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

XSPen

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

XSPen

think this is a pretty accurate description of my frustration.

Forecast- Rain, again

Rain and early fog make for a gray painting.  This one started with lots of charcoal lines before any paint.

Rainy Morning

Storm’s Coming

I started this last summer.  I used silver Sharpie to highlight storm clouds,  but it bothered me.   I added more paint.

Storm’s Coming

Birth

Forty years ago I was pregnant.  Then I was a mother.  Thru ups and downs we’re both still here.

More paint is better

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.  

New stairs to gym

The Fines Creek Gym is more than eighty years old.  This summer the old broken concrete stairs were removed.  Photo from inside the gym.  Now they are replaced, thanks to sponsors.  The first step was sponsored by Donna Livengood, Gregg’s mom, in memory of his dad, Gale.