Acrylics

At night, my very vivid dreams fuel the projects I have in my mind. I remember working on a piece of clay, all night, to make a sculpture… in my dreams. I woke up and ran to make the lady of my dreams before I would forget her. Too bad I didn’t even make a picture of her, as she sold immediately. So you see, I really am working all day and night.

I could be doing this forever without selling a thing. But don’t get me wrong, I do want to sell all of my art pieces. But if I didn’t sell them, would this whole urge to make art be worth it? Yes! Sustainable? No! My basement can only hold so many pieces.

Being a sustainable artist means that you will also be a business woman, a marketer, a salesperson, a writer, an accountant, an archivist, etc. I’ve been making short funny videos lately, how about adding musician to the mix?

(The painting above is available at the gallery Kunstraum Hopfgarten from Peter Ainberger. If you are interested in other paintings you see on my Instagram feed or my website, please contact me at art@atamayka.com)

Is there anything left of our new year‘s resolutions now that January is over?
I finished this acrylic painting as well as the one below in January 2017, a few days ago; in a time where most of us look at the year we left behind and also look forward to new projects.

The “Let me get the bird part right” painting above, is a bit of me laughing at myself, at this human tendency to tackle things that are not so important instead of directing our efforts to the actual task at hand. Have you found yourself doing so?
I surely have. I started making daily drawings in Instagram in August 2016, but I didn’t touch the app until after I made a mini course about it, read interviews, spoke to some people about it, read a manual… ***laugh*** That’s me, afraid of social media. But you see, I didn’t even touch Instagram that whole year until I had done everything else.

In my country you say: You have to take the bull by the horns. I try to remember that when I want to tackle what’s essential.

With “Punch it out” I ask myself:
“To inform myself and find understanding or to react in blind fear?”
This is something we’re seeing so often nowadays in the world, fighting violence with violence and hate with hate. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said: