Ongoing Shifting of Gears / March 18, 2024

 March 18, 2024

Ongoing Shifting of Gears

Below, a bit of the art history of a single gessobord panel—first in 2015, then sometime between 2015 and 2024, and finally in just the past few days in 2024.

Singing at Singing
6 x 6″; acrylic on gessobord
skyscape
2015

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a paint-and-collage-over of Singing at Singing several years ago,
sometime between 2015 and 2024

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Over the past few days:

It Occurs to Him That He Thought He Would Always Be … Oh, Thirty-Two
6 x 6″; acrylic, ink, and collage on gessobord
birthday card
2024

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   imajenationgmailcom

   March 18, 2024 at 1:14 pm

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   it’s like seeing a person grow wiser and more beautiful and more layered over the years. Extraordinary!

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      Dotty Seiter

      March 18, 2024 at 1:38 pm

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      Well, shucks, Lola! Thanks! What a great take on this little adventuring gessobord : )

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   Ann

   March 18, 2024 at 1:44 pm

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   Dotty, I very much appreciate your process and how you take what you have tried at one time and incorporating those ideas into a current work. I like the limited palette in the last piece and really like the blue you have used as a background. Your work ethic is admirable.

   Ann

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      Dotty Seiter

      March 18, 2024 at 1:49 pm

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      Ann, what fun to have you pop up here today! Thanks for your feedback—and your vote of appreciation for my process and my limited palette here. Painting offers ready access to lifelong learning, and lifelong learning energizes me.

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   Sheila Marie Delgado

   March 18, 2024 at 7:10 pm

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   So fun! I couldn’t stop looking! So many fun little bits! 

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      Dotty Seiter

      March 19, 2024 at 5:23 am

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      Sheila, glad the fun little bits call you in for a look. And another look!

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   Joyful Puttering

   March 18, 2024 at 9:33 pm

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   Oh my goodness….I don’t think I could love this final piece more! I love every little dot and doodle! And it’s the journey over all those years that makes it so special. 

   Way to shift gears!!! 

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   roseanne333

   March 19, 2024 at 5:29 am

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   Well, boy-howdy! (Phrase referenced from Cold Sassy Tree, one of my favorite novels.) Do I see Happy Birthday in there? Here’s what I love and what strikes me: it’s water, with all flow and movement, with those gorgeous shades of aqua/green/teal. The white lines seem like waves and the colored orbs are shiny gemstones and colorful fish. There’s so much watery depth because of the texture from the substrate. J’adore all the scratchings and your asemic alphabet.

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      Dotty Seiter

      March 19, 2024 at 5:42 am

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      1. Love the boy-howdy! exclamation, and loved Cold Sassy Tree; I’m right now adding it to my book list for a reread.
      2. You DO see Happy Birthday in there! Did you spy ‘seventy-five’ and ‘adventure on!’
      3. Thank you for the fabulous feedback re water, flow, movement, waves, gemstones, fish, and texture from the layers and substrate.
      4. I trust you saw the places where I appropriated some rows of thin black lines like the ones in the piece of yours you shared recently.

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   Dotty Seiter

   March 19, 2024 at 5:30 am

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   I’m grateful that I was able to finesse the shift when, at one point, I felt ‘stuck.’

   I had fun using asemic writing to hide messages of ‘happy birthday,’ ‘seventy-five,’ and ‘adventure on!’ in this birthday card for Dave : )

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   Simone

   March 19, 2024 at 9:45 am

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   Lovely, the history of a piece of gessoboard! I love to see the development!

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      Dotty Seiter

      March 19, 2024 at 10:23 am

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      Thank you! Fun for me, too, to see the history and development. Especially satisfying was when I got to and engaged with the editing process and saw the light I’d imagined for this piece evolve into existence : )