Ideas for Paintings

Here are some ideas for painting:

1) have a whole show of just ideas written on paper or something yet to be determined with maybe a quick little sketch of the idea. I got this idea about ideas I think from seeing that Robert Smithson sketch of his idea to have a floating island going around Manhattan pulled by a tugboat. Somebody actually did the idea, but the little sketch itself I thought was great and there's always a ton of little idea sketches you could choose from.

It might be good to get idea sketches from lots of different people and combine them in a show.

2) A woman with a halo of hatchets and hearts. I think I got this idea partly from my friend Chris who drew this great halo in his sketchbook with all these different things....I think sometimes an idea percolates and your brain combines one thing with another and eventually Voila! you have an idea to work on.

I worry sometimes that I steal ideas from other sources and I've just forgotten about it. There's this one idea I've had for a woman with a halo that reads Trouble Trouble Trouble going around in a circle that I think I've seen somewhere. At least the part connecting Woman with Trouble, maybe not the halo part.

3) I've had this idea for awhile of a bunch of faces in a long skinny watercolor, with an accompanying long skinny watercolor that has a story about each that kinda meanders around and mingles with the other stories. Also, an idea about a baseball team, kind of treated similarly. The logistics of this though have confounded me to this point.

4) A painting of a rock and roll band. You know, I've never really seen something like that so I thought it might be good. I've tried this idea before though and it always looks good at first but then when there's more detail it starts to lose energy. I might be a better painter now than I was before though, I might be able to pull it off. Either that or stop a lot earlier than I normally do.

5) a print of this sketch I did of the coffee at Les Schwab. I think it's about time to start doing some printing again, I've got a couple of other ideas about that too...