We have each completed two paintings in this project. In thinking about the subject for the next piece I found myself wondering about my schedule. How busy would I be? What else needs to be done. When will I have the time to write, paint, and correspond? This is an in-escapable reality as an artist.
This blog has become part of my routine. That is good considering that it adds creativity to my list of things to do. Among the other things of work, family, friends, darts, making beer, gardening, exercise, croquet, cooking, playing music, teaching, on and on and on there also must be some time to make art.
Remaining active is an essential component of the artswivel. Wait forever to paint a masterpiece and nothing will happen. Paint ten paintings and maybe one will be good. Slow and steady wins the race and the artswivel must follow the same mantra.
So let's each make a painting about routine. Painting itself is part of this projects routine so it makes sense to me to focus on it as a subject. I really have no idea what to paint. I know I don't want to paint a calendar of my life's events. So who knows where mine will end up?
Deadline: Posted by mid march with an accompanying description.
Here's to the routine of the artswivel. Round and round without ever really moving.
until the next post,
Patrick
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Routine and Repitition...this is a good topic, because every one who desires to have a creative lifestyle is faced with this problem. How do you remain creative in a society that removes more and more of the creativity at every moment. And removes the probability of creative time, meaning there is so little time as it is, and it is all spent working or maintiaing your daily lives.
Each day I sit at my desk at my office at Montana Trucks & Forklift/Pioneer Drive/Montana Mobility/Montana Charters/ and some others i am unaware of, and each day I emerge myself in shit that is hardly important to me, but has a necessity in my life, because apparently i need to make money. Now my job is not all that bad, i do a lot of interesting things that i would never have thought i would have been doing, like setting up a manufacturing company, and doing engineering drawings and design. This manufacturing thing has really just got started, and this is one part of my job that i do have some enjoyment for. I see a similarity between the organization of this business and the organization of mark and image on canvas. Perhaps there is no obvious connection between the two, like completely different out comes, however in my mind the thoughts and organizational elements are processed similarly. Now also at my job I do a lot of tedious boring things that i see no connection with creativity, like processing vehicle paperwork, answering phones, fixing everyones computer problems, treaching people how to use the computer, etc. These parts of my job i do not like so much and feel that my time would be better spent focusing on the things previously mentioned. Maybe someday after i have suffered here in the office long enough this company will have enough resources to allow me to only focuse on those creative things and not the mundane and tedious....perhaps not and that would be the day my routine here ends.
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