GUARANTEED, a gallery will ask you about the one piece of work you cannot find anywhere in your storage because it’s either been painted over or destroyed in a rage.
It’s this one… Where are you?!
When someone asks you what you do and you tell them you’re an artist, that person will always follow up with: “Oh, what kind of art do you make?” And you will ramble on about feminism, patriarchy, observational drawing, how you used to work in textiles but now try to paint…
(Elevator pitch, what’s that?)
A phone screen that always has paint on it from trying to capture work-in-progress in the studio.
Building a collection of phone-holder tripod thingies that are not meant to topple over but always do, just so you can make those fancy overhead videos you see on YouTube.
(Recommendations please!)
The little bit of paint that gets stuck in the shoulder of the tube. Yes, I’ve tried those roller gadgets!
The cost of framing.
The cost of framing that leads to the making of bad “artist” frames ;)
All your clothes are decorated with a dab of paint from those moments when you “just pop into the studio” to check on a painting before you go out. (I mean, it’s not a pet! What needs to be “checked”?)
Actually treating your art like a pet and not wanting to let it go to someone else.
(Emotional attachment theory for artists.)Deciding to “never paint on paper” again and then spending the next week working on a delicious new paper-based series.
(But the cost of framing!)
I hope you’re having a less frustrating time in the studio than me!
Until next time.
JC
You can see a portfolio of my art over on Instagram, some of which may actually still exist, but some may have been cut up for collage or aggressively painted over!
https://www.instagram.com/jkcalladine/
The fact that a painting could be "painted over" is something that surprised me a few years ago when I first learned that artists do this. No different from writers, really. Certainly not online. I'm always tinkering with stuff I've already published.
Hehehe yes very funny and all apply definitely.