End of August Check-In
I have pretty much gotten back into my regular schedule during the last two weeks. I’m still healing from my surgery, but I’ve been able to paint as I have before my surgery. I’m currently working on paintings that I hope to submit to a couple of gallery calls for art that are due by the end of this month and in the next few months. Related to calls for art, my painting made the press release for the Wildling Museum’s California National Parks: Stories of Water exhibition! I shared earlier this month that my painting had been accepted into the museum’s exhibition and I’m very excited about it! I plan on going to the opening reception on September 24th, so if you’re in California and around Solvang, you should check it out!
What I’ve been working on:
I decided to add three more paintings to my California Highway One series, which makes the collection 10 paintings. And now I have five unfinished paintings in the collection instead of two, but I’ve been making good progress on three of them. My goal is to be finished painting this series of paintings by the end of September because I have another series in mind that I want to move onto.
Inputs:
I finished reading Saving Time by Jenny Odell, which I really enjoyed. I decided to re-read Odell’s first book How to Do Nothing, which I don’t remember enjoying as much the first time I read it and thought I should give it a second chance. I again am finding it hard to track because it feels all over the place.
I started reading Entangled LIfe by Merlin Sheldrake because I keep seeing people I know read it. I’ve truly just started it, so I don’t have much of an opinion of it yet.
Outputs
Last weekend I attended the genARTS Who Are You? exhibition opening reception in San Jose. It was a really great experience and I enjoyed meeting more people in the San Jose art’s community. My painting sold at the opening reception and I felt very grateful that I had the opportunity to share my work in a public space.
Next week I am taking a week long trip to Glacier National Park. I’m a little sad that I’m still healing from my surgery and won’t be able to do many hikes because I have to take it easy as I continue to recover. I’ll use this as an opportunity to take a lot of reference photos and hopefully I’ll feel like I’ve taken enough photos. Every trip I take, I look back through my photos to pick out the ones I want to paint and I always wish that I took more photos.
Overall, I’ve felt like my summer has been pretty quiet with a lot of time spent indoors painting and resting. I do know that my fall and winter months are going to be pretty busy with friends visiting and a couple of events, so it’s good that I’ve been taking this time to paint and rest. That’s all for this update, I hope you are having a good end to your summer!
