Paint
Last night I had a really good meeting with my accountant. I’d only expected to stop in for a bit, and go over the basics, how my finances looked, and what I could be doing to optimize my circumstances. Sure enough the conversation turned to life goals and career and art, and specifically my art, and he even bought one of my paintings, Tree #7.
I’ve been painting a lot these last few months. It’s always tricky finding good stretches of time around my full time work in the digital arts. But I’ve been spending a lot of nights in the studio so far this year, and that’s felt really good.
Lately my focus has been towards this one, but I still have a ways to go with it.
The art market in Austin is tricky. We have a lot of artists, and a lot of people here care about art. We don’t have much of an art market locally though. That’s why I’ve been discussing the idea of a tri-city show with a group here called the Austin Arts Collective. We’re looking to put together a show with a collection of local artists and take our pieces around to galleries in Houston and Dallas as well. I’m personally hoping for a Human Form theme, so I can highlight a few of my figures, and because there is a body painter in the group, and I’d love to see her artwork walking around on models at our shows. I’ll definitely post more on that as it comes together.
All in all, this feels like a time of focus with my art work. And last night’s conversation was just the push I needed to get me thinking about the bigger picture with all that again.