Category: thoughts on being an artist

This a terrible picture from my iPhone.  What can I say At Last is a 36″ by 10 foot painting and you loose a lot when you are displaying it using 400 pixels.  Had a trial of a time with the two 8th notes.  I kept walking over to, whatever is the name of my last painting that is currently being posted on my website picture, to see how it was done.   So I gave it a try to repeat myself and guess what the unexpected expected happened.  Each painting demands it’s own identity and refuses to cooperate when I just try to refine a technique I learn from a previous work.  It never happens, and eventual I find a way to make the canvas happy, and bring all the parts back into focus.

I love this battle.  I know I am still young and naive to the techniques and understandings of paint and the infinite possibilities that are there………….there  to figure out each night from hundreds of problems each of these canvases present.

Scott Von Holzen

It is ten feet long……..much of the work done is hard to see in an image this small;  but understand there is plenty of ‘attention to detail.’   I have become driven in my efforts to create backgrounds that can stand on their own.  They all are abstractions.  And it has become increasingly challenging and  rewarding  to know that my efforts to allow this part of the project to have its own meaning has gain emphases.

OK, I just took a look at examples of all of the  Artists in the current Whitney Biennial 2010…………and a few of the abstract works I liked.   Most of what I looked at was ‘been there, seen that’ or just boring.  I am hoping they are all getting good money for the efforts; earned, no doubt.  I do believe there  will be a little room eventually  for me at a place like the Whitney, it just going to take and cost a lot of my precious time.

Scott Von Holzen