Val Gal

February 14, 2016 (To see how I am working on these sketches scroll down to the Saturday morning section of this article) I had been doing a fair amount of creative work in the week so Saturday I did a lot of organizing. The Art Moi Inventory app is getting easier to use. This encouraged me to really start finishing the Madonna Collection.  The Madonna Collection is a series of photographs and sketches that span several decades.  The Madonna Artworks were created in the 1980's but were never finished.  The Madonna photographs are being created right now.  This is what I was working on during the week. The Madonna artworks are mostly in black and white and were created during the musical era of Blondie and Madonna. This is when the two stunning women were much in the limelight.  They were also very much competitive in both music and physical appearance.  This is also a time when I decided to follow the art scene full time. It was my pleasure to f...

A new guiding idea Last Saturday I got up with a new guiding idea: Do things slower, better and more simply. I had been running like a chicken with its head cut off to film Valuable Gallery Exhibits in my spare time.  This had to change.  So I decided to spend less time making the exhibit perfect, perfect and more time in a holistic approach to the project.  In other words, the online part of the exhibit would be just as important as the actual private exhibit in the Corridor Hallway. Separating Set-up Time and Online Time Practically I had to  cut the setup time in half and work with the filming and cataloguing time in the other half of the period. Remember that the Valuable Gallery exhibitions follow the change of seasons: that is summer, fall, winter and spring.  So for half of the spring time for example, I would refine the exhibit onsite.  that is I would work with the images that were better and I would perhaps change the images that had s...

Continuing the Gallery with a Steep Cut in Income I started the new year with a steep cut in my living income.  The question is how to continue working on the gallery without spending as much money as I have in the past.  As I pass the artwork in the Corridor Lobby I see quite a lot of work to do without even having to frame the picture. Just after breakfast today, I cleaned up the identity tags.  there were some from last exhibit and some had not been installed yet.  That done I changed the position of two exhibits that had been not properly placed. I have received a few beautiful tapestries that I want to hang up.  But they are still in storage.  I also have two frames that are not finished.  I have been waiting until my budget permits.  Also, I have been working on inventory with an app I found called ArtMoi.com.  One of my drawings would fit nicely into one of the frames.  So I will work on that today. How to continue working...

It all started when I wanted to change my small square image for the Winter Exhibition.  the task was supposed to take five minutes.  I would make a fresh collage.  Everything was prepared.  And just scoot the thing in.  All done. Unfortunately it did not turn out that way. First of all there was a Holiday Season decoration still installed on the picture.  So that had to come off.  And if I was going to take it off I had to film it.  This work was in the Rose Studio and the ornament was not just any ornament, it was chandelier inspired with real chandelier crystal integrated into it.  So I had to take a picture of it. And if I had to take a picture of it then I had to install the proper set up to that the light and shadows worked.  And if I took the trouble to do that then maybe I should film All the other ornaments from the Holidays.  And before I did that, I had to finish some with some new crystals that I had gotten. And w...

The Magic Space Holiday Exhibit is over and Val Gal starts the Winter Exhibit. Val Gal is not just a simple gallery.  It is a gallery in a women's residence that emphasizes rest and inspiration. So all of the images are created to create a sense of calm and good feeling. Last year the popular series of "Creative Muses" appeared on site. These magical muses start to appear in regular neighborhood scenes.  They are created from the positive energy a busy neighborhood gives out when work is being done.  When I introduced the Creative Muses I was banking on the tendency of the women in this residence to escape into the world of film, news, movies and fantasies.  I imagined that they would love to meet some of the creatures that populate the popular film for example. (Like a runway model for example). This week the winter exhibition heralds in a new kind of spirit of industry.  These are "ghostly" apparitions that like  the muses before them, visit the sma...

Studio Work Saturday: Morning Saturday I usually go thrifting but the store was closed that day.  I had gone to the pharmacy on Boxing Day and the place was in a chocolate frenzy.  The chocolate had been slashed to half price and people were running around with tons of chocolate.  There were lots of people and they were spending like crazy.  So much chocolate did some customers have, I thought they would die soon from chocolate overdose. I had gone to the pharmacy for a completely other reason. I just watched the people go for the candy and left. But the experience haunted me.  I had met Jane Fonda pretty recently and she had had one of her most lavish dreams granted.  Just like me, she was told to eat chocolates when she had no energy.  And like me, because chocolates make you fat, she bought the cheapest chocolates she could find. I don't meet her often. But when I met her again she said when it comes to chocolates quality does matter too. Sh...

After all the hurrying I did for Christmas Day I thought that I would just do some tidying up online a little before I started my Studio Work this Saturday.  I thought,  it would just take one second.  I would go to the proper file, and put the Pen and Ink Drawings onto my Wealthy Art sight. Unfortunately it took almost all day to find the files.  I remember doggedly going onto the computer late at night still nervous about some missing files.  So this prompted me into a frenzy of organizing my files, both paper and online that is still going on now (Tuesday). I had the day all planned. First I would take down the little dog under the mistletoe which is very Christmassy and replace him with the "Ballerina and Time" (a collage done by myself). Then I just would, neat as a baby, go take my snowy scene from the dossiers downstairs, quickly change the muse into one that was better and put it on the wall.  To date neither are done but I have both images near m...