Painting as I see it.
This is a self portrait on an experimental ground. I added bits of charcoal. I was annoyed with the lack of maintenance on the building that my studio is in. Thank goodness, the toiIets work again. I
think this is a pretty accurate description of my frustration.
Rain and early fog make for a gray painting. This one started with lots of charcoal lines before any paint.
Needless to say, this is about some different things.
I started this last summer. I used silver Sharpie to highlight storm clouds, but it bothered me. I added more paint.
Forty years ago I was pregnant. Then I was a mother. Thru ups and downs we’re both still here.
This is a large canvas, 46″x54″. I keep working on it. Reemergence… Forrest doesn’t think it’s a word, but they make things up in crosswords, so I can too. My new agenda for judging a work of art is an acronym that I picked up. ICU for intensity, complexity and unity. 
The balance between painting and representation is hard for me. Representation doesn’t take as much time and attention, because I have a camera and I’m pretty good at copying. But that isn’t what I want to do. Have you seen a bluejay in the woods? Only a camera can capture every feather, but is that why you were walking in the woods?
Thanks Jill. The note says to use these in my art, maybe collage. It’s almost Feb. but I felt like Christmas!
I’m going to have to give up on gessoed paper. It buckles too much, and I’m putting more energy into it. I think I’ll work on unstretched canvas. I’ve done that, before, but not for a while. Anyway, this is todays painting progress.
Donna gave me a bunch of bird magazines. The photos of the bluejays caught my eye. But we seldom see bluejays. From drawing to painting, this is not a bluejay.
