February 1, 2015
One small painting and three drawings from this week.
“Art is long, life is short.” – Hippocrates
Graphite
Your Life Goals are Not Your Habits…
January 25, 2015
“Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We’re proud of you for having them. But it’s possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that’s really frightening you—the shift in daily habits that would mean a re–invention of how you see yourself.”
– Seth Godin
It’s almost the end of January and I am already behind. I have more items on my list than I have time to do them. That’s ok though. Good things are still happening regardless of my lists.
In an effort to improve my drawing skills, I am building the habit of drawing every day. I’m also trying to paint every week, although that just isn’t going to work out all the time. As much as I may have liked to, taking my easel and paints to Canmore last weekend to fit in a few strokes here and there between ski runs just didn’t seem all that practical. I did paint this weekend with the evidence below (still not finished…). And I have been drawing. Evidence of that below as well.
College Artwork
February 25, 2014
Having had no opportunity to paint this past week I have no new artwork for my blog. Instead I am posting artwork that I created in college while I was studying graphic design. After storing these pieces for years, moving from one place to another, about ten years ago I decided to photograph the ones I liked and to toss the originals. Sadly, what I thought were good photos at the time were very mediocre. And some of the dates are best guesses – as are most of the dimensions. Most of these were done as specific assignments – some quite obviously. Other’s not so much. Clearly I preferred some mediums far more than others. And maybe one day I’ll gain some rudimentary skill with watercolour – or not. And that’s ok. It is what it is.
Less talk, more art.
February 16, 2014
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
– Stella Adler
February already…
February 9, 2014
More than a week into February and I am still playing catch-up from January. And December. Perhaps I need to lower my expectations. Or not… Yes, I could live a little more realistically, but then where’s the fun in that. Sure I would sleep more and probably drink less (caffeine and alcohol…) but what a dull life that would be. Perhaps by spring I will be back into a routine and will be painting more. For right now I am still putting together all of my old artwork and fitting everything in as best as I can. So here are my January Lemons and an old drawing from way back in time.
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Recent Artwork
In the spirit of tracing some sort of development of skill, I am adding a few more paintings and a couple of more finished drawings from the last couple of weeks. I am getting very frustrated with my acrylics and debating about switching to oils. I am going to try to hold off though and work through the problems. 
Artwork from this week.
I didn’t spend much time creating finished art this week sadly. Somehow it just didn’t really happen. This is what I did come up with though. I found I let the plastic bag intimidate me for some reason instead of just focusing on lights and darks and tonal variations. I will have to come back to this subject again.
susanne semchuk 