Eyes show pain

I tap into my pain as a way to get rid of it.  Let it go.  Here are two works, done ten years apart.

Re-emergence continues

Trying to capture or glimpse a bit of my life, which took an unpleasant turn this week.  I removed the block at the top of the ladder, and added more bent rungs.  The fog is still too blue, I think.  I have found Zinc White is more subtle than Titanium.  But do I need subtle, or bold?

Re-emergence

I’ve been working on this large canvas for awhile.  46”x54”.  I’ve been thru a lot of illness and pain for the last 6 years, and now I am better.  I could tell you many things that are in here, but if explanation is necessary, I have not made a painting, yet.

Re-emergence

Climate Concern series- Melting

This series is exploring Yupo, a polypropelyne paper, that loves water.    Since we’ve had double normal rainfall so far this year, it’s fitting to explore very wet paint, and monoprints.  This is an off axis print, with more paint and pastels.

Another one of the prints

Yupo seems good for monoprints.  I did this series on problems from climate change.  This one is called Consequences.

of climate change

Monoprints on Climate Change

Yupo is fun to work with.  I made three prints off the original, and then painted back into them.

Climate Change- Blight

  Two pcs. are translucent and two are white.  I love the translucent ones held up to the light, but haven’t quite figured how to do that display.  Anyway, the first received my wrath,  I really laid into it, since I can’t affect who is annoying me.  There was so much paint that it was oozy.  Ever the miser, I tried my first monoprint, tho I guess technically they are tri_prints.

Feel the Breath

I’m learning meditation.  I have seen benefits, but I still have a long way to go!

Feel the Breath

Lxii9-Landslide

Our front yard has slid, been repaired, and is sliding again.  And of course it’s raining!  This canvas is about not having control.  There are bits of charcoal embedded in the paint. 

Lxii9

I like Yupo

This is used mostly for watercolors.  I use acrylics.  Then I abuse it, spraying with water and scraping.  I am not a fussy painter, and this stuff seems to want to play.

Blue Glasses