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I'm at the Vermont Studio Center for the month and everything is really incredible, I've been so busy but my time here is going by way too fast!
This morning the visiting artist William Willis visited my studio and I told him I was having trouble figuring out how to "finish" my paintings because I was worried about destroying all the wonderful things that happened at this midway point.
He told me that was nothing to worry about and just to leave them for a while, that "It's like you have a friend who's missing a thumb but you appreciate them just the same."
This morning the visiting artist William Willis visited my studio and I told him I was having trouble figuring out how to "finish" my paintings because I was worried about destroying all the wonderful things that happened at this midway point.
He told me that was nothing to worry about and just to leave them for a while, that "It's like you have a friend who's missing a thumb but you appreciate them just the same."
Portland, OR
Have been living in Portland, OR for the past 6 months, pretty much painting full-time. I have my first ever "solo show" coming up next week, at Mag-Big, a retail shop with a gallery space in the back room. Very excited!
Of Land and Sea: New Paintings by Johanna Robinson
December 16th through January 14th
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 18th 6pm - 9pm
Mag-Big
3279 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR
Brooklyn Art Library
Check out my sketchbook at the Brooklyn Art Library!
201 Richards St #16
Brooklyn, NY 11231
It's part of a permanent collection so you can go anytime. Check the website for hours:
http://www.arthousecoop.com/library
Paula's Garden
Here's a book I published for my mom's birthday of photographs that I've taken of her garden:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1062677
You can click on the book preview to see all the pictures. I hope to publish some art books soon too!
Figure Drawing is my Savior
There are many things I don't know; Why I'm making artwork, what I'm making artwork about, whether or not I should even continue trying to make a career for myself as an artist. The one thing I do know: I love figure drawing, always have and always will, and that gives me hope. I can't think of any other activity that I know with such certainty that I enjoy, and every time without fail. That I can just do without thinking for hours on end until I lose track of the time. No questions about "why" or "what for" - the purpose is always very clear, just draw what you see. The past few months I've been going to an open session once a week. In unde
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And with time you may change your point of view and begin to like it.
I beleive also that "unfinished" things have more power.
Picasso said: "A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it" (Zervos, 1935)
I beleive also that "unfinished" things have more power.
Picasso said: "A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it" (Zervos, 1935)