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100 Paintings Day 23 — Falling Behind

Posted in Creative Cogitation, Random Reverie by Jake
Aug 04 2010
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Hang Up by Jake Beckman.  A yellow canary perchase atop the telephone icon on an "end call" button.

Hang Up by Jake Beck­man. A Yel­low Canary pur­chase atop the tele­phone icon of an “end call” cell phone but­ton. The ASCII Binary arch­ing over the top reads “Hang Up”

So it is day 23 of 100 paint­ings in 100 days.  I have com­pleted 9 paint­ings and I have 9 oth­ers in var­i­ous stages of com­ple­tion.  With a good days work I prob­a­bly can com­plete all of them, but my life is a con­tin­u­ous jug­gling act and I don’t know when I am going to get a moment to paint again in the next sev­eral days.

I came back from my trip to Oak Creek on Day 16.  I painted all day, then packed it in and drove back to Phoenix.  I decided I’d rather start off my short work­week refreshed in the rel­a­tive cool of the Phoenix AZ morn­ing rather than fried from dri­ving back down the hill in the heat.  It was an unevent­ful trip home.  The usual stuff, my day job and all, awaited me.

In the last week I fin­ished Vuvuzela’s, five, zero, Call Me, Hang Up & Do It!, pho­tographed them and got the images up on my web­site.  I still need to reg­is­ter them with my prove­nance ser­vice.  I also blogged about Vuvuzela’s sep­a­rately since it was directly related to the 2010 Soc­cer World Cup, which wrapped up last week too.

Do It! by Jake Beckman, a yellow canary angle flies before the "do it" button of a cell phone.

Do It! by Jake Beck­man, a yel­low canary angle flies before the “do it” but­ton of a cell phone. The ASCII Binary reads, “Do It!”

I have found time to start 6 new pieces in addi­tion to the three 11x14-inch paint­ings I started in Oak Creek.  The three inspired by my last visit to Oak Creek are ten­ta­tively named www (or web or net I am not sure yet), MySpace and My World.  The 6 new paint­ings are all 6x8 inch ones that will fin­ish out my key pad: six, seven, eight, nine, Hash and Splat! I need to fin­ish paint­ing the Tweet­ies in 7 of these and over­lay the binary.  My World and MySpace are some­what less devel­oped at this point.

As you can see, I am falling behind-I should have 23 com­pleted and only 9 done with 9 more in the works-well short of my goal. And I still have a tax class web­site to prepare, tax class to teach, an artshow in NYC, a mess of art to frame, etc.  I haven’t even pur­chased the frames, nor have I solid­i­fied my travel plans for NYC.  OMG I am so far behind!

Breathe.

This week­end I am going back to Oak Creek canyon.  A fel­low artist JChristi wanted to camp out and I sug­gested Oak Creek as it sim­pli­fies “camp­ing” a lit­tle bit.  But unlike my last trip, this is more or less JChristi’s show, which means I am going to have to work around her sched­ule.  We are sup­posed to leave Fri­day morn­ing.  Since it is a lit­tle after mid­night Thurs­day has just started and I have many things to do before I can leave for Sedona.  I am look­ing for­ward to going back though; it is really hot here in Phoenix (112 at the air­port today, 116 in some parts of the val­ley) and it will be cooler up there.  Also being unplugged does get my cre­ative juices flow­ing.   JChristi told me to “bring my paints” so I am going to, but I am unsure how much paint­ing I will actu­ally get done.

DH is demur­ing about going with again, so our cats will have one of their peo­ple around.

Back to the sub­ject at hand. Maybe 100 paint­ings in 100 days is not a real­is­tic goal given all the other things I have going on in my life — after all I have missed my mark by 61% at this point-not count­ing the par­tially fin­ished pieces.  Embrace the real­ity.  Maybe it will be 100 paint­ings by the end of the year (at this rate-even that is push­ing it).  I don’t know, but I am going to keep at this.

In the mean­time you can cer­tainly check out the paint­ings I have com­pleted on this project, and of course if you’d like to buy one that would be lovely as well.  Enjoy. :)    two, three, four, five, zero, Vuvuze­las, Call Me, Do It!, Hang Up

Also the cell phone key­pad is approach­ing com­ple­tion and I really think it needs a place to be displayed-in fact I have already laid out the pieces and had a look-see for myself. It’s def­i­nitely com­ing along.  So if you know of any place that might be inter­ested in dis­play­ing it and per­haps sell­ing it, please let me know.  I’ll post the entire work some­where when its done.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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Tagged as: 100 paintings in 100 days, adapting to reality, artist life, artist process, ASCII binary, balance, binary birds, cell phone, day 23, Do It!, electronic communication, falling behind, Hang up, jake beckman art, keypad, self development project, time management, yellow canaries

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