Okay!! Daily Paintngs...Well, yes....

I realise that it has been almost a year since my last post. My fourth quarter of the year resolution is to update this blog at least weekly, if not daily.

Why my new resolve...well, a lot of it has to do with BrushSpace(click on to the link at the side of my page). I received a rather innocuous email a few weeks back asking me to be part of a 4 week old website for "top" artists. Couldn't resist the "top" hook and so I checked it out. What I saw was almost enough to make me want to throw away all my brushes, paints, and pencils!!! There are some phenomenal artists on there. Most notably, for me, Mark Adams, Chris Stott, and James Neil Hollingsworth just to name a few!!

With fear and trepidation, I joined the group, uploaded a few of my better images and, sure enough, received enough "followers" of my artwork to keep me going!! More importantly, as I am want to do when I spot a good artist on the inet, I started visiting the websites of these outstanding artists to perhaps gleen something I could use. To get some inspiration...

What I discovered was a real community of artist using the internet to network. More importantly, I discovered many of these amazing artists participate in the "painting a day" movement. Now, understand, I paint very slowly, so for me to agree to try to do a painting a day is a fundamental change of work habits. Especially considering I'm in the thick of painting my series of 1000mm x 800mm artworks for "Ephemeral Perception", my next solo exhibition. But, I want to paint better, so, here I go!!!

I'm not up to the painting per day yet, but I've completed 250 x 200 mm(I think 8x 10 inches in the old money) paintings. One of a tea cup...not so successful and one of Oreti Beach on a windy day. (I almost lost my car to the surf, as it surged and surrounded it...with me in it!!) I've also completed a couple of works that for some reason or other I had not managed to. Plus, I've started two more "Stewart Island" paintings. All in addition to working on two 800 x 1000 mm (roughly 2.5 by 3 foot works). It all makes for a full day. I've also joined Yessy in order to sell my Daily Paintings. So if you see something you want to purchase from me, google Yessy and insert my name in their search. I've yet to figure out what the html for my page on Yessy is.

So, I'll post all I've completed so far, and when I get a photo of it made, will post the tea cup...all in the spirit of fairness, I guess.