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Still in the groove from a couple of weeks back, consistently painting and drawing, and turning out some fairly satisfying work. I’m not as amped about the stuff I’m doing right now as I was two weeks ago, but I now know that can change on a dime (in either way) and it’s a fact of life I’m now well on the way to accepting.
Gotten ahead on a couple of longtime “habit ambitions”, too: planning at least a few months ahead on both paintings and inkwork, and setting aside a little time each day (fifteen minutes on workdays, thirty on days off) for digital art (right now Autodesk Sketchbook on an iPad OS 17, but I’m keeping my eyes peeled for other programs). It cuts a little against my grain to deviate so much from the “do anything, whenever” ethos that powered so much of my earlier work, but tightening the discipline’s helped a lot in other areas of my life, so here we go. Turned forty-nine this weekend and am keenly aware of the stocktaking instinct grabbing hold; hoping to have some more solid resolutions ahead for my fifties as well as 2024.
The header’s a comparison shot of two small portraits: Justine and Justine the Second. The first was acrylic on canvasboard from April 2020, the second oil on cardboard from a couple of weeks back. Started at random but I’m pretty sure they’re of the same person and I’m fairly happy with how it seems things have progressed since then.
How’s your work going?