A check in & art about art
Hello!
I just posted a check-in on Instagram if you’d like to stop by. It’s up for 23.5 more hours. Click my profile picture to access it.
I bought oil paints this week, which I’ve never used before. It’s been a while since I’ve tried something totally new with art. I am enjoying those beginner feelings, and remembering how many things I have not yet made, how many ideas I have not yet had. It can be easy to feel like the best has come and gone, but of course, that’s pretty unlikely.
(CN: covid) I don’t know how things are in your community, but covid is absolutely raging and overwhelming the healthcare system where I am. For what it’s worth I want to encourage all my friends to vax, distance and mask - and that’s you all. Please pretend it’s April 2020 and take it super safe! Hoping with all my heart for as many as possible to survive these coming weeks and sending my deepest love to everyone who is grieving those we’ve lost.
Hang in there. Send me updates on how you are if you’d like. We’re in this together.
Algorithm-Free Art
Here’s some of the work I’ve shared since my last email. I’d like to make it easier to connect away from Instagram and the social media algorithms. If you know someone who’d like to see my art outside of the feed, feel free to forward this on to them!
TODAY: ART ABOUT ART
Trying to understand
how my creative practice
is refuge, antidote, escape, complicit
to a world that is falling apart
full of brief
lives.
Smoke days, and brilliant
smog sunsets.
Gatherings, and covid
deaths.
See the process here
“Making art while the world ends/goes on”Ink, acrylic, digital on paper @britchida 2021
CHECK IN - UP NOW
A new check in is up for 24 hours. Come on by for a quiet moment on the internet.
ps. If you’re new, welcome! Check-ins are interactive poetry and art installation and a chance to listen to yourself. There are no right/better answers and I keep all written responses private. Enjoy!pss. the background for this piece is oil paint - soooo smooth!
EARLIER THIS WEEK
Here is some very happy painting. I’m working larger, at last. I have these three pieces, each now in a middle stage. I stopped when Elsa did a sweet little dance and knocked over my paint water. So now I let them rest and begin thinking: What marks come next?
I actually bought these canvases several years ago and never used them. I felt not-ready, like the pressure to make something that was justified in being so big outweighed the joy of making the marks.
Recently I’ve been prioritizing painting again and realized that while I did not feel confident-ready (which only comes with experience) I no longer felt not-ready. So I got my guts up and poured some paint. And it felt just right.