Miscellaneous Notes

This Part is a collection of miscellaneous notes without much organization. In a sense, it is a placeholder for material, much of it in the form of personal notes and observations.

1. When making personal marks, choose the right tool to express the mark with.
2. Be aware of the restrictions your working environment might place on your artistic development. People who have small, cramped working spaces or limited storage and display space are likely to paint small and have limited productivity. because their working space is small, they "think" small and their progress is small. Similarly for people worried about the cost of materials. They buy inferior, student quality products which have poor performance characteristics, thereby retarding their development. They will be miserly with paint and never develop a sumptuous, generous style of expression. Their progress will be slow and their output limited.
3. Notes from a workshop with Katherine Chang Liu in march 2007:
1. Let your work get better and better and people will chase you.
2. When you finally develop consistency in your work, pick the best 16 and approach galleries.
3. If you work for a while, you will begin to understand the type of place you should send your work to.
4. Market demands should not be the motivating force in your art unless you need the money.
5. Plan your symbolism before you start a work.
6. When you leave the studio, mark on a post-it note, where you left off with information on what to do next.