Where have I been?

Well... it's ben a while since my last post, I know. Where have I been? the truth? home. Doing what, you may ask? organizing my studio. No, it's not as simple as it sound. You see, I am a very messy person by nature. So, this month in the spirit of the "New Year", I decided to bring some order into my chaos. For this, I enrolled the help of my beloved better half, and we've been organizing, matting, cutting, catalogging, etc, etc, etc for the past week or so. Suffice it to say, I'm going CRAZY. I hope to finish this week, of I will end up in a mental institution.

Waiting for Vincent

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream"

Vincent Van Gogh

I finally finished it. It took me a couple of months to paint it (it is pretty big, 30"X40")and almost a year to start it, but I did it. I got the idea of doing a (very humble) homage to Van Gogh at the beginning of last year, after I finished reading his biography. I picked the sunflowers, because they were his favorite flowers (they are one of my favorites, too). The reason they are on the ground dying is obvious (I think): they died waiting for him, but he never came. Van Gogh was one of those rare geniuses whose work speak to generations, like Mozart or Victor Hugo, but he left this world all too soon, and I cannot help but wonder what else more could he have achieved, had he not killed himself so young?.

So, this is my humble homage to him, the master Vincent Van Gogh

Mindwalk

I finished it today. I haven't been painting a lot lately, I have a couple of oils going on, but haven't had the frame of mind to sit down and finish them. I will lock myself in the studio tomorrow and finish at least one, I promise.

Happy new year to everyone out there, by the way!!