Jona8than Green Art and Other Things

So I have done this before and while I may not always achieve everything I have put on these lists, it does allow me to focus a little more. Goals and projects change over time as do values and so forth, nothing is set in stone. That's why I type them on the internet, allowing me to edit them at will!!

1) My first goal is to continue making more prints at St. Michael's. I would like to accumulate a good body of work from there. Would like to make the goal of six editions. It's easy to make six prints, it's the editioning that gets tricky.

2) Drawing. I would like to draw more, just sole drawing, least once a week achieve a good drawing or small series.

3) Read a little theory once a week, then kick it to the back of the brain.

4) Get my comic book with Paul Muller photocopied and out there.

5) Assemble my portfolio, get good documentation of it.

6) Bookwork started.

seven) Do something with my Chuck Norris Journal

8)Save up money for traveling and such

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I woke up and was tired, been tired from the get go. Last night's escapades at a studio party didn't help, but was fun and awesome. Though I will say I felt self conscious at times; I suppose it is just because I don't know these people well enough yet and I am not yet comfortable with them. I get anxious and come off too strongly, too wired up. It just takes time really, it has always taken time for me and other people to gel.

It was a good weekend of art openings and chatting with people. The new A1C Gallery had an opening which was really nice, it was called "Rock Can Roll" and was of contemporary Newfoundland artists. I really enjoy the space there, very intimate and cozy, it has a character beyond the white cube of most spaces.
Eastern Edge Gallery had an opening as well, and that was of Kym Greeley's show "TCH", another artist Scott Rogers arrives today to install his work in the gallery. It's a two person show, but he couldn't make it in time. Kym's work was great, looked really well in the space and she had a little picnic in the space. Everything was just right for the show.

In terms of work I have been a little slower this week, slower i the sense I didn't get at anything since Monday or Tuesday. Just really debating what to be doing for a while. The problem that causes that is I act like I don't have forever to make my art so I debate which piece to do first. I have many ideas, but end up trying to figure what to do next. When really, I have alot of art making ahead of me and should just work on what ever is available. So silly sometimes.

So tonight I am working on a intaglio plate. I just finished etching it and will probably go do an aquatint on it next along with some drypoint. Been looking at some soft ground possiblities for another plate or maybe a soap resist on an aquatint. The "drip" look of the soap resist is very neat.

Beyond that, there hasn't been a whole lot of going on. I hope to have the day off tomorrow so I can print all day in the shop. That would be swell.

What drives me as an artist is that I think everyone is unique, yet everyone disappears so quickly. "

Christian Boltanski

This was the Top Eleven list of things I wanted to do the summer. Since summer is over, I figure I would review what I have done.

1: Make lots of prints at St.Michaels' this summer - been doing okay, wasa slow period for a while as I got used to St. Johns and working. I seem to be doing a lot more now

2: Make a piece of furniture [preferably] or something under the brand "Team Shake N' Bake" with brudder. - Not done, failed there. Lack of a lot of things

3: Drink a Booster Juice once a week - sometimes more!

4: four drawings once a week, despite any odds - this had its variables, and I think I have focused my time into my printmaking

5: Through communication with others, engage in art work producing capabilities through the mail with bon amis. - not done there

6: Get an ordinateur- preferably a Mac - nope

7: Do some video work - nope

8: Write a short story or perhaps some poetry, and better not be flakey. - nope, just this flakey blog

9: Find a way to Berlin, hang out with the harlow trip peeps and meet beautiful german girls - just a dream there

10: Go on a living spree, party like a skeet skeet muthafucker - a few times; not as wild or much as maybe needed

11:... make sure my apartment doesn't turn out like this - my apartment is pretty cool now, better than the other place.

So now I should come up with a list of Top Eleven Things for the Fall season to be chasing after.