Art Show in Review

I'm back, a little tired...okay, a lot tired, but the drive and the time at the show was both fun and worth it. I had a chance to meet some really nice people, network with other artists and of course, sell artwork and books. Now that I'm home from one artshow it's time to get ready for the next. I'm still waiting to hear back from NY, but with hopes they'll take my work. At any rate, it's on to looking for the next show, shooting my next assignment and painting my next project. But first, out side of putting the ending for one scene in my story on paper, I'm going to get ready for bed. I'm exhausted. Thanks to all of you who made it out, stopped by to say hi, complimented my work and expecially to those of you who bought some of my work. Have a wonderful year end and I'll be back to post news as it happens.

Art Fair

Don't forget the November 28, 2009 arts and crafts fair! See the calendar on my site: www.scoreoneart.webs.com for details.

Artwork Up

Four paintings from the Broken Heart Series of oil paintings are now up and available for purchase from Score One Art Gallery. www.scoreoneart.webs.com. Additional pieces in this series is available as well. Contact for details.

It's been a year and I feel as if this blog is in the same place it was in when I started writing. I'm still blogging about art, writing and life, just as I was a year ago. I have decided to move onward, which basically means I won't be blogging often. WHile I still hope to post the occasional update on my art and writing related news, I make no guarantees. Updates on art exhibits, along with information on upcoming books, can be found on my Web site www.scoreoneart.webs.com.

Thank you for reading.

Off Day

I play an insturment, or shall I say I try to. So today I wanted to record where I'm at so that next week, the week after, etc., I can gage my progress. Well, I would have come out better recording yesterday, when every note seemed to be played with accuracy and clarity. Today is definitely an off day, where no matter how slow I play it, how much I tweek it, almost every note comes off sounding horrible. I don't know if that's because I had the typical, "I'm recording" pressure (although it's not as if I'm cutting an album here), or it it's simply because today is going to be an off day for music and me.

I have heard other muscians say they have good days and bad days no matter how long they have been playing, though I find it hard to believe any are as bad as today has been for my playing. Okay, so maybe it's not the worst I've ever played, but it's not the best. I started to delete the recording and start over on a better day, but decided to leave the horrid record of my quest back into music until the next recording is made. With hopes, the second time will be the charm.

Monday again, a time when routines have a way of resetting themselves and life takes us through the motions once again.

Today I get to share some good news with my updates, the first of which is that I did get back to work on the screenplay. I'm not as far along as I would like to be, but I am still moving forward so that's a good thing. I am hoping to be finished in the next few weeks, but I shall have to see how things go, as I am very busy working on other things right now.

The novel is moving along as well. There are parts where it just spills onto the paper and then parts where I'm trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between where I am and where I want to be in the storyline, but as the novel is still moving forward I'll chalk it up to going okay as well.

Art is dominant right now. I'm still prepping for the show and trying to get all the requested materials together for the competition. There is only one thing left to get together before I mail the package, so with hopes, by the end of this week, I can get that off my plate as well...for now anyway. I'm hoping for a win on this one because it would be very good, and exciting, for me.

Outside of that, life is life. I'm still getting ready to move, looking for work outside of my art and trying to find that one thing (outside of my art and writing) that I like to do enough to want to commit eight hours a day to. I'm not sure I'll find that one thing unless it involves art, writing or photography, but I'm still looking. I'll probably land back in the typical working environment for me, but I guess that too will be okay. A paycheck is a paycheck, just so long as I keep my art career in my life whether I land in my typical job or something more exciting just doesn't seem to matter as much.

Some days I get up and writing feels like a chore, and other days I can't wait to get started. I think most writers go through this at some point in their writing life. I won't say all because I really hate when people make over generalizations on topics, and "all" is definitely an over generalization. At any point this week has been mixed for me. I set a goal for my writing, four pages a day on the novel and at least two pages on the screenplay. It is now Thursday and I am officially sixty-seven minutes into the screenplay (67 pages). Obviously I haven't been writing the two pages a day. Actually, I haven't been writing much on it at all. Then comes the novel. Oh so proud that I have actually been working on that, but not quite at the four pages a day I had planned. Some days I hit my mark and other's I'm slightly off. The last two days have been off. I'm the type that will say, "okay, you wrote two pages which means you need to pick those two pages up tomorrow." That could be a mistake seeing as though tomorrow sometimes come and I write one and a half pages which means I am now about five and a half pages behind schedule. Maybe that's why I don't like giving myself those type of restrictions. I tend to just write as much as I feel like writing when I feel like doing it. But this time I didn't want to risk getting side tracked and so I set definitive goals for myself. Myself obviously decided not to listen to me because I'm so not hitting the goals this week.

In my defense I would have to say I am getting work done. I have so many paintings complete over the course of the last two weeks that I am one hundred percent ready for the November competition and the November art fair. In fact, I kind of have a problem since I am only submitting four paintings and four photos for the competition and I now have about ten paintings that would fit wonderfully. I have to pick four and we all know how long that could take me. Here's the thing, the deadline for entry is November and I still need to sign and shoot photos of each piece, label each piece with all required information and get the entry in the mail. That means I have about two weeks.

Does my busy art schedule justify not hitting my writing goals? Maybe. Maybe not. I think some days I just wonder what's the point? Other days I can see the end goal and it pushes me forward. Then there are those days when that movie in my head keeps playing and I'm not satisfied until I write it down. Whatever the case, I'm up early to work on the novel and after that, if I feel even remotely close to working on the screenplay, well then I'll do that too. I'm so close to the finish line for the rough draft that one would think I'd be working on it day and night, but alas, I am not.