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Working a full-time job, taking a few graduate classes, and intending to keep painting and doing all the other things I do, I have been busy busy busy lately. The pace doesn't lighten for a few days but I am inspired by/encouraged by the following random things:
I saw Alfredo Jaar speak the other night. He took a commission to make a monument to a Chilean politician in Barcelona and instead of making a portrait out of copper, he put up a bunch of bright easels right next to a school.
As I continue to research a relatively unknown American printmaker, I'm excited by the care that the Archives of American Art has been putting into making information available online, such as these amazing bits of artist's sketchbooks.
"It's OK to skim." One of my professors shared this and truly, while I have not yet taken the bait, to know it's possible to pull the most meaning I can from a couple of once-overs instead of a fully thorough read...well, it's encouraging. As much as the phrase, "it's not the best you can do, but the best you can do in the time alloted" did for me the first time I was in grad school...
There's another sketchcrawl coming up soon and I've already called one for Rochester, NY. Wanna come out to draw?
Below is a drawing I made in the museum where I work when I had a delightful moment to slow down and draw.
I'm hopeful those moments will come again.
take care,
Rachael
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