When I paint, I think I furnish not eternity but right-now. At least sometimes. Often enough, in any case, to bring me back to my studio day after day.
Giffels, telling the story of using a router outfitted with a tongue-in-groove bit to shape the edge of a long pine board, gives words to what I think of as the now of painting: An hour passed, then another. Eventually, I became one with the process, a transformation I've always savored. First one enters the work, then the work enters oneself.
First I enter the work, then the work enters me. I am grateful each and every time the work enters me.
There has already been much back and forth with my patch in progress below. I enter the work, the work enters me, I enter the work, the work enters me.
Gonna let it "chill" overnight and see what I think tomorrow.
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History thus far:
8 comments:
Love the progression photos! Furnish interesting word, in a house it's decorating,embellishing,with painting it's the act of giving something to the viewer and of course to oneself. Starting is the hard part but once there it's pure magic. I love when I get into the process, actually that could be like a drug. I don't like to put what I call realistic themes to mixes of shapes lines or patterns, but with this exception cheese cake with blueberries!
I am always grateful for your posts. Your thoughts, the process pics and then the KABLAM! beautiful patches unfolding....
Cheesecake with blueberries! Perfect!
Thanks, as always for your comments, Carol. Glad you enjoy the progression photos, and I appreciate your discussion of the word 'furnish.'
KABLAM! Thanks, Jen. I have been on the go every minute of the 6 hours of this unfolding day thus far, and now I am anchored momentarily at home—in my house and on my blog. So glad you live in my day-to-day 'neighborhood.'
Thanks for the progression pics - so interesting - l would love to be hanging over your shoulder watching it all unfold. Gorgeous, rich colour!!
I never get tired of seeing process so I often photograph it for myself—and my followers : )
Funny, *I'd* like to be hanging over my shoulder watching, too!
Thanks for sharing the process Dotty. So fun. Your heart is in everything you do. Just love the blue "berry" flowers :)
Always happy to share process—except now I'm seeing those blue 'berry' flowers again, which I loved, and which kinda disappeared in the process eventually. Perhaps they'll pop up again somewhere.
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