Once again the scientist in me needs to name, number, and analyze all the paintings. I completed the 2022 catalogue update, each painting is numbered and entered onto a spreadsheet with the name, size, type of paper, year, and owner. Most belong to me, but several go out as gifts or sales each year which I record too. The painting above is an abstract I did last year, and just found it in the pile while cataloguing. It intentionally contains a lot of neutral colours, I was probably cleaning the palette at the same time. Here is an updated graph with the last 5 years tally, the y axis shows the number of paintings, the x axis is the year:
The graph shows that I did 579 paintings in 2022 which is about 10 higher than 2021. There was obviously a big spike in my painting output due to the pandemic, I used to average about 50 paintings per year. The number of paintings doesn't really matter that much to me, in fact, the cartons full of paintings are starting to fill the closet up. One idea I had for this year was to actually lower the number of paintings, and to make them larger and with more detail. We will just see how things go, I have plenty of empty cartons left.
Here is an all time graph of the number of paintings per year. There are approximately 3900 in total since 1989!
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