No one really understands what goes on while you’re pushing the paint around and looking for something. Spent hours on a painting, still pushing, and then painted this gal quickly, almost as an afterthought. To use the paint and the energy before both were finished. And thinking about the nature of working solitary, wondering if you’ve got anything to say at all, or if you’re just fooling yourself Lots of great work in this virtual world and lots of Florida postings for the best and the brightest. Reread The Conditions of Success, a short but powerful lecture written by Alan Bowness, before dropping it in the mail to a book buyer today. Says peer recognition is first condition, before critical recognition, then patronage by dealers before finally public acclaim. Says fiercely competitive environments force us to make breakthroughs and that most truly original work is the result of group activity and consistency of purpose to get to the top. Glad to read it again, discouraging to imagine how one works in the dark so much. More didn’t happen this week than did. Brushes down, change positions. Look at it all again tomorrow #peersupport #criticalrecognition #conditionsofsuccess #alanbowness #painting #oilpainting #tobeanartist #whoarethey (at East Village, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ojln-lcJb/?igshid=1t4rz3g7c3mnz
