JJ Worden

Maker of Things. Painter of Faces.

Intentional Creation

A Work in Progress on the easel in my studio

Sometimes creating things go fast...the idea, the implementation, the completion. Other times? Like pulling teeth. It's just hard. The ideas are vague, dead-end paths abound and finishing seems to take forever.

Experiments in BIG gel plate printing

A Self-Portrait Gel Print

I received a new LARGE 16x20" Gelelf gel plate for Christmas, (Thanks Tom!) and HooBoy! it's a learning curve. So. Much. Space! All of  the works below are works in progress:

Toujours la meme chose

A page from my art sketch book questioning how I make art.

January 11, 2011

What does being so frittered ...in my art practice... do to my Art? If I limited my materials to only wire and objects, say or paint or a single substrate, how would that manifest? Would my work become more singular (read: boring) or would it become stronger?

Is this jack of all trades approach stopping me from mastering anything? 

The only way of knowing of course is to just focus on ONE thing and see.

And yet... just this morning as I entered the studio tying on my apron, my eyes flicked from wire/metal station to paint table to wax bench. Thinking what shall I do, what do I FEEL like doing today? Is there merit in NOT relearning a task, getting into that mindset and focusing only on the message?

Do I have the wherewithal to find out?