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Daily Painting And The Lament Of The Personal Confuser
by cooper on 1/19/2009 4:01:58 PM

Greetings, and welcome to my daily painting place.

A few weeks ago, a fellow FASO artist was bemoaning the death of her computer. I vaguely remember sending consoling words. What comes around goes around, and now it's here.

Who knew that being an artist without a computer, could be so difficult? Possibly I'm just imagining those difficulties? I am the one who almost had a panic attack when the library card catalog was computerized---and now I am lost without it? How can that be? And how is it that I find the computer so valuable in the studio? Ha! Let me count the ways.

1. Online marketing
2. Staying current with other artists
3. Submitting work for competitions,events, exhibits
4. Keeping the visual inventory current

Then we get to the actual 'tools' part:

5. Uploading the current canvas to 'black and white' it to check values
6. The model has left and you can't remember how that chin looked--there's always a spare one to be googled
7. Looking at painting progress photos in sequence, to see where it's been and understand where it wants to go
8. Cutting, pasting, moving things around, reversing-and-do-I-like-it-better-that-way?

We have a new hard drive ordered and it's supposed to be delivered tomorrow. In the meantime, I somehow beat this one into submission, and undoubtedly momentary good behavior. Let's call that moderately good behavior. At the moment the sucker is hanging open with all it's wires spilling out the back. What a lovely sight.

When things were still well on the personal confuser front, I had promised a completed image of the then current canvas, Morning News. Let's do that image now:

Morning News is an acrylic painting on a lovely little 12 x 12 inch canvas. Not yet varnished, but that's happening soon :)
And I finished yet another:

Studio Model 7 is an acrylic painting on a 14.5 x 17.25 canvas. I started it at a recent life drawing session at the art center, and decided it really wanted to be finished up rather than leaning on the wall waiting! This painting awaits the varnish brush as well. Back to the studio!

Later, Cooper

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