Miami for the Weekend!

I'm heading down to Miami, Florida for the weekend, if I can get there through the snow and ice.  I want to see what the art scene is like in the Wynwood Arts District. A fellow artist has recommended that I visit the Steve Martin Gallery.  They have an interesting website www.stevemartinfineart.com. I am "stuck" as some people say in a non-productive funk and I need some new inspiration.  I'm sure the sun and surf will help things along as well as looking at some new and different art. 

Car Painting Number 4

Done! Delivered to the framer a few days ago.  I've been working on this commission for the last year and I just finished the fourth of five large car paintings.  

As I'm working on them I feel frantic that I am never going to finish but you get to a certain point and you know you are just about there.  The hard part about realistic painting is that there is no set time schedule.  You can think that just because it took you 2 months to finish the last painting that it will take the same amount of time to finish the next one of similar size and detail, but art never works that way.  Each painting is its own entity with its own life and it takes its time being born.  It leads you along at its own pace and after you've sweated and struggled and sworn that you need to find an easier way to make a living, it enfolds you in its arms and says, "Yes, this is working and feeling very, very fine indeed!"

And so I begin a new painting!

Firmament, acrylic on canvas, 11"x14"x1-1/2", $95.

Photos from the Grand Opening