d’Arte Board

(That’s spoken with an monotone eastern European accent.)

There has been talk of the individual approach to process and time management this week on the blog. It was addressed in a post from Tuesday.

Lately I’ve really been busted trying to manage my time in the studio. Its a drag with a capital g.

I work in a variety of ways. My monotypes, due to the nature of the medium, are produced rather quickly, in a matter of hours or less. Sometimes a painting will take but a relatively short time depending on the energy, the conceptual circumstances and how efficiently my subconscious is doing the thinking.
Other times, a piece or pieces will go through the whole “create and destroy and create” exercise and may take weeks or months to be realized. Here is an example of a painting I started a few weeks ago which has -and will – go through a metamorphosis as a dialogue of sorts. The conversation is all an adventure and will go through so many changes I may not quite know where it will end. The piece was started as a part of an ongoing series of paintings connected to the idea of the “purdah” and its related symbology and meanings.

I started it as a straight figure, but I unfortunately don’t have documentation from that first stage. Then I furiously worked into it.
a stage from a few weeks ago:

It wasn’t working for me; it was at a narrative and formal stage I wasn’t satisfied with. so I continued.

and another stage

Here it is staring at me now:

I wanted to push the form, the abstraction and the marks somewhere else. I’ll sit with this a little. it might be finished; I’ll keep you updated. Cause I know you care.