Self Examination & Grocery List:
What I would like to work on (in no particular order):
1. Honing on my internal instincts, while cognitively being critical on how I apply them to canvas
2. Understanding criticism and using it to my advantage; at the same time, knowing it’s just an opinion
3. Continue to learn from the Masters; at the same time, wean my self from them and become BRIMS
4. Understand that I am an amalgam of my influences; nothing is new under the sun so to speak
5. Give Dali a break; meditate on other artists and genres
6. Allow myself a greater latitude in terms of experimentation and picture type
7. Be familiar with artistic movements (i.e. read the Surrealist Manifesto by Andre Breton again)
8. Try to understand what it is that I want to communicate, for example:
- Technical: Application of the media
- Contexual: Narrative, allusions, modern/classical, mystery
- Conceptual: surrealism, realism, abstract
9. Find the middle-ground, and continue to develop foreground and background
10. Continue to communicate with other artists, frequent art shows, galleries and museums
11. Keep a sketchbook close by -- painting is an extension of drawing
12. Continually draw the figure
13. If a figure is used as subject matter, make them speak on my behalf -- understand and technically develop the required expressions
14. Maintain a student’s thirst for knowledge