Blogs about: Life In Out Of The Studio
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Mini Opus
New Homeowners I’m not good at writing short blog posts. Writing a post takes me ages, both to digest and clarify what I want to say, and then smoothing out the words to say it with. Worth the effort,… more →
Painter's Progress
Mini Opus
paintersprogress wrote 19 hours ago: New Homeowners I’m not good at writing short blog posts. Writing a post takes me ages, both to diges … more →
Myself am Hell
paintersprogress wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t written here for a long time because I’ve been busy, both outwardly and inwardly, and have … more →
Black Box. Cipher. Plums.
paintersprogress wrote 2 months ago: I do not know who I am. Is this what adulthood is like? You find yourself being carried along … more →
Family Ties
paintersprogress wrote 3 months ago: My parents just left after a lovely, elongated weekend visit. I feel quite bathed in affection, good … more →
Mysteries of Adulthood
paintersprogress wrote 3 months ago: Long, tearful soul-searching session with Dave recently on a Saturday morning, both of us in our und … more →
A Clean(er) Slate
paintersprogress wrote 4 months ago: I cleaned up & reorganized my studio last week, after realizing that it had fallen into quite a … more →
Fundamentally Contrary to Human Nature
paintersprogress wrote 5 months ago: Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem c … more →
Spring Fever
paintersprogress wrote 7 months ago: The weather for the past three days has been glorious, fast-forwarded to spring, and then on to summ … more →
The View From My Studio
paintersprogress wrote 7 months ago: Easter Sunday, after a dreary day of rain. … more →
Support Systems
paintersprogress wrote 7 months ago: It’s hard to write about an inevitable part of artistic life without sounding like a self-obsessed w … more →
Indeed
paintersprogress wrote 9 months ago: It is very bizarre — I sometimes have a superiority complex and an inferiority complex at the same t … more →
The View from the New Studio
paintersprogress wrote 9 months ago: I’ve been a bad blogger lately; I’ve really fallen behind on the two posts-a-week goal I … more →
Self-Discipline
paintersprogress wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been thinking recently about discipline, about the number of hours I spend in the studio, and h … more →
"Arctic Freeze"
paintersprogress wrote 11 months ago: So, apparently it never snows here in Portland, or rarely enough so that the arrival of a mere inch … more →
A Pithy Nugget
paintersprogress wrote 12 months ago: A quote from Dave Hickey that for some reason has stuck in my head for years. And which seems apropo … more →
Psychology Experiment
paintersprogress wrote 1 year ago: So the building where I have my current studio had Open Studios last weekend, an event in which I pa … more →
"Open" Studio: A Rant
paintersprogress wrote 1 year ago: Okay, so I may be slightly deranged about my privacy. And you may find this hard to believe, coming … more →
Apropos
paintersprogress wrote 1 year ago: Two wonderful quotes from W.H. Auden’s book The Dyer’s Hand: Between the ages of 20 and … more →
