I am not the building's information booth.

The art I've been doing lately in one pic.

I did not think that I'd get much art done today as I have been feeling very 'ify' lately...if I can continue to produce interesting art, if I'm happy to be here, if I exist... But look what I did! Last week, I painted cheesy horse paintings like a 12 year old while I was at home just fiddling around. I was heartened to see that I was able to handle the paint and the values such that I produced a modeled figure, though.

The last two days, came into the studio/gallery and tried to paint a large painting of a horse and got so bogged down in proportions that I grew frustrated again. Today, I turned that icky painting around and found an icky drawing. I was just in the mood to fool around with that and so produced the thing you see on the easel. I'm not thrilled with it but don't hate it either. Its just another step down the path shrouded in mystery toward the goal that's obscured by mysterious shrouds.

FINALLY I took the cradled boards that I got from Dakota Art and immediately felt intimidated by their more serious nature than the paper that I have been working on recently. I have no problem pushing flimsy paper around. What the hell, I put some marks on the boards and found that they weren't at all slick as I had thought they'd be. I feel like the more solid feel of the boards encouraged my confident handling of the shapes. I will put a photo of one of them up in my next blog. I want their insouciance all to myself for a while.

I stopped into Allied Arts of Whatcom County to check out their 2001 Juried Artist Series and saw Yvette Neumann's ( www.particularsstudio.com ) and Enid Wilson's ( www.enidwilsonstudio.com ) paintings. I was very inspired by their beautiful treatment of shapes and colors. It's very exciting to have such artist's of high caliber living and working in this area.