In a similar vein as landscapes I've done over the past year. Nocturne(ish) 14"x20". Since I've returned from the residency, I've found it difficult to finish
anything. I feel as if I'm being pulled in a million directions ideawise, and I need to get each of those ideas down as quickly as possible. This method doesn't really lend itself to seeing a painting through to the end, but I think at this point, it's the most fruitful working method available to me.
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Your residency sounds like it was really good for you. Maybe seeing paintings through isn't where it's at right now. Fast & furious... put those ideas down. Fuss about them later.
Reminds me of something I read today: [Pete Voulkos on teaching at Otis in the 1950s] "We used to have contests to see who could throw the fastest teapot and we'd try to make a teapot in two minutes complete - you know - throw it on the wheel, make a lid, a spout and a handle and slop it together real fast. We were always trying to beat the two-minute mark and we had the weirdest looking teapots you ever saw. Some were really fantastically beautiful cause you couldn't start fooling around with them, you just had to go by sheer instinct."
I know painting and your abundance of ideas is different from Pete's 2-minute teapot contest, but there's something to be said for putting it down fast & furious. Being pulled in a million idea directions sounds like a cool problem to have!
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