Thoughts

I had this idea that I was going to take off with my art work with ease. I guess it is a due an artist must pay in order to stick with it. Rejection is part of the game. I am beginning to see that it is all about Marketing yourself and your art. I have put that on hold lately, school seems to be consuming my time. But I must get back to it. I have plenty of subject material to create new works. I must devote at least an hour each day to my artwork, whether it is marketing and promoting or creating. I would rather just create I think most artists would but it is about the marketing as much as the creating.
I would really like to make a trip to Chicago when it is warmer to get some Chicago material. I have a friend in the art world in Chicago and I have been told that Chicagoans love my kind of work.

As I read back over this I have to question why do I create my artwork? Is it to make money? Or is it for the pure joy of making it. I would have to say that it is for the pure joy of making it and showing it to others! I get a big kick out of seeing peoples faces light up when they see my artwork. It is about creating the artwork to bring joy to others. If I get some money out of it great! But I won't quit my day job just yet! ha ha! But what a dream that would be to travel around the country doing custom images and creating new ones from the world around me! WOW!
I HAVE A DREAM......... (can't you just hear that booming voice of Martin Luther King?)

I started a painting this past week that has been stuck in my head for almost 4 years! Can you imagine? Why it has stuck with me for so long I do not know, other than it must be painted! It is exciting to see my vision coming to life. I don't work on it but a few minutes here and there, but it is at least started and in progress. I really do love to paint, there is something about getting your hands into the colors and the smells and the moving of the paint around to get an image to come to life. I am really not good at painting subject material, I am better at the feel and the movement of the colors, more of a modernist really, and it is all about self expression and feeling. So I will never be a Michaelangelo or DaVinci but I will sure be happy playing in those paints! You can tell I have had a great day if I have paint and ink stains on my hands!

It is my desire to do more painting. I love my computer art, I am passionate about it, and I am getting better at it but there is something about the paints and the inks and the paint brushes that bring such happiness.

Here is my latest computer illustration done in Adobe Illustrator: