Rethinking Success

Lately I’ve been blogging about a list a questions I made for myself regarding my art career. It’s for the purpose of achieving the goals I’ve created on my new Art Plan. Once I’ve answered the next question, I’ll be half way down the list. In the meantime, I’ve been chipping away at the paintings for my late November show and I finally finished these two, but these aren’t the best photographs, so forgivem moi.

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Key’s Ranch, 2015. Oil, paper, and fabric on birch wood panel, 10 x 10 inches.

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What Really Matters?

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Pictured above is the most recent completed painting called Flintlock Terrace: oil, paper and fabric on birch wood panel at 18 x 24 inches. It’s actually only the first piece I have finished for my upcoming show at the end of November, Rock and Refuge, at Craig Krull Gallery. That’s in addition to what I already have on the birch wood panels here that haven’t been sold yet.

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Clean Slate

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It’s been over a week since I’ve quit smoking now and they say that after the first week, you have overcome your battle with “physical” withdrawal. The rest is in your mind. I’m not sure how that works out since I’m on the patch, but I can say that I am starting to feel a little bit better. The cravings are less at the very least and I am back to painting, but just a tad. Nothing too ambitious or anything.

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