Crawling towards a solo show
Have abandoned the gesso panels in a fit of logic and sanity. Just before a show is no time to be messing around with new techniques - a thing I never seem to learn. Will finish them after the show.
So today:
Yet more pinning, I've got about another 4 hours worth of work to do on Scatter. It should be done either today or tomorrow, depending on my energy levels, but it will definitely be finished in time for the installation. At one point, I thought it would still be a 'work in progress' by the installation date, so that's a definite achievement.
Framing - I went out and got frames yesterday to finish framing the monoprints that I showed at Round The Houses last September. I have three to do and they're already mounted up so it shouldn't take me too long. Also bought three other A4 size frames that were half price. Will have a scout around to see if I have anything to put in them but if not I'm not going to worry about it. I feel that I have just about enough work and I need to stop stressing myself out with it all. I need to trust the work and stop second guessing it all the time.
I have kind of given up now and have accepted that although this was probably not the best time to do a solo show, I am doing my best and that's fine. Given the way my health is at the moment, just being able to get my stuff out there at all is a victory.
Have decided that in the future, I am not going to sign up to do a solo show unless I have a complete body of work sitting there all ready to go. Feel free to remind me of this in the future when I will predictably make exactly the same mistake again. I intend to spend this next year getting well and putting together several bodies of work that could be shown in solo shows or as part of group shows. I've identified my 2-D work as a really weak area and I want to work on that this year. I'm wondering if setting myself a drawing target or goal would be counterproductive. Quite possibly, since my health really has to take priority and I'm not supposed to be doing stuff that stresses me out.
Anyway, here's a pretty picture of Scatter to be going on with.
Scatter in progress
So today:
Yet more pinning, I've got about another 4 hours worth of work to do on Scatter. It should be done either today or tomorrow, depending on my energy levels, but it will definitely be finished in time for the installation. At one point, I thought it would still be a 'work in progress' by the installation date, so that's a definite achievement.
Framing - I went out and got frames yesterday to finish framing the monoprints that I showed at Round The Houses last September. I have three to do and they're already mounted up so it shouldn't take me too long. Also bought three other A4 size frames that were half price. Will have a scout around to see if I have anything to put in them but if not I'm not going to worry about it. I feel that I have just about enough work and I need to stop stressing myself out with it all. I need to trust the work and stop second guessing it all the time.
I have kind of given up now and have accepted that although this was probably not the best time to do a solo show, I am doing my best and that's fine. Given the way my health is at the moment, just being able to get my stuff out there at all is a victory.
Have decided that in the future, I am not going to sign up to do a solo show unless I have a complete body of work sitting there all ready to go. Feel free to remind me of this in the future when I will predictably make exactly the same mistake again. I intend to spend this next year getting well and putting together several bodies of work that could be shown in solo shows or as part of group shows. I've identified my 2-D work as a really weak area and I want to work on that this year. I'm wondering if setting myself a drawing target or goal would be counterproductive. Quite possibly, since my health really has to take priority and I'm not supposed to be doing stuff that stresses me out.
Anyway, here's a pretty picture of Scatter to be going on with.
Scatter in progress