SgianDubh

This is a great idea… i too have a gadzillion sketch books lying around in my room, all started on but then inexplicably left. I can work a book for years… on and off. I’d really like to be more on than off, i guess. Doesn’t help that i’m a bookmaker, so filling every sketch pad i have wouldn’t really be practical. Make more artists books perhaps?

Started this the other day… the design is going to be based on the Mayan Quetzalcoatl myth, the feathered serpent who brings the rain and the storms. I’ve been thinking about snakes and serpents a lot lately… i live in snake country, i practice swimming dragaon ba gua zhang, human snakes have alternately hurt me and loved me – i seem bookended by them at the moment. Quetzalcoatl often changes between man and serpent, and sometimes he appears as a man inside a serpents mouth, an image i am drawn to and which reminds me of the 6 winged seraphim seen in some byzantine Christan churches. Queztalcoatl also is a symbol of resurrection and i see him as pheonix-like. It’s a good time in my life to resurrect my wings again… wings on my back to go with the wings on my stomach. And colour. Lots of colour. :-)

Word to the wise… if you show work in multiple venues, it’s a good idea to keep consignment notes from each place, including details like titles, media and price with/without commission. Or at least a document of yr own listing where everything is… i started this yesterday as i forgot entirely where i had put 4 paintings, including one really large one! How could i possibly lose a painting that is nearly bigger than i am?? Eventually i remembered that i’d loaned them to the local hospital to put on their walls, but only after a bit of a panic.