I am new to blogging and hope that you will have some patience as I learn what it is all about. I suppose admitting that is not cool or hip and probably makes me sound a little behind the times. For the most part, I guess that would be correct.
My life has mostly been spent raising a family and now that they have all spread their wings, it is my turn to see what the world has to offer me. Most days I spend my time checking out other art sites and trying to figure out how I can get into the mainstream and promote my art. With the rest of my time, I like to paint, read or do other craft project such as sewing, knitting or embroidery.
You may think that being an artist is easy, just splash a little paint on a canvas and hang it on the wall. Just the opposite is true, a lot of hard work goes into each painting, hours of searching for reference photos; sketching and resketching to get just the right composition, hours spent taking photographs and cropping them and juggling them and composing them on software (like Photoshop); hours spent studying the subject (who knew there were so many different kinds of deer and that their antlers are all different?); checking perspective and other details to ensure correctness; maintaining brushes, paints, canvases and other supplies. Just as writers get writer’s block, artists have white canvas block. Then, when you do get something on your canvas, you need to sell it so you can buy more supplies and continue the circle. So we are back to learning to blog and getting up to date.
To get started I will show you my latest effort and if you like it, please check out my website www.MyArtClub.com/Sue.Cowan. This rooster is an oil painting I did as a quick study and was a lot of fun to do. I mostly use acrylics but occasionally like to mess around with oil paints.
I named this blog Paintworks because that is what my life is all about, working with paint. It will be friendly discussion of various things mostly regarding art.
