Inadequacies :)

So, apparently, I'm terrible at blogging.  Haha.  There just seems like so many different places on the interwebs where I am responsible for posting new works and sharing information about my exhibitions that the blog definitely becomes low-priority.

Then it hits me.

I'm doing it wrong.  Haha.

I update so many different sites with my finished works and shows, but no where do I really share my process or sketches or all of those great (and not so great) things artists do before the finished product is revealed.  So, I'm hoping to use my blog as an outlet for those things.  I think the "artist genius" myth is still very much alive and well.  I try my damnedest to dispelled it.  Great art is not the result of just some innate genius, but rather of hard work, practice, trial and error, learning, and failing!

No one really wants to display their failures to the world, but art is a challenging field - certainly so for me.  I'm very much wholly invested in it - emotionally, physically, philosophically, mentally, etc...  Art making, for me, has such highs and lows, and some of the things that have comforted me the most along my journey is knowing that I'm not alone - especially in my failures.  Knowing that other artists - even the "greats" have bad days.  I was once in a video chat with Jeremy Lipking and Tony Pro, and Tony was breaking Jeremy's balls about a drawing he did that day that he wasn't happy with and had crumbled up and thrown away.  (Tony actually pulled it out of the garbage to show us - ha!)  The point is, I idolize Lipking (I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a representational figure painter who doesn't), and even he, with all of the incredible work he produces, has a shitty art day.  So, I, too, will share all my failures - along with other "behind the scenes" stuff - here with the hopes that both the layperson and the artist will connect with the "humanness" of the artist's work and process and allow myself an outlet for my own "humanness" as an artist.  :)