“Eat all your vegetables and then you can have dessert.”

Fair enough.

Translating this to painting “Dessert” to me is starting a new painting. I am SO good at starting new paintings.  I love the rush that I get from putting the first layer of color on a blank canvas. That decisive moment, getting lost in the creative process. Sometimes having no clue what I am going to paint until I start doing it.  Fun times.

“Vegetables” are the pieces that I’ve started, one way or another and.. then never finished. Blame it on my attention span, or waiting for the paint to dry, or just straight out not being sure how to finish. One way or another I’ve managed to amass a collection of 24 paintings I’d consider in the “Vegetable” state. To be fair I think this number is quite down from the chaos that was  my last year of art college.

Regardless, it’s a new month and that has been thinking again about how many months there are left until the new year and how nice it would be if I finished all these “veggie” paintings so I could start a new batch of “Cookies” in January.  Wow. Can you tell when I write on the days I’ve only slept four hours??

Any who. Art Attack! Continues. I’ll keep posting progress of these 24 unfinished works until they are… finished. Enjoy, world.

I’ve decided to restart my “Sunday Sketch updates” as time is finally permitting me to, and because I enjoy it.  I will post new sketches at the end of every week. With this I am also rebooting the “10,000 sketches” project.

To recap: “10,000 sketches” is a project, which as the name implies, involves eventually drawing/amassing a collection of 10,000 sketches. I decided to do this both because I enjoy sketching, and because I’ve found that the only way to get better at something is to do it.  A lot.  Some weeks I’ll post just a few, others are bound to be more productive. I’m not really stressing on a time line or setting an end date for this. It’s just something that I’ll be doing, and I’ll update my counter as I go.

I’m calling my current tally 102 after the five I’ve uploaded today. I think I was a little further than that when I was doing this before, but I’ve lost the entirety of the former version of my website from that year, so I’m gonna have to guess a little. I chose 102  because it reflects the exact number of sketch pages I currently have in my gallery.  Fair Enough?

Stay tuned!

Continuing on with my “Theme of the week” here are five more pieces from my archives. Woot!