{"id":105,"date":"2015-02-05T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrdesignz.wordpress.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:44:17","slug":"some-days-are-such-a-trudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/some-days-are-such-a-trudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Days are Such a Trudge"},"content":{"rendered":"

One step forward and three steps back. \u00a0That’s what it feels like some days. \u00a0This year I’ve committed myself to be in my studio every day painting. \u00a0Some days I can’t leave and seem to make a lot of progress and other days it’s all I can do to pick up my brush.<\/p>\n

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It’s not that I don’t want to paint; it’s that some days I get so discouraged. \u00a0This past week I had one of those days. \u00a0Of course it was on a Monday during a cold, gray and snowy day. \u00a0I spent half the day going over art business videos and researching galleries. \u00a0When viewing other people’s art I sometimes get discouraged and it seems that I am not good enough or that I don’t have enough to submit to a gallery for representation. \u00a0My smaller works don’t take a lot of time, typically 8 hours over a course of the week but my larger works can take time. \u00a0When I go through what I call the “ugly stage” which is blocking in the first layer or so it just doesn’t look good. \u00a0I probably shouldn’t be looking at other people’s art during that time, even if it is purely abstract.<\/p>\n

The two portrait paintings I’m working on are also panel board. \u00a0One with a slight texture and the other completely smooth like they had to use in the 15th and 16th century before canvas. \u00a0I wanted to compare the two and see which I would prefer to use in the future. Although I’ve used panel board in the past I wanted to see which gives me the detail that I am looking for in a portrait as I paint on each board. \u00a0I’m alternating between the two in between each paint layer to get a better idea. \u00a0That’s one of my frustrations but yet it is also a way to push myself further.<\/p>\n

So, I’ll trudge on and all I can do is give it my best and hope it comes out close to what I am expecting. \u00a0I shouldn’t punish myself as I know it always turns out in the end even if I’m not quite as good as some of the more professional artists I follow. \u00a0I do what I can do and that’s all that I can do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One step forward and three steps back. \u00a0That’s what it feels like some days. \u00a0This year I’ve committed myself to be in my studio every day painting. \u00a0Some days I can’t leave and seem to make a lot of progress and other days it’s all I can do to pick up my brush. It’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-painting","category-painting-progress","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicritchey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}