What to do when you’re a bit gloomy? A run of bad luck, people not calling back, can’t settle to anything – it seems a bit pointless. I expect everyone feels this way at one time or another. I can usually forget myself in work by doing something different or new technically or by devising new images to inflict on my diminishing public.
Sometimes even this doesn’t work and I sit feeling morose and the inclination comes to cheer myself up by looking up some old friends (the kind that can’t give you a hard time). So I turn to my bookshelf, or more lately to the internet to look for the best in my view of painting, and remind myself why I got into painting and maybe find something new or that I hadn’t noticed before.
This can be a dangerous thing to do since it is likely to reinforce the impression of oneself as not being a worthy member of this particular fraternity.
This is what Ive come up with lately.
First up, Lawrence, gorgeous sketch, known it for a long time.
Alma – Tadema;
another head, Degas;
Noir Film Still;
Donghi;
1960’s illustration
Paul Fenniak;
The next two, I don’t know the artists perhaps someone can tell me;
Lastly a drawing by Aaron Wesenfeld.