Demetrios Papakostas: Summertime and the living is easy

Demetrios Papakostas: Summertime and the living is easy

Summertime and the living is easy

WOW!!!!

Another hot muggy day here in Montreal. The weather lately has been "swamp like!" lots of humidity, downpours and heat. I'm surprised I haven't found any alligators in my backyard.

It's pretty hard getting to the studio these days and staying focused. I find that wether it's the weather or even that your ideas have come to a dead stop, you have to keep going.

Get to the studio! Work on anything! Take out some older work or work that you've discarded and see if you can re-compose it or even use it with something else. Often times, I'll just keep painting with no particular direction or intent, until another idea hits me, and that usually turns into something positive. Work on small pieces, do some collages.

Just keep working and before you know it, the days will get cooler and the ideas will flow once again.

The Pleasure of Painting

Just sat down after a glorious day of painting at my studio. What in life may I ask, is better than being at the studio, putting paint on your brush and just painting. There are worst things in life I'm sure but this isn't one of them. Even if I wasn't a painter, just thinking and trying to create something out of virtually nothing, is for me, pure pleasure.

I guess it's my creative soul that keeps coming to the surface, wether it was playing drums during my early years, or painting now, the creative juices need to flow for me. So keep those creative juices and ideas flowing my friends. Create for life!!!!

Personal: Friends and 50th. Birthdays

It's Sunday early afternoon. Last night I went to my old friend's 50th. Birthday celebration. We hadn't seen each other for about ten years and it was great getting together with him and the old gang. It didn't take us long to get reacquainted. It took us about 10 seconds of trying to recognize each other as some of us got balder or fatter, but it was as if we'd never been apart. I guess with old friends, things are that way.
When you've know each other for so long and you've been through so much together, the feelings of closeness and love for each other never really go away. Sure we are closer to some friends than others and I wonder why we grew apart in the first place but I guess life happens and before you know it, you're running to the doctor for your kids or there's a function at school or any number of everyday issues that somehow seem more important. Friends do sometimes take a back seat to family, but for me they are and always will be my friends. At the end of the night, we vowed to get together at least once a month and keep in touch more often...hopefully it won't be in another ten years.

Toronto Artist Project

Just got back from Toronto a couple of hours ago. I was there for the Artist Project. It was an exhibition/show/art sale, put on for artists to showcase their work and hopefully sell some works as well. The art was great and I got a chance to meet many of the artists, exchanging ideas and just wanting to know about their art. Being an artist is something that few people can understand. Talking to the artists, one can get a sense of the struggle, hard work and dedication it takes everyday to do what they do and stay true to their work. I even got some good ideas that I want to try the moment I get to the studio. All in all they were a great sorce of inspiration to me and now I have to transfer my new found energy into my artwork and in my life as an artist.

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