Today one of my favorite paintings – a magnolia painted in acrylic with lots of touches of gold and interference blue which make her petals shine – left my Houston studio and went home with one of my top collectors. While I will miss this beauty, letting go tends to be a part of the process I love. After all, I don’t make art to hoard it. I make art so it can shine (literally, in this case), in the homes of collectors who fall in love with it.
Also, obviously, I am always making more. But I’m glad I took the time to honor this piece by taking some pictures.
Meanwhile, a stack of watercolor birds keeps growing on my work table, there’s a new painting of my friend’s black cat with Lana Del Rey, and some other exciting things are happening. And a big painting gone means I have room to make another one that size.
Though my big paintings tend to not be that big. Should I be going bigger? There are canvases rolled up with bigger works that I can stretch, but generally bigger works are harder to find homes for. Still, every now and then I want to go big. Maybe when the weather gets cool (when is that finally happening?) I can work on lose canvas on my back porch in Galveston. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, with the holidays approaching, I should probably work on some smaller things. The other day I made a tiny black cat on a gold background and really love how it turned out.
