My solution? Purge all the loose ideas in my head, get in some good creation time, and make a record of all the little and not so little inspirations - do 100 drawings in a month. They don't have to be intricate drawings, or full pieces of art, as a matter of fact they don't have to follow any rules at all. 8 drawings occupy one small 6"x9" page. These are simple composition sketches.
The path it has taken me on has proven an interesting journey. Sketches may or may not become paintings. Some of them are composition exercises. Many are experiments with style or medium. One was a little foray into erasure, where I covered the surface with graphite and erased the lighter values out of the background.
Hopefully by the end of this exercise I will have an idea of the "Thread" as my printmaking professor once described it. A friend of mine told me I need to really exhaust a subject and I found that inspiring, except I need first to figure out which subject to exhaust. Hopefully this challenge will get me to that point where I am ready to really commit to something and follow through with it.
These images are of some of the most significant of the first 54 drawings. I will post some of the second half along with an assessment when I am finished with all 100.
When I am done I would like to do 100 drawings in a day. Or maybe considering the business of my schedule, I will do just 50 in a day.
