I’m always this side of the sun

I’m always this side of the sun

 

Orange and Pink Winter Hat
Available on Etsy

Picture of me for my friend Wanda, who claims I never post pictures of myself.
I do.
She just never sees them. haha

Betsy
acrylic portrait painting
Available on Etsy

prepping 6×6 canvas
linking to WOYWD
This was my work desk a couple days ago.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.~ Chuck Close

Becomingly Dressed
Acrylic Portrait Painting
Available on Etsy
or directly through me

 

 

I’ve fallen in love with her work. I’m reading back through some of her archives, and I love how she’s so determined to do art that she’s doing it on her dining room table..even before they’re fully moved into their new place. That is a true artist, and I admire her greatly. I once had a tiny studio in my walk-in closet, so I know what it’s like to love your work so much you’re willing to work anywhere.

 

Happy PPF, and Friday the 13th, everyone!! 🙂