Yeah, yeah, I know – this post is two weeks late. Fear not, however, I did produce something the week before last, I just didn’t want to post it. The why of why I didn’t want to post it is probably one of the first lessons that Thing a Week has taught me. Don’t force it.
I started the week doing some beautiful tapestry work that made me very happy. So happy, in fact, that I wanted to devote quite a bit more than a week of my time to it. The task then fell to completing something else during the week in order to not break my resolution. What to do? My eyes fell to an 8×8 canvas that I started this past fall and never finished. Having just sold two pieces similar at Lala Gallery, the obvious choice was to get off my duff and complete that. A given, right?
Apparently not right. In the middle of producing a piece that was giving me enormous satisfaction, working from a happy and good place, I had decided to go backwards and add to a body of work that came from an entirely different place and made use of an entirely different mind set.
The resulting work is not something I am happy with. It isn’t terrible, it just isn’t what I want to be producing at this juncture in my development as an artist. So without further ado, here is the painting I produced.
