before you mistake this as an attempted fishing for compliments, let me just say: all artists feel this way sometimes. Even the greats, the inarguable geniuses of the group. So I'm hardly immune. I've been here before, I know one gets over it. And the answer is always the same: just keep painting.

So here are a few more interior studies. Bonus of living in a factory converted to artist spaces: interesting architecture. 

And here's what's really on the easel: my new puppets, in progress, nearly finished, just some touch ups and strings needed.

And lest you think for even one crazy moment I've abandoned him: Sebbie, my darling, also in progress.

Devil's in the details.

A few more. It's the little things that makes a home.
 

A few more studies

 I should have finished Sebbie and friends to share soon, but in the mean time, a few more little studies.

Studio light

I've been contemplating moving--a move that would require me to leave my studio I love so much. It's rather contemplating in the abstract: nothing's for sure, I may still be exactly where I am now in five years. And while I certainly won't be leaving tomorrow, thinking about the separation has caused me to look at the parts of the studio I love with new eyes. And so in the pauses of the day I have been contemplating interiors, in the form of little 8x8" studies. So here are two: one studio kitchen, and one entry. It's all about the light.

Contemplating evenings

I've been spending my evenings toying with landscapes. In the summer, with the long days, I can work on my still lives by natural light late into the evenings, but not so this time of year. To keep myself busy I've been painting landscapes in the evening, a few studies of dusk, a few studies of other painters' trees (in the case of the bottom two paintings, Marion Wachtel and Stephan Kolesnikov, respectively). Nothing special, just small pieces, a break from the day's still lives.

Away they go!

These babies are all dressed up and off to Lotton Gallery in search of new homes. Go visit them in Chicago!