The past few weeks have been a crazy mix of tremendous work at the gallery, including the start of The Small Ad Shop, (a boutique advertising firm that will operate alongside saltfineart) AND an overwhelming desire to throw myself into new creative projects at home.
Lately, I've been exploring my background in illustration and design, finding myself less inclined towards defining myself as a fine artist with HUGE panels. I am working small again. Above is the finished illustration for Joy Shannon's latest album tentatively entitled "Out of My Dreams." This piece was completed in about two days after spending weeks trying to wrap my head around an earlier design on a much bigger panel. I realized, in part through this project, that I tend to chase ideals that I do not bother to fully categorize or even plan towards. I just run, run as fast as I can towards what I want without any real thought as to WHAT and WHY and HOW.
How that translates into my art as a whole is unfortunately a lot of wasted panels with half-expressed ideas. I get bored and move on or get intimidated and flee or just get distracted by another idea/goal. At any rate it's a very inefficient way of going about things and I've decided to make a concerted effort towards finishing anything I find worthwhile in starting.
a.k.a Don't Panic
