So long, farewell, auf Weidersehen, adieu

Tonight I received a message on my answering machine from the very kind, very patient owner of the café where my art is hung, asking me if I could come pick it up, as he has a couple of artists who have work they’d like to display. My paintings have been up almost a year. I can’t complain. It’s been a damn great run. And now it’s someone else’s turn. He said I could come back in a month or so, around January, but I don’t think that would be fair to give someone else only a month when I had a year. I might wait till the spring or summer to ask about new work going up. Maybe by then, I might have more than one new piece. So for now, I will just upload my new dancer girl painting to Virtual Canvas, once I get prints made. Of course I’ll let you all know when it’s up—I won’t forget about you!

I do have a reference from a work friend of mine for a gallery where she displayed some of her work. I can bring my work to show to them. Hell, I can bring my work to show any gallery now. I’m not afraid. My voice has begun to crystallize (do you say ‘voice’ when it’s painting? Or is it simply ‘vision’?). I know what I want to say and how I want to say it. I just have a mere three paintings that are in that category. Three is fine to be in a group show, but I do need to make more. Lots more. But I have a direction in which I know I want to go now, so there won’t be waffling. Ideas should come more smoothly. Execution, too. It’s all beginning to come together beautifully. Just beautifully.