chatter of the birds outside...
I'm leaving for NYC today. Ready to take lots of pictures and suck in lots of eye-candy...I need the inspiration right now. I have a show in about...er....3 weeks, and let's just say, I'm not quite ready. I finished 3 pieces and they were to be the beginning of a series of 7 and the....whoosh! distraction, blocks, getting a job (which i'm thankful for but what a speed-bump right in the middle of painting for a show). And now I have 5-7 pieces scattered around my little studio and the theme when from strong to....well, wish-washy to say the least.
So last week I went out into the backyard....birds and bugs and ants crawling all over me...the smell of sweet decomposing leaves and hot sun...a nice november day...and I painted. What came out was like nothing I've done before...using brayers and pallet knives and squeeges to spread and layer paint and carving into it....I want a week of these days to make more energetic playful paintings...
I realize that lately I have lost the child.....work and worrying about money and
weddings and dishes and trying to please everyone...
My best work has always come from those days when i just"was".
So...I'm gonna just "be" this weekend.
xox
book update: putting the pages in some kind of order. pulling things out from piles and lining them up to see whats missing...
in the meantime, have fun with this...
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