"The advice I like to give to young artists, or anybody who will listen really, is that inspiration is for amateurs.
The rest of us just get in there and do the work."

The internet will fill in the rest of that quote from Chuck Close once my personal part connects, but that bit is the point.

I don't know if I have any advice for young people these days, they have a vastly different world to take hold of than the easy one we lived in.

I have been writing the intro to this last group of stones, where I finally stopped that (shorter) madness, for four days.
It has gotten longer and shorter and changed again and again. The intro I mean.
And I have just cut it completely into a new document.

Because it wasn't about this work really, rather about steemit.
I am often guilty of casting my net too wide to be able to catch up people in my special world view.
It's probably not easy to get where I am coming from, and I have not practised my writing skills at all.
I had the whole mental block thing going on that front, and I am so thankful to steemit for being the catalyst for that transformation.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe I am a great writer. yet!
I would be foolish to think so, even though I love some of my stuff, I obviously have a long way to go.
Yet, I now believe I can be, once I put in the bum on seat hours.
Damn that sedentary tendency, I hate it, but my artwork is the same. Hours, in their tens or even in their hundreds, sitting right here right now, making marks on paper.

I should go back to being a performance artist.
daily crucifixions with dogs

or somethink

Anyhow, now I have no intro to the post that I have had on the go for days and days, the last of the series of five showing the anti-penultimate project before steemit came along and hooked me in.

And this new intro, that started being a non-intro is going in the same direction as the aforementioned previous intro

So maybe, I will just do a little song and dance about what follows.

this was going to be my saviour project, the one that would finally, slowly put me on the map.
I was literally calling this a trial run, and had rather specific, or, indeed, very specific plans for the actual project.
I really thought I would be able to do it, but I only made the halfway mark of the pre-project trial of thirty days.
and that, only by cheating and fudging.
As soon as that happened I had to abandon ship.

Here then, are the last group of three stones, and their respective texts from Saatchi, that were written on the day.

I haven't edited the texts from there, just a couple of typos that I caught after all this time.
Links to each work on saatchiart.com in title under the main image for the work

Day thirteen

scotty's stone daily 123, 6 mar 2017
Scott Hollingsworth
Spain
Painting
Size: 34 H x 24 W x 0.2 cm
Ships in a cardboard box

Painting: Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper and Cardboard.

I am not even sure what this mineral is. Maybe it's galena. Was given to me by one of my favourite couples who are no longer a couple.
Difficult to portray such a dark and yet shiny mineral with Schmincke May Green, one of my favourite opaque pigments in my life as an Abstract Pointlessist. But, of course, being opaque, it doesn't matter how many layers of it you pile on, it just doesn't get any darker. So very challenging, and I was so tired last night that I was almost on the nod, and had to put finishing it off till the morning.
My keyboard is dying so it is difficult and time consuming to write.
Schmincke May Green on acrylic gesso on coloured acid-free Art card. All archival materials but needs framing under glass for display.

Keywords: pppp, stone, bright green, sds, ssd, unpainting, cubic crystal mineral, Schmincke Aquarell , May Green

Subjects: Nature

Styles: Figurative, Fine Art, Conceptual, Documentary, Realism

Mediums: Watercolor, Acrylic

Day fourteen

scotty´s stone daily 124, 7 mar 2017 (1 hour version)
Scott Hollingsworth
Spain
Drawing
Size: 29.7 H x 21 W x 0.1 cm
Ships in a cardboard box

Drawing: Ballpoint Pen on Paper.

Thought about making today the day that it all comes to a halt, as real life gets in the way, but in the end decided to just change styles, and do a time limited version.
So today's drawing is a one hour drawing of a really beautiful stone that I have held off on doing so far as it seems so ambitious for my normal style, that I doubt I could do it in a day. I grabbed the black BiC biro and a sheet of heavy (110 gms) reproduction paper and with the limited time mindset, made up for the lack of results in the paint this day (for yesterday! I am badly out of sync)
I hope people don't mind the different result. Means that that's fourteen days done. What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabout. Or something.

