Tonight there is an artist get-together for the Via Colori thing at Winter Street Studio... needless to say, over the last week I have actually started to get a feeling for my way around the area of Winter Street and Elder Street. Martin showed me a different way to get from Humble to Elder Street and it is a lot less complicated than the route I had been taking.

Saturday's schedule is looking like this:

9am - 12pm Via Colori
1pm - 6pm Art Crawl at Elder Street
7pm - 10pm Cigar Box Auction at M2 Gallery

No Problemo! right?!

Last night I stayed up at Elder Street working until 11:30pm. The studio that Tim Snider and I are sharing for the art crawl is a two-room place with a small bathroom. Tim has TONS of work he has amassed over the last few months so he is taking the main room and I am taking the smaller one. Most of the paintings I brought have been seen before, in fact, I am tired of looking at them and am really beginning not to like them. I know I was tired last night and in not such a great mood - my thoughts as I turned out the light to my room and took one last look around at my work was...damn! this looks like some kind of wanna-be artist's blue-light-special-garage-sale. I am so ready to wrap up present commitments and take some time to develop where I want to go next with my work. I hate being insecure about my work and envy those artists who just "know" they are good, never doubting themselves for a second - that would be so nice for a change.

At my insistance, my sister sent some great pics of herself, I have a portrait in mind i want to do of her and am looking forward to getting started on it. I'm going to paint her on a 3'x4' canvas. Cheryl and I had a discussion once about my attraction to painting women who have had a slightly-less-than-wholesome life, particularly when it comes to men. Of course, Ophelia & Leda are my two favorite fictional characters and i think it is appropriate to do paintings of Cheryl and myself within this context. I feel there is much of "me" in every painting i do of Ophelia and Leda, so now it is time to paint Cheryl and I can't wait to get started on it.