100 Drawings Update

I started 100 Drawings two weeks ago and since then, I have made 30 drawings. When I started I wasn't sure what form this project was going to take. I have mailed away many of my first 20 drawings, and this week, I started working on a standard 9"x12" watercolor paper. I bought a stack of 100 sheets, and am going to fill all of them. I have made 10 drawings this week. Here are a few and the remaining 10 are on my website: http://aimeebelanger.com/section/271082_100_Drawings.html

Ira Glass: This is really important

Someone posted this on Facebook today and I had to share it. It's a wonderful quote by Ira Glass (a personal hero of mine) about being a young artist.

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This is very real for me- I wonder why the things that I like are so much better-more interesting, engaging, dynamic- than the things I make. If I wasn't me and I saw my work would I even like it? Would I even care to look? There have been times when I have stopped making things altogether because I didn't think that what I was doing was intelligent or beautiful or original enough.

That is what 100 drawings is about. Just making stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. Thanks, Ira.

Flux Feature

The curatorial crew at Flux has decided to feature my studio and me on their blog! Check out my studio, recent work, and Distillery friends here: http://flux-boston.com/?p=3418

Cheers to Liz for the nod!

100

100 drawings by December 31, 2011
Buildings and people and landscapes.
People as landscapes.
Buildings as portraits.
Time. Starts. Now.

Richard Serra

Richard Serra, walnut ink and pen on paper, 7"x10", 10/31/2011