meditation - work in progress #1

18x36", acrylic on canvas

when every part of you wants to turn around

8x8", acrylic on cradled wood panel

blueberries

6x6" acrylic on linen

 

blueberries - work in progress

6x6", acrylic on linen

no berries...yet.  :-)  

recalibration

6x6", acrylic on cradled wood panel

sold

i'm in transition.  the old routes feel limiting, but the new ones don't exist yet.  experimentation with looseness feels like i don't care.  tightness feels (and appears to me) like tightness.  someone said to me "your paintings seem lighter lately" and i thought to myself yes, if lighter equals shallow...the real deal is festering, glowing, surfacing, but i haven't been able to get a real glimpse of it yet.

so i paint.  at least it isn't paralyzing me, which has happened before.  this time it's as if i need to push through it - show up, as they say, and just move the brush.  exercise.  no weighty commitment in every piece, no analysis of "is it done?".  just paint...and wait for the water to clear.

thanks for coming along for the ride.

checked out again

6x8" acrylic on cradled wood panel

the crash

6x8", acrylic on wood panel

sold

waterlily study

4x6", mixed media on paper

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