Last week I published (only one copy) of my portfolio which will make my work finished and refined in the hard-back, bound book. It is cool because I am to the point now that I think with my art I am ready to get some work in galleries. I think I am starting to get my head around art-when I first graduated I thought that I got it, but after expirencing this year I have learned so much more. I think every "artist" has their ways of painting, and for me it is I paint for a few months then journal for a few months, then read for awhile then I'll pick up a palate knife again. It is also crazy because when I'm doing one of my trees I get the cheapest paint that I can because it doesn't have to be expensive to be good. This year I have painted some monumental paintings for "The Art of Jeannine Blankinship". I say monumental because they are break through paintings for me. Joe P. God Bless him, he is an amazing artist and is full of information and I learned alot about the intelligence it takes to be an artist and about color and relationships and he gave some great advice, but I do not just paint line and I know that he thought that that would be my trade. No, no...I paint color and relationship in any form that I find to be cool. However, as a tribute one of my latest paintings was a tree painting that did incorporate line and it is done in a very colorful and vivacious way. Anyway, I am at a brink where it is time to get out there and sell some art. I am not as interested in selling my art as I am in people that I do not know buying something because they think it is cool. Ya know?
On a second note in a previous blog I talked about going to Costa Rica, well it is on the calendar! I sucked it up and bought a ticket. Life was calling me pretty loud so I decided to answer the damn phone. I am meeting a few friends down there that I went crazy with in Buenos Aires and Annie is going with so it should be a pretty good time. Cheap....hopefully. This is a time to catch up but this is also a time to work to take some pictures and maybe get something going that way- fingers crossed. from there, where to? Dunno, but as of Oct 29th I am unemployed which sounds a bit dangerous but exciting. I have an interview in mid october to go teach in Japan- if I am meant to go the opportunity will surface itself. In a book I read by Brian "head" Welch which ironically was the lead guitarist from Korn said something to the lines of sometimes we just got to stop and let God speak to us- for me the next few months is alot of change so hopefully I will be where I am meant to be. Brian had alot of insightful things to say and it seemed to make sense to me.
Thirdly, talking of books, I have read sooo many books this year. The interesting part was most of them were about rockstars that were addicted to drugs but became clean. Cool stuff because they are all about surviving. I think people like them because people identify with music and drugs and all sorts of things that cause people to suffer. I think they are like so wack self-help book-not by Billy Graham but by people who have had to suffer from the intense, dark addictions and made their way out. Its hard to identify with people that have never know such dark places.
ok, so on a lighter note- all is well in the Blankinship household! "Life is Beautiful"
peace, love, and rock and roll,
Jeannine
On a second note in a previous blog I talked about going to Costa Rica, well it is on the calendar! I sucked it up and bought a ticket. Life was calling me pretty loud so I decided to answer the damn phone. I am meeting a few friends down there that I went crazy with in Buenos Aires and Annie is going with so it should be a pretty good time. Cheap....hopefully. This is a time to catch up but this is also a time to work to take some pictures and maybe get something going that way- fingers crossed. from there, where to? Dunno, but as of Oct 29th I am unemployed which sounds a bit dangerous but exciting. I have an interview in mid october to go teach in Japan- if I am meant to go the opportunity will surface itself. In a book I read by Brian "head" Welch which ironically was the lead guitarist from Korn said something to the lines of sometimes we just got to stop and let God speak to us- for me the next few months is alot of change so hopefully I will be where I am meant to be. Brian had alot of insightful things to say and it seemed to make sense to me.
Thirdly, talking of books, I have read sooo many books this year. The interesting part was most of them were about rockstars that were addicted to drugs but became clean. Cool stuff because they are all about surviving. I think people like them because people identify with music and drugs and all sorts of things that cause people to suffer. I think they are like so wack self-help book-not by Billy Graham but by people who have had to suffer from the intense, dark addictions and made their way out. Its hard to identify with people that have never know such dark places.
ok, so on a lighter note- all is well in the Blankinship household! "Life is Beautiful"
peace, love, and rock and roll,
Jeannine
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