Words, Words, Words...

I've set out to make this blog a daily chronicle of my painting and thoughts on my work.  I'll work up a profile sooner or later, but simply put, I'm a unknown painter -- who has every intention of staying that way -- but who has the luxury of being able to paint everyday without having to even attempt to make any money at it.

I will freely admit that I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to painting, and hope to never quite figure it out. It is the constant discovery in my painting that makes it so interesting and fun for me. If I knew what I was doing, it would be too mechanical -- just plugging things together -- clip art on a higher level. So I hope to make this blog about  those little discoveries.

The problem with doing this as a blog is that it appears to be the nature of the beast that the first will be last and the last first, so that unless one follows it every day -- which I do not expect most people to do -- the chain of discoveries run backwards as a reader scrolls down to see what has gone on since the last visit. With the paintings I don't think this will be too big of an issue, as I don't think they are going to evolve all that rapidly, if at all. But with words, it means that I can not carry on a dialog from one day to the next because it would read backwards, or be too clumsy  scrolling up to work as I would wish. I've been mulling this over -- looking at other artist's blogs to see how they treat their blogs and how I approach them. I've come to some tentative conclusions as how to best address my concerns.

Mostly what I looked at in other artist's blogs is their work rather than their words. I would suspect that my blog would be no different, and so I think I will stick mostly to photos of my paintings day in and day out and keep my comments with the paintings very limited in scope.  I will limit my wider ranging comments -- if any -- to a single post a week, usually on the weekends when I don't usually paint.  This will allow me to comment on my week's work as a whole and keep any observations or thoughts on art  that my week's work inspired in one  more or less unified clump. This, I hope will make it easier to write, to find and to follow, if anyone should care to do so. 

I've run on long enough, so I won't make any additional comments about last week's work, except to say that I haven't a clue at the moment as to what I will be painting tomorrow and the rest of the week.  We'll all have to say tuned in to find out.