Mie Olise Kjaergaard is my new favorite painter.
This is what it looks like outside right now.
No, just kidding.
This is a photo taken by...I don't know.
I put it in our desktop folder that we activate to be our bank of images for when our computer is idle and I didn't take any notes. Sorry. Just some eye candy.
This artist has been KILLING me with total painting skills.
It's really too bad I also don't know who s/he is.
I will use the handy dandy interne-to to find out.
So I have been inspired to make paintings from photographs of REAL people and REAL landscapes. Weird for someone who has been clinging to abstraction with my life. I realize that to make a good painting with recognizable imagery I have to look at it like an abstract painting anyway. I like the end product so much more that my purely abstract paintings. I will post pics of my new paintings ASApple.
It's Monday morning, back at work after a weekend of weird restlessness. For the first time in weeks I had a studio weekend but all of a sudden I felt like it was pointless. I started and finished a bunch of paintings so when I think about it logically, it was a productive weekend, but it didn't feel like it. I spent a good amount of time just staring at stuff. I think October is the worst month of the year for me. For the last three years it has brought the biggest questions about what the heck I'm doing with my life and why. It's like I have a mid-life crisis every year in October. At least there are only a few more days left of the month...
2 comments:
Megan,
I think it’s hilarious you have a life/artist crisis in October, must be the smell of all the dead leaves or something ;) But I think it’s healthy to take a look at what you are doing and question it, reassess, and realize new ideas and goals to move forward. Its something we all do or at least I’ll be as ostentatious to say “what good artists do” so we don’t sell short and make the same thing for 20+ years.
Just recently I was looking at the resumes of my favorite artists to find out what grad schools they went to and found all my artists are middle aged. So they have had far more opportunities and experiences in life/artistically to have progressed to the work they make now.
I guess what I am saying is you are doing great, these times right now will be the foundation of your art for years to come, so absorb everything thing you can while in Japan and wherever else you guys go and make lots of art to learn from. What you do and your passion always inspires me and others, so good luck with your October life/artist assessment! I can’t wait to see the results.
Thanks Michelle. I am really glad to commented back because it really puts it in perspective. It is hilarious that I have an October-life crisis every year. maybe I should have a party for myself every year just for this reason, like a birthday but not... or a certain ceremony like writing my worries and questions on papers and burning them in a special fire.
I know I will have big questions all my life and you will always be someone I check in with to make sure I'm not crazy. Thanks, Michelle1
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