Creative Cogitation

The lack of art pro­duc­tion is incred­i­bly depress­ing. What have I been doing?

I did get most of the tax class web­site up, all but 3 pages-but they are for part 3 which is not even going to be taught until Octo­ber.  I have spend 82 hours on it so far.  I also did my prepa­ra­tions for the part of the class I teach too, which is a sep­a­rate time investment.

I pur­chased an AC floor unit from Costco for 1/10 the cheap­est  bid for a new heat pump.  After it arrived I had to wait 24 hours as they deliv­ered it upside down; so much for the this-end-up markings.  The man­u­fac­turer rec­om­mend it be sit­ting upright for 24 hours before fir­ing it up. Any­way, after 24 hours I finally got to turn it on.  It was not quite as sim­ple as plug and play.  The exhaust hose that came with the unit was very short and not insu­lated either.  The power cord was also short.   The net result is I got the thing parked with great dif­fi­culty.  It’s up on cin­der blocks to help the hose reach the win­dow, and sev­eral feet from where I really wanted it (to improve air flow in the area) owing to the short power cord.  I also had to insu­late the exhaust pipe & the win­dow where the exhaust exits through as both were heat­ing up the room, right next to the AC. Now that all that is done it works fairly well, keep­ing the air dry and in between 85 (in my stu­dio) and 90 (in my office).  I’d like it to be a lit­tle cooler, but it is bet­ter than work­ing in the rain for­est by far.

Still no frames, still no travel plans for NYC.  I feel the need to start obsess­ing about that.  Fall show sea­son is loom­ing. I put in an appli­ca­tion for the Octo­ber Sun­nys­lope Art­walk already. Several peo­ple made noises about join­ing me on the NYC trip, but as the time draws closer, they have other plans.  It looks like I will be trav­el­ing solo.

the web, by Jake Beck­man. A canary sings in tree branches con­nected with gos­samer webs.

Yes­ter­day I finally got back to paint­ing and 7 of the 9 paint­ings I started 3 weeks ago got fin­ished: six, seven, eight, nine, Hash, Splat! and the web.  Today I pho­tographed them, did a bunch of Pho­to­shop work, uploaded the result to my web­site, and sched­uled posts on Daily Painters of Ari­zona. I real­ized today that I have about 20 paint­ings to reg­is­ter with Fine Art Reg­istry, but that is not a pri­or­ity at the moment.  Any­way com­plet­ing six of these paint­ings allowed me to finally com­plete the cell phone composite.

Cell Phone Key­pad Com­posit of 15 indi­vid­ual paint­ings by Jake Beckman

Tomor­row is another work­week with my day job.  I have to focus at least some time on get­ting ready for New York.  Toward that end I pur­chased sev­eral 24″ x 24″ gallery wrapped can­vases and I have some ideas already.

It feels good to finally be paint­ing again.  I was get­ting pretty crabby with­out it.

Any­way if you would like to find out more about the newly com­pleted work, or would like to buy some­thing, please check out their pages at my web­site: six, seven, eight, nine, Hash, Splat! and the web.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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