From here on out

Ok, the above(actually the below, as this blog is going to post earlier entries at the bottom) establishes how I got here, as of late I have been admittly obsessed with my motorcycle pasion, with all the problems in the world, the tenuosity of my own financial situation, the raw pleasure motorcycles, buying working on and rideing them as well as hanging with my fellow afflicted friends plus all the imaginative possibilities to go out in the real world on long adventures, well it was just to easy an escape. With the limitations thrust upon me by this it is time to set the obession aside and turn to something else. As many of you know, my other 30 year long obsession has been fine art painting, which probably has done more damage to my and my families life then any single other incident as it has kept me from being obsessed with such things and becoming a sucessfull building contractor, or in some way turning to an obsession with aquiring wealth and power. I have been for the last 4 years seriously working in the studio, moving to Santa Fe for its art market possibilities, and even making some inroads into the market. The work itself has progressed much more then I had imagined it would, but I, as is my norm for anything, have not worked as hard to promote the work into the marketplace, the carpentry, which I enjoy has made enough to keep from needing to. The broken leg of course puts a halt to that for the next 3 months, as I have no employees nor large scale projects to keep me fed financially. I may work on that. But what will happen here is I am embarking on painting a large number of small affordable paintings. I will be posting them as I go along and writing of some of the trials and tribulations involved in working with a broken leg, how it is going healing wise, and my thoughts on art and life. For the most part, it will be a pictoral history of the development of about 36 12x12 inch canvases and 36 12x16 pannels. I have other canvases of various sizes already prepared which I may from time to time venture out on. I did one today, about 18x18, a dismal failure at best, I went back to look at it and it felt like my leg felt while doing it, obviously this is not going to be as easy as I had hoped. Leg comfort is going to have to be increased some how. Body posture, the freedom to not think of my self and become the process, all I realize are now a challenge. I have about six to 8 days before the canvases arrive from Dick Blick. I will post the first painting next.