Working and Reworking

It's time to come back down to Earth for awhile.
This past weekend at Rock and Shock was pretty amazing. As I mentioned in previous blog everything just went so well.
But now I sit in my office, in front of my computer and trying to decide, "What next?"
My emotions tend to spike and balance themselves in a weird Yin-Yang way.
So I am on guard because my emotions reached such a grand high this weekend that I may come down equally as hard. Sometimes you just got to keep moving forward. You reach down and find a way through. But there are sometimes where maybe you just have to accept that you just need a down day. The key is to just try and let the body rest and accept that you are human.
I try to take the good energy from the weekend and focus it on making better art or to take all the great feedback I received from all the people who stopped by my table and apply it to my work or my products for my store.
Its not as glamorous as painting, but it is necessary.
I am really lucky that Friday begins my latest 13 Nights of Halloween. This year is going to be absolutely epic. This year is the 1st year that all the paintings in the series are NOT speed paints.
This year is more than portraits, this is full on Giant Monster destruction!
My work has never been better for this years series and I cannot wait to share them with you.
It is always great to get the feedback, support, and sheer joy from everyone. It is an energy I feed off of.
I paced myself this year so I would not find myself exhausted and burned out.
I also had to make sure that I could do any freelance work without distraction during those 13 nights.
On top of doing the work for 13 Nights 2012, I am also finding myself going back to older pieces and reworking them.
I am not sure if this is against the rules of being an artist. But I find a lot of my early paintings just don't hold up well when printed.

The image on the left is the original speed paint from 2010 13 Nights. On the right is the more polished re-paint. It really shows up better in print. It is important to me that the prints I make are of a level of quality that I would be happy to purchase. Sometimes I cannot see that quality until I see it blown up in print form.

Its a long process of trial and error. But the good news is that I reap the benefits by going back and revisiting some old work and getting a chance to put some real polish on it.

I am very close to making my 1st skateboard print run. But that will have to wait for another blog

I just need to stay focus and keep moving forward and don't stop

See you Friday for the 1st night of 13 Nights of Halloween 2012.

I hope to share some memories of my 1st 13 Nights of Halloween

Cheers