March 24th

So I am really expanding myself and in my new series my goal is to paint something I've never done or seen before.  This is just a start but the importance of a series is the learning along the way, whether I learn more about composition or color or simply how paint works.  These little pieces are only 11x11 on watercolor paper and this weekend I started about a dozen of them.  Just warm ups so that I am loose to paint on a larger surface.  So each time I enter the studio I am creating a new habit of WARMing up!
I figure you can't just start to workout without warming your muscles up first.  An artist I learn lots from  Bob Burridge always says that and for some strange reason I never did this…why?  Also with all these warm ups consisting of the same subject I now will have a series.  So all the paintings will be cohesive and if I have a show it will hang with consistency.  So try doing warm ups each time your in your studio…it doesn't even have to be paint.  You can warm up with big news print paper and charcoal, or big fat magic markers.  Anything to get you moving and out of your left brain and into your creative brain the right side!

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