My neighborhood has a garage sale day and I have decided to turn my garage into a pop up gallery to share my artwork. This video is all the prep work going into the art show. I go through all my work, varnish paintings, and install the show!
It’s been a hard two weeks. My baby has been in the hospital twice. I make art to help me process and reflect. In this video I work on a drawing and painting, it helps me get in tune with myself letting me realize that I need to ask for help so I can rest physically and emotionally from the traumatic two weeks.
Self doubt is the killer of joy and progress. As I review my previous years artwork and work flow I see that self doubt has been keeping me down. While I continue work on my “Sirens” painting I discuss the three rules I will be following for the rest of the year to combat my self doubt.
I have three rules that I follow that let me work from home with a baby. While sharing the three rules I also take you along my day as an artist as I make an ink drawing of a little prince. I share my tools that I use to make the drawing and also show a time lapse of the drawing being created.
In this art vlog I take you through the process of going from my sketch to starting the painting, “Sirens”. I show you the canvas size I used and my excitement and apprehension about it. I also give a fun fact about the canvas I am going to use. I begin by using charcoal to lay in my composition and I have a few roadblocks but I show how I overcome them. Then I start Read more…
