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-Landslide
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.
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
think this is a pretty accurate description of my frustration.
Distress, Distract, Woodpecker
Needless to say, this is about some different things.
Storm’s Coming
I started this last summer. I used silver Sharpie to highlight storm clouds, but it bothered me. I added more paint.
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. 
Progress on bluejay painting
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?
Progress on Blue Jay
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.
New Year, thank goodness!
I’m experimenting with Yupo paper, a polypropolene water media paper. Mine are 9″x12″. I used masking tape on the corner, to plywood. I’ll have white corners when I’m finished. May
be under a mat, or a feature ( when you’re hiding a mistake, call it a feature!) This has been an incredibly wet season, and part of our yard has slid down the mountain. What a big problem. So maybe that’s why this piece looks stormy and foreboding.
Map
This is the beginning of a painting on paper. Sometimes they are part of the process to a larger work. I feel like this is the map that’s governing my life and our govt. now. Chaotic, mindless, and just maybe, heading somewhere.
