Tag: painting

I haven’t been feeling good about my work for a while now, I’ve found it really hard to stay focused. So this is a post gathering together some of the things I’ve been working on, to remind myself that I am in fact occasionally productive.

  1. drew a red squirrel
  2. designed & printed some cards that are now for sale in a pottery shop and a café/wine bar
  3. chaffinch
  4. jays
  5. dug up and scanned some old monoprints
  6. did a clay workshop, made whatever this thing is
  7. sketched some animals from the Book of Kells
  8. painted a window
  9. made some sloppy monoprints
  10. started a large oil painting (51 inches wide) partly about Irish mythology and partly about the climate crisis.

At one point I went through a phase of trying to paint portraits of renowned explorers , mainly because I’ve always been fascinated by people with a keen sense of purpose & focus.

Lacking these traits entirely myself, I never finished any of these portraits.

Alexandra David-Néel, Ernest Shackleton (I think?) & ?? some guy

so many unfinished paintings in my studio.

i’m having one of those days when i feel horribly indecisive and incompetent, and it seems like I’m making no progress whatsoever.

making this post because I have no doubt whatsoever that months from now I will be having a similar crisis and I’ll look back at this work and think “that was such a productive time, why can’t you work like that any more you useless idiot”