"Anatomy of a Painting"

I came up with the concept for this blog yesterday, while thinking about an idea I have for a future book. I don't generally read many blogs, but know they hold an important place in today's culture and have been a great way for me to keep up with news from friends and family. I don't intend to relate news of my personal life, but to portray the life of an artist from an artist's perspective.

My first book, "X²- One Hundred Paintings and Drawings," (the hardest book title ever to look up online) was first printed about a month ago and since then I have great dreams of becoming a prolific self published author. Not that the books reflect much of my adept writing skills. I tend to leave the pages for my paintings. My second book (coming out late this summer) is titled, "Fifty State Animals," and will be all about the painting series of the same title.

However, what inspired me to write this blog has nothing to do with either of my first two books. The idea is from a third book titled something like, "The Anatomy of a Painting," that tracks the daily changes and transformations of a piece, from its initial inspiration to the final brush stroke. A photograph from each day's work would be in the book for posterity's sake. I certainly don't think this is a novel (nor a haiku) idea, but I do think it would be an interesting study of my process for me, and probably a few others as well.

So, A led to B and as I contemplated the book's details, I realized a blog would be the perfect way to catalogue the process in "real" time. Of course, I haven't begun this experiment yet. I may never. But either way, it has led me to start this blog, and once things get going you never know what might come next.