Kickin’ Back a Bit
Without a conscious decision, I surprise myself by taking the final start for my current series to my paper trimmer and cutting it in half.
Oh!
I decide not to ‘work’ the first half as much as earlier pieces but rather to give the background a chance to reveal itself as landscape on its own—or not. I am fascinated by the way ‘trees’ created by dripping paint down a page over a chaos layer can set the mind to discerning landscape elements that were not previously perceived as such.
4 x 7″; acrylic, ink, watercolor pastel, and watercolor pencil
on Bristol paper
abstract landscape
2023
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7 responses to “Kickin’ Back a Bit”
MaryAnn, thanks so much for cheering me along. I’m pleased to be on a roll—I learn so much when I work on a series and/or multiple iterations of a particular inquiry, but I don’t always sustain the forward motion.
The drippy trees have been a challenge b/c I haven’t yet got the hang of generating the kind of drippy paint needed for the job. I’ve taken to mixing up soupy paint in a bottle with a dropper, and I use the dropper to get my trees going : )
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Simone, thank you for commenting. Although you thought you had not been able to log in, your comment did indeed appear at my blog and I was notified by email. If you hadn’t told me you’d had difficulty, I wouldn’t have known.
The design/composition of the small detail at the top! I’m happy to hear that you like it! I’m always grateful for feedback : )
I’m intrigued to hear this, Sheila. For me, each time I return to this piece I feel as though I’m standing on a ridge of some sort, looking ‘down-a-floor’ at a scene below me wondering if the trail I’m on will take me there.
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