Be Still and Know

I think it’s good for an artist to look over their progress for the year, so here is my progress or lack there of which ever way you see it.

The top bunch of pictures (first 3 rows) is 2010, and the bottom is 2011.  Here are a few things I’ve noticed between the two years.  First, I really dislike my art.  It’s a snooze fest.  I seriously need to figure out what I’m doing because looking back, most of this seems like a total waste of my time as an artist.  I either need to step up my game, or stop, because this is crap.  It’s funny because I didn’t necessarily see this while looking at individual pieces, but when I put them all together and realize I basically did nothing, it kind of annoys me.  It’s not so much that they are all badly drawn (some are), but mostly that there is nothing interesting, there is no vision or passion.  Maybe it was because I had a bad year, but seriously something needs to change here or I really am wasting my time.

Second, I think that I am grasping values better and I’m getting down the forms and planes better, so at least there is a little improvement.  And, I am happy to see that I’m trying new things, especially painting.