Keeping Records Straight

It seems obvious now, now that I've poured over photos, digital images, and unrecorded work, that an artist should be constantly recording, filing, and perhaps destroying old work. I found duplication X 3 and then no records too. My choice could be to dump it all and start over or dump most and keep working. After trying out an online record keeping program, I decided, with the help of the Kansas City Artist Coalition, to keep just an actual copy of each painting in actual notebooks. Old info is sometimes hard to find, but if I have the painting, I can photograph it and write comments if necessary. I've been working on this project for 4 months. My work has been packed up, unpacked, packed, moved, stored, lost and found. It's a discovery of myself and how I've spent many hours of my life. It is the most personal of collections. The first painting in my "collection" is my city scape painted when I was a senior in High School. The painting got a Golden Key award in Seattle in 1956. I hope to get the work cleaned up and added to artbymariemason.com soon.