I am back and podcasting again. I hope you are doing well. It means the world to me how support you always are. Thank you so much and you are why I do this.
season 5 will be a little different but also similar to season 3. Lots of fun moments and a few new things.
I made a promise to myself last year that social media would never have more of me then my website. So if it’s there then it’s here but not vice versa.
I got this idea of captions in photos from an artist I know. She is brilliant.
Just been one of those deep and hard years but it is ending beautifully. As much as it can.
So as a painter, my big tools are not those but these.
I say over and over again “clean your tools” to myself at myself. I work with ink and paint and to be honest the ink destroys a lot of my brushes but I still love it.
They are my little babies and I should treat them to a pleasant wash from time to time. It’s a charming moment of the looking glass.
Honestly save your good brushes by washing them less but when I do wash them, do it well.
I have an issue of using half a soap each time I wash all my brushes. They seem to enjoy it.
The main point of all of this is that the big step in being a professional painter is wash your brushes but not to much.
I have this way about me that I feed off of my inner voice trying to talk me out of things. It mostly is a passive thing but some times I’m enraged by the self doubt. I cut bits of it away to see the problem and try to find solutions either on paper with paint and ink or writing it out. This painting was fighting me and then I spoke with Alec and it came to me.
The engine is parts, so paint it in parts.
I like how it is going now. I was tempted to destroy it and start something else but I’m stubborn.
Sometimes painting in the dark helps me see ways the light can’t show me.