In the pipeline: two new pieces started and near completion. I think I am going to gesso the panels for a new diptych today. It would be an approximately four foot tall piece. Please don’t feel alienated, I promise you images are on their way.

In the meantime, if you are not familiar with Robert Henri and his book “The Art Spirit” you should be. For your morning inspiration, here are two, separate but equal, art quotes:

“ART is the inevitable consequence of growth and is the manifestation of the principles of its origin. The work of art is a result; is the output of a progress in development and stands as a record and marks the degree of development. It is not an end in itself, but the work indicates the course taken and the progress made. The work is not a finality. It promises more, and from it projection can be made. It is the impress of those who live in full play of their faculties. The individual passes, living his life, and the things he touches receive his kind of impress, and they afterwards bear the trace of his passing. They give evidence of the quality of his growth. The impress is made sometimes in material form, as in sculpture or painting, and sometimes in ways more fluid, dispersed, but none the less permanent and none the less revealing of the principles of growth.” - Robert Henri.

and then, words from a conceptual art piece…

“QUALITY MATERIAL —

GOOD WORKMANSHIP.

All combined in an effort to give you a perfect painting.” - John Baldessari, “Quality Material –…” 1967-68, acrylic on canvas.