Keywords: realism, pointlessism, stone, quick drawing, sds, ssd, pebble, black biro drawing

Subjects: Nature

Styles: Conceptual, Realism, Figurative, Fine Art, Documentary

Mediums: Ballpoint Pen

Day fifteen

scotty's stone daily 125, 10mar 2017 two days late
Scott Hollingsworth
Spain
Painting
Size: 34 H x 24 W x 0.2 cm
Ships in a cardboard box

Painting: Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper and Cardboard.

well, admitting defeat on the daily painting project. ¡hasta aquí hemos llegado!
With this insane lifestyle of mine this daily project is not actually possible. I feared as much from the start and did the necessary insanity for the first bit, but I am not young enough to keep that up permanently. And even with that, my dogs have conspired with enough human and real world situations and problems to make it obvious enough, even to me, that I must throw my arms up in surrender. It was too restricting too, meaning I had to keep choosing little tiny stones in an attempt to keep the time under control.
And this last (and least) just resisted for two days and still resists.
Such is life, as a greater man than I once said.

Keywords: ppp, rock, shadow, stone, golden ochre, sds, ssd, ocre oro, pebble, Titan Bizancio

Subjects: Nature

Styles: Figurative, Fine Art, Documentary, Conceptual, Realism

Mediums: Watercolor, Acrylic

I haven't mentioned here, but you have seen in the texts, that the keyboard that I had been using since 2004 was on the fritz, or however one says such a thing these days.
I am writing these words on a new dirt cheap chinese keyboard, that was an amazing price and had fifteen five star reviews on amazon.es, but it has it's faults.

I should write a post just about my keyboard.
it'd be a doozy, let me tell you.

Anyhow, a few last things.
I set this up over the previous four posts (five in the end, with the artist statement) posts, linked under these words. And previous works of a similar nature can be seen at the linked page, sticks and stones on my website. These works are there too, all my failures on on display.

I have already posted an artist's statement for the SSD stone works, that's the newer works.

and the first three in the series
and the next three in the series, four to six
and the next three, numbers seven to nine
and the last post before this last post

To paraphrase the great Robert Hughes; What do you prefer? Art that tries to confront the world as it really is and fails, or art that tries to please, and succeeds?

I am not that pure either, I am not permitted that luxury.
I try to please all the time too, what else can I do?
I need to sell artwork or sooner than eventually, die, whether literally, or only metaphorically.
I would not have survived up till this point without my dear old dad, and @menoslobos
There are a couple of others too, that have helped me continue against the indifference of the world to my existence as an artist.
The typical artists lament, and it'll only become worth retelling the whole story if I make it.

Cause it's a good tale.

Not as if I was hiding myself away.

but anyway, I make work that is usually attractive to the eye but they are always trojan horses, and there is still a cellular memory of that treachery in our genes.

People resist.
I have seen a woman protect herself with the holy crucifix after being confronted with a wall of my colourful pattern abstractions.
Other people walk by as if it wasn't there, but whatcha gunna do?

A few fotos from village art show, back in 2013, my first summer in this village. I took half the main room, 'cause nobody else seemed to want too much.'

all fotos by @spaingaroo

In that last photo you can see framed pebble drawings to the right, hung on the pillars between the windows

Oh, and special bonus, anyone who made it to here.
The full Chuck Close quote

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”
Chuck Close
source

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If anyone would like to see an extensive, although unfortunately by no means complete, collection of SpaiNgaroo artworks, they can visit my main domain

There is some work for sale at Saatchi online gallery
and a Redbubble print on demand shop
and a fabric and wallpaper shop on Spoonflower too although many of the designs are still not available for sale.
sorry

Blame it on the sunshine,
blame it on the moonlight,
blame it on the good times,
now blame it on the steemit.

video bicho hmmm... sometimes
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tomorrow.
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