Preparing for a show

Fall Retreat, watercolor, 9x12, 2010

Breezy Point, watercolor, 9x12, 2011

I've been going through my work and deciding what to keep, what to toss, and what to show.  I have a large stack of work that I like and is important to me, but too personal.  Maybe I'm not ready to show that work, or maybe it is not meant to be shown.  I had a teacher once who looked at one of my drawings and said something to the effect of: This is good, but it's not for public consumption.  It is showing you a direction you need to go.  I believe that was good advice.  So I have a special place to keep those and I take them out and look at them once in awhile and they inspire me.  Both of the pictures in this post have things in common with some of those pictures.

I almost just deleted that whole paragraph because how rude is that to talk about the work you are not going to show.  I figure people who create art might understand.  To the rest of you I appologize.  If everyone made art, if our society valued creation like we value exercise, perhaps I would not need to appologize.

Next I need to do some framing and organizing.