DATE: 04/29/2008 21:42:36 / MOOD: don't know

I was asked recently what do my paintings mean? Where do they "come" from. It reminded me of a remark made by a friend many years ago.  He was looking at my paintings.  He said he was attracted to my work because I am an "internal painter" and the paintings spoke to him.  He explained it like this:  Some artists paint their external world.  Depicting the world around them and creating it as they see it.  It's beautiful, its darkness, it's light.  Some artists he says, delve into their internal world and paint it, create it and put it out for the world to see.  They paint their emotions, feelings, thoughts, fears and so forth.  I think you paint what you are attracted to, what you as an artist identify with.  I respect and admire those artists that paint the world around them, because I never could.  All my works reverted back to depicting what I was feeling inside.  Perhaps it's how I show emotion?  Perhaps it's how I get those feelings out that live inside me and are hard for me to express in words. Either way art is what drives us, the act of creation is what gives us a reason to get up in the morning and keep going.  So internal or external, embrace what you do and celebrate it.

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DATE: 04/26/2008 20:29:46 / MOOD: full of life

Today I finally decided to join ArtScuttleButt.  I learned about it quite a while back in ArtCalendar.  I thought to myself, what am I waiting for?  I guess I have felt disconnected from the art world for a while now.  I have not been in a show in a long time.  I have been coming up with a number of excuses but I know it comes down to fear.  I threw myself deeply into my new series and have been struggling with it's merit.  I have been scared to show them to anyone, scared of what other people think.  I don't know why.  But here I am reaching out, and trying to connect with other artists.  So fellow artists...here I am... Be gentle.

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