Kapiti died many years ago and I lost track of that sheet of acrylic … until I did a round of deep decluttering a few weeks ago and rediscovered it! I had a grand time today using it as my palette to mix a color for the negative painting of this work in progress.
Oh my gosh, if Kapiti were alive now he would have an absolute field day in my studio—sitting on the ends of brushes for wild rides, walking across what I was painting, and chasing and pecking at brush bristles, all while narrating his activities in a chipper stream-of-consciousness monologue as I worked!
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| work in progress new layer: acrylic on paper |
8 comments:
Just think of all the foot prints Kapiti could have added to your paintings!
Exactly, Joje. Not only that but also all the footprints he would have left everywhere else, including my shoulder, after he walked across a painting-in-progress!
awwww what lovely memories! I am imagining what gorgeous markings little birdie feet would make on the paintings...
They'd be totally intuitive and spontaneous, that's fer sher : )
Am I remembering correctly that your dad had a bird?
More scratchy scritchy marks in your negative spaces and more of that lt green in the patches... just perfect..YAY Kapite!!!
Thank you, Carol.
Now I just need Kapiti to walk through some India ink and across this painting : )
LOL, foot prints. Teeny foot paint prints. There is some serious 3dness going on here. Or maybe it is just my eyes. Ha ha ha. LOVE the abundance of irregular marks, and the play of darks and lights :)
I'm really wishing for actual paint-dipped kapiti-footprints on this painting; I think they'd be awesome and COMPLETELY spontaneous.
Sheila, thanks once again for your attention to the visual language of my art; your feedback is welcome and illuminating.
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