Studio Update

Making these flowers has been such fun, but I know that these a just a diversion while my heart and mind continue their dialogue about clay versus paints. It's ongoing.

Loads of Fun

I mean it! I had loads of fun today. I've reorganized my studio so I can swing around from pencils to paint and back again. I just have to remind myself to dress accordingly. With the pencils you can wear anything and only get smudges on your hands, but with the paint...well, it's hello bag lady. I'm glad no one rang my doorbell today.

'Leslie's Peppers' are done except for minor improvements. So I turned to my paint and got some things going on a sort of abstract landscape. It might get more abstract as we go along, but I hate to use that word to describe my paintings. I don't really know what they are, but I sure have fun painting them. I'm going to get a few finished and enter a show and find a gallery for them. So, while my layers of glazing were drying I swung back around and started work on a floral, which I have never done before. And I'm not even a fan of floral art work, but this is a photo I took last year in my front yard, and the colors are lucious. I hope I can replicate them with the pencils.

La Luna

Today I was out there! I was splashing paint all over and having the best time. Well, actually,it didn't even seem like time was passing, I was in another zone, which is how I always feel when I'm creating. I didn't get much work done this week, but I'm going to make up for it this weekend.
I'm almost done with 'Clementines, My Darling'. The other night I had sprayed it with fixitive and I was holding it against my body as I talked to Kim....and then....horror of horrors....I realized the orange from the clementines wasn't fixed at all, but had rubbed all over my shirt and all over the beautiful white cloth in the picture. I almost have it fixed, but it will never be back to what I'd like. Well, we all learn from our mistakes.
So...this morning I woke up and knew I had to paint moths flying to the moon. Don't ask me why! It was completely random, but I've started it. It looks more luminous in person. And do I know what a moth looks like? No! So I did a little research and found one that would show up well in my painting, but when I had it half done I decided I would create my own moth. So there.