Exploration!

I have been exploring Neurographica as an art technique. Conceptually, I am very excited about making art this way, however, I might be putting all my neurons in the same basket. (see what I did there?) I found a website for a global art sales. You send them your work and they suss out corporations and art collectors they consider a profitable match. I had been putting it out there to the universe that I would love to have a business manager to handle marketing and sales when this company popped up on LinkedIn. I did my due diligence investigating the company and it seems legitimate.

I am thinking that abstracts would be an easier sell than the portraits/goddesses. I thought my work with Neurographica, would be the best bet for selling my art to this art management company.

At first, It was great, I made several of these drawings using color pencil. And I have to say, I have always "doodled" imagery very similar to the look of Neurographic art.

These drawings are great, the color pencils continue to be my ride-or-die homies, BUT, I was spending hours upon hours on these pictures. I decided to try acrylic paint because it is convenient (oil painting is my passion, but I have to do that in the studio. The studio is down three flights of stairs, which my ME makes extremely difficult to traverse.) . The canvas measurements are 16" x 20". I still haven't finished it. I chose a small gesso primed panel and paint markers. The first attempt at these turned out great. The second one, not so much. Low on clean canvases, I chose a painting I was unhappy with to paint over. I haven't finished that one either. I started with the paint markers and found the aesthetic of the paint markers not at all what I wanted. I ended up painting over it with acrylics. I still haven't finished that one. Are we seeing a pattern here?

The Man took me on a shopping spree at Jerry's Artarama for my Christmas gift. Among other things, I picked up several of the small gesso primed panels and some water-based dual tip Tombow brush pens. I had a lot of fun drawing my next piece and enjoyed it enough to post it on my IG. Then I began another piece, I am less happy with this piece and plan to work on it some more. I may switch media and add acrylics or collage. Who knows?!

Here is another way my ME effects my art... My hands shake. Using a paintbrush on a larger canvas, you can't tell, but these smaller drawings with fine lines in less forgiving media, it is quite evident. I have decided just to go with it.

The thing about doing a series like Neurographica, you bear witness to the workings of the artist's mind. So as an artist selling this type of work, a patron literally gets a part of my mind, my process, my journey.

Anyway, That seems pretty dope.

This is the first piece made with paint markers

This is the first piece done with the dual tip markers.