This is my professional development as an artist page. It Includes areas that I would like to explore, develop further or improve. Growing as an artist sometimes requires grooming or outright pruning, even removal of an entire branch or way of thought; thus, within this page some of the areas I want to work on are areas that were recommended by family, friends, colleagues, or viewers of my art work who gave genuine critique. This isn’t a case of me being tossed around by every wind that blows and changing my style for a particular storm; but instead, listening to the wind that blows by me to guide my direction through the storm and all the seasons - perhaps a rose, blue, cubist, abstract, surrealist or even a realist season (though, probably later in life). The point is, I’m in my surrealist season now, with Dali as my spokesman - though, I sense the weather changing. I’m willing to learn from those who came before and after me, or whatever it is that will allow me to be BRIMS. If what I’m painting now doesn’t resonate a chord with you, please check back in five years, maybe ten or twenty... I too, am eager to see what the season will bring then.

Self Examination & Grocery List:

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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