Noticing #7

noticing:

• how curious I am about life stories as I meet people on Deer Isle

• how lost I feel of late about ‘my’ ‘painting life’

• how I tighten when I think about packing to leave

• how drawn I am to folks’ stories of decisions and dreams

• how lost I can get in the creative act of painting

detail, work in progress

detail

detail

detail

Noticing #6

noticing:

• the way ferocious rain and fierce wind are having their way with Deer Isle

• the way Meadow Cove cottage hugs us with cozy protection 

• the way Stu Kestenbaum knocked our socks off reading his poetry at the Opera House last night

• the way I fought with myself as I painted today

• the way Peter Beerits engages with found materials to make sculpture and malarkey at Nervous Nellie's Jams and Jellies 

in progress

detail

Noticing #5

noticing:

• breath in, breath out
• neap tide, ebb tide
• uphill, downhill
• grasp, release
• paralysis, boldness

detail, work in progress #1

detail, work in progress #1

work in progress #2

studio

Noticing #4

noticing:

• the music of rain drumming on our cottage roof
• grouchiness at the discomfort in my painting process this morning
• joy in purchasing real food at the local farmer's market
• how I come alive when I engage in curiosity
• internal arguments running round and round my mind

Noticing #3

noticing:

• alternating current—right brain, left brain, right, left, here, there
• my breath moving in and out
• beech leaves scribbling in a breeze
• the fun of intuitive mark-making with graphite crayon followed by intuitive partial erasures
• how much of the language i use when i speak—to others and to myself—reflects comparison, judgment, differences/differentiation, discernment, discrimination

detail, work in progress
16 x 20", mixed media on drawing paper
played with oil pastels found in our vacation cottage

detail, another start
also 16 x 20", mixed media on drawing paper

Noticing #2

noticing:

• my ambivalence about this start, and about posting it
• the background music of a foghorn 
• where I carry sadness and loss in my body
• the warmth of sunlight on my face, my shoulders
• that I can say So it is, yes, and thank you to runaway thoughts

detail, work in progress
18 x 24", mixed media on drawing paper
painted en plein air in morning sunlight

detail

detail

Noticing #1

noticing:

• how sunlight and shadow play on inches-deep moss and ferns in the Crockett Cove Woods Preserve

• how I want to be right when information is under dispute

• how I follow my own counsel and don’t argue

• how I’m pleased when my memory serves me and my information is correct

• how savory and satisfying my picnic lunch is

detail from a few minutes
 of starting to lay ground and color
on a large sheet of Canson drawing paper
on an exquisite sunny day in June