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Selfie<\/em>, Oil on Panel<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve begun to have a deeper appreciation for deadlines. I\u2019ve been painting on firm deadlines for a couple years now, first for a two-person show at Oxford Gallery in 2012, then a solo show at Viridian Artists this past summer and now another two-person show at Oxford in March, 2015. This last deadline is pushing me to do things I haven\u2019t done before, such as work on more than one painting at a time, and it\u2019s also motivating me to develop more efficient ways to paint.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain optimum pace for developing a painting. Too slow and fastidious, and the life drains out of it. Executed rapidly, it can sometimes come alive in a rare way, but it\u2019s an unreliable and risky way to proceed with something that might quickly fall apart\u2014which are then wasted in a discouraging way on a deadline. When I attempt premier coup<\/em> work, as Edwin Dickinson referred to it, and I know it\u2019s going well, the propulsive momentum of the work adds a different kind of vitality to the image. The effort gets concentrated into a comparatively brief time, and the life of the marks vibrate with the pressure of that quicker execution. It\u2019s the most difficult way to paint well, because much is at stake and there\u2019s little \u201cgoing back over.\u201d I read somewhere long ago that Francis Bacon loved tight deadlines. He would do much of his work for a particular show at the last possible minute and hang the paintings still wet. It isn\u2019t hard to believe, given the the way he pushed paint around. For him, it worked. Yet I love, just as much, paintings that take weeks or months to complete, and they convey something far different and more subtle, some hint of what Keats called \u201csolitude and slow time.\u201d I\u2019m attempting to finish examples of both kinds of painting for the show next year. In either case, deadlines are giving me a greater sense of discipline, as well as a wistful sense of how much time I used to have to do other things. (On top of the daily painting, seven days a week, I\u2019m also up early, working on writing projects that bring in the bulk of my income. I paint with the time left free\u2014and I\u2019m able to do it every day.)<\/p>\n

I tend to work in successive shifts of three or four hours, with breaks for meals or errands. I\u2019m learning to get more done in each of these windows of opportunity. I calculate exactly how much I need to finish on each day throughout a given month and then track whether or not I\u2019m ahead or behind of my quota. I expect by the end of the work for this next show, I\u2019ll be producing probably twice as much work as I have in the same period of time in the past. One thing I\u2019ve observed, no matter how much I\u2019m enjoying work on a given painting, I procrastinate before sitting down and picking up a brush. Once I do, and once I put down the first mark of the day, it\u2019s as if I\u2019m already at full speed. There\u2019s no ramping up, no acceleration: I\u2019m fully immersed on the step-by-step progress of making the image come to life.<\/p>\n

On balance, deadlines are helping me take my work to the next level, not only because it\u2019s making me refine my work methods, but also because there\u2019s no way to adhere to them without bringing the most focused sort of attention to the process. That attention\u2014a heightened awareness of what I see and what I\u2019m doing\u2014is what it\u2019s really all about. It would be nice if I could bring it to my entire life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve begun to have a deeper appreciation for deadlines. I\u2019ve been painting on firm deadlines for a couple years now, first for a two-person show at Oxford Gallery in 2012, then a solo show at Viridian Artists this past summer and now another two-person show at Oxford in March, 2015. 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