While some may see this as selling my soul, I see it as keeping the lights and heat on in my house. I shall be painting yet another pet portrait. There are worse levels I could stoop to, none of which I shall name here. I am going to approach this opportunity to paint poodles as I would any other painting, it's going to be a very good painting and it will just happen to make a pair of very cute poodles its subjects. There have been plenty of great paintings with dogs in them and many people have an easier time relating to dogs than they do other people, and I don't blame them.
I can't figure out if I want to wake up at 5:30 am in the morning to work on this for a couple hours before the kids wake up, or stay awake until 11:30 to get in a couple hours after the kids go to sleep. I think that waking up earlier would provide a higher quality result but staying up later is so much easier to do and nothing is impossible with Coffee, right?
I am looking forward to embarking upon a new clutch of paintings after I finish one other promised project for Moyo Ogundipe who asked me to paint roses on a shirt for him. This was almost 2 years ago, but I am determined to follow through with my promise no matter how embarrassingly long I've procrastinated.
I found this intriguing site: http://www.illustrationfriday.com through my acquaintance and artist Christine Pointeau. Hopefully I'll be contributing soon. Illustration practice is much needed if I hope to ever complete a humble zine project that I also have bubbling in the back waters of my psyche. Enough of this kind of talk, I heard a proverb recently that went something like this, "It is useless to talk about what you plan to do."
I have a new show at CU Denver in the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Media; this will be on display until mid-March. I remain very obstinate about this idea that I have to conform to one style or subject matter in order to have a cohesive body of work. The show exemplifies this as I have representational paintings as well as collage, dealing with similar or even identical subject matter, but very different in approach.
My question being: "Why is it frowned upon for an artist to paint in many styles, but acceptable for an artist to paint in one style, sculpt in another style and have installations in yet another style?"
3 comments:
Yeah the style issue is the big debate. Fine artists have to have a signature style. While Artists in visual development for movies, get the chance to do many styles to fit their clients need. The downside is you have to be good at switching styles to get hired.
There is a downside to anything.
My goodness, John Hull would tell you the best paintings have a dog in it. Think of the painting as a commission. :D
Hello Veronica,
You should absolutely try the Illustration Friday every so often. It's great in generating new ideas you would not otherwise have.
As for style, it is funny, isn't it, that artists should are supposed to do only one thing?
I'll usually settle for 2 styles in one show. Congrats on the show in Denver. Will you be posting pictures?
Take care and good day,
Christine
Oh, and by the way, there is nothing wrong with paying the bills with poodles! :D
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