Think Of Yourself As A Factory

 Day 86 ~ SE-86-25“During the last while I’ve been giving my two bits worth to several would-be painters. These folks are young, well educated and talented. They want to talk about the business of making art, the possibility of going to art school, their future in art. They also check my modest brain for what I might think galleries want, price points, popular sizes, that sort of thing. While this is all very nice, I’ve glazed over a few times, and frankly told one of them to paint a hundred paintings and give me a call when she does. There was a significant silence on the other end of the phone — as if it was just around the corner that I might coach creativity into her. “Think of yourself as a factory,” I said. That was the end of that call.” ~ Robert Genn / From Robert Genn’s Twice Weekly Letters, circa 2008
“You must continue to draw, even when you are painting.” ~ Sandy Sandy

Day 86 ~ SE-86-25

Creating A Series

"A series is a collection of paintings that, when viewed, leaves no doubt that the same artist created them all. The theme running through the work is stated and restated in different yet interconnected ways, and the viewer can look at the collection and understand more easily what the artist is trying to convey." ~ Lynette Ubel As a warm-up, I decided to do a smaller oil painting of several of the designs I'm using in my 2026 Calendars. This is a photo of my painting setup with the image sketched on my canvas board.

 Day 84 ~ SE-84-25

The Tonic of Wilderness

 Day 65 ~ SE-65-25 “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
 ~ Henry David Thoreau 

Day 65 ~ SE-65-25 

 “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ~ John Muir • Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee and is America's most visited national. It is renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life. 

Day 64 ~ SE-64-25