I get a lot of ideas throughout the day. The key is to actually record these ideas so I can make them actionable. Which is corporate-talk for “don’t forget to paint a picture, doofus.”

2 ideas today.

One is from Carole Marine. She had a workshop and told her students to paint 1 small item. 10 times. On one canvas. With a time limit of 10 minutes each! I saw some of them and the progress from first to last is impressive. I’d like to try this. Though I’m loathe to paint apples :(

Second idea is inspired from an abstract print I have hanging in my living room. I’d like to do an abstract expression of my workday, from snooze (on the alarm clock) to snooze (getting to bed).

I still have 2 more ideas sketched out, the stop sign picture, and the picture of the three kids to do, as well. It’s nice to have a lot of paintings in mind, that way I can work on whatever tickles my fancy on any given day.

I’ve also been giving thought to a series of paintings exploring lots of darks. Perhaps with only a moderately light tone and an intermediate tone. I’ve been thinking of how to apply what I like about Banksy to my own work, and thinking about tone being more important than color.

For the record, I didn’t paint yesterday because I had some painful recovery from some dental work. My jaw was killing me from having it braced open for 2 hours (not to mention 2 hours on the previous day, too) and I drowned out the pain with motrin and a shot of whiskey. Which left me too tired to stay up late painting. I wanted to but just couldn’t will myself over the pain, drugs, and booze to do it.