Goats in the Snow

Cougar

In preparation for an "art marketing" seminar I signed up for this week, I wrote a magazine article about myself in the future at the pinnacle of my art career. I am still not done with it yet, but it is a good exercise in evaluating what I "really" want. It also forced me to do some much needed research on current artists who are similar to me as well as galleries, museums, and prestigious art places. Maybe someday I will post it, but for now I still have to get used to how lofty it sounds :).

I kinda like the drawing (previous post) better...

Dust Has Settled

Open Studios is over, I am back to work in an office, and winter is here. Finding time to work in the art studio has been a little hard in between the task of making money, but when I 'do' find myself there, it feels great. It might sound sappy, but after being away from the art studio for a while, returning feels joyous and an overwhelming sureness of "this is what I am supposed to be doing with my life" comes over me. I am continuing my work on the snow series and I started a sketch today that will hopefully turn into a painting.

Open Studios Tour Starts

Open Studios
October 9th & 10th and
October 16th & 17th
10am - 5pm each day

Shyama's Studio
6413 N. Boston
Portland, OR 97217

If you are interested in participating in the whole tour, catalogs and maps are available for purchase online http://www.portlandopenstudios.com, at New Seasons, Art Media, or Powells. I will also have some catalogs at my studio, so if you come there first, you can get info from me.