Thanks to a viente Pike Place Roast at 4pm (what was I thinking?) I am still awake at 4am and counting. The good thing is A) I don’t have to work at my day job tomorrow, and B) I’ve been getting a good deal of work done. I grew up with an artist dad, and based on my memories all-nighters are kind of normal. You can concentrate much easier without as many distractions. One of the things I used my Kickstarter funds for was good studio lighting, and now I’m really seeing how valuable it is.
One of the paintings I completed tonight is a 12″ square called Big Bang. I’m running out of my standard paint colors and having to branch out into non-standard ones. But maybe this is a good thing. It’s so exciting to see this series evolve and change. I have a bright orange one on the work table right now. I have at least 8 or so of these to make (I’d like to give my backers some choices and I had 3 choose this size) so I’ll be picking up more paint before I finish them, but I am loving the bright colors. I already completed ten paintings in the 8″ square size, and the brightly colored ones are some of my favorites.
In other somewhat related news, I have all my new limited editions up on ArtByChristel.com now, and I am planning to put up all the available new paintings next week. Yay!
