I have such a love/hate relationship with open studios. I love arranging my work on the wall and looking at what I’ve accomplished with fresh eyes, but I hate the cleaning and particularly hiding the distracting clutter that I don’t want people to see. I love having friends visit and meeting my studio neighbors, but I hate just sitting there when nobody is coming through. I love when strangers have a positive reaction to my work, and I don’t mind (much) when they just shrug and walk away. In the end the pros out weigh the cons and so I shall continue on with the open studios.
Portraits
This year I sold two pieces based on paint studies that I had done in Florence. It was exciting because I’ve only started making paintings from my plein air sketches. The challenge is finding a balance between the energy that comes from painting quickly and on the spot with the precision the the studio environment allows for.
Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures of the ones that I sold, but here are the original sketches.
Florence paint sketches
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