A New Year has begun and next
week will usher in the Year of the Horse, which makes this the perfect time to review
and see what the status of the I Ching Project is. As of 22 January, 2014:
30
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Completed
I Ching Paintings
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8
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Paintings
in progress
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4
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May be
re-worked or re-done
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42
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The project
has hit the 65% mark!
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The eight
paintings that are in progress are in the final stage, so this means that there
are only the four that I am considering re-working and 22 “new” paintings left
to work on, which makes my goal of completing the I Ching Project by my
birthday (the end of September) this year highly attainable.
When I began
this project in April of 2013, I had absolutely no idea of where it would take
me or even if the goal of completing a series of 64 mixed-media paintings was
even feasible - thoughts of quickly running out of ideas immediately come to
mind - but over the course of the past 8 months I have learned quite a lot about
myself and have discovered that: I have no limitations IF I
continue to believe in myself, my abilities and my project.
One of the most
important goals that I had hoped to accomplish when I began this project was to
overcome my persistent artist block, but ultimately it became about making art FUN again… to reclaim the joy of
discovery, to lose myself once again in the studio, and to see just how far I
could push an idea. ALL that and more has been accomplished over these past few
months – and there is still so much more to do and experience.
Recently, I came across a
quote by Lester Bangs that really hit home with me: “The first mistake of art
is to assume that it’s serious.”The first reaction is to
argue that art IS serious… and, yes, there are significant arguments that it
is, but art CAN be fun, playful, exciting, joyous, passionate and life-altering.
So, ENJOY your art – and PLAY.
In my previous blog post: People's Choice Award and Works in Progress, I added several works in progress pics. I thought it would be interesting to see a couple of the "in progress" pics and the "completed" pics side-by-side:
In my previous blog post: People's Choice Award and Works in Progress, I added several works in progress pics. I thought it would be interesting to see a couple of the "in progress" pics and the "completed" pics side-by-side:
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| #31 Attraction - in progress |
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| #31 Attraction - completed |
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| #58 Truth - in progress |
The pictures below are all recently completed mixed-media paintings:
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| #49 Revolution |
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| #61 Serenity Within |
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| #33 Retreat |
I have just uploaded a new folder on the White Rooster Studios Facebook page, please check out the new designs and, please, feedback is encouraged and always welcome!!
Jenn White
White Rooster Studios
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