Panel Persistence
Today I completed a painting on the third 5 x 7″ panel given to me by Lola Jovan.
I had found my way to what was likely to be a halfway point with this painting when the shiny sparkle of a different idea captured my attention, and I thought about rotating the panel and repainting its entire surface with an overcoat that could be the undercoat for my fresh new vision.
But.
I had set the panel about six feet from the desk where I was working at some task. Next time I looked up from that distance and took in my not-yet-painted-over work-in-progress, it called to me, Come play some more! See where you can take me before you cover me up!
So I did.
5 x 7″; oil, latex, acrylic, and India ink
on extra fine titanium oil-primed linen on panel
landscape
2025
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12 responses to “Panel Persistence”
Dotty. Dotty! J’aime beaucoup cette pièce. I mean it.
It’s like you made a u-turn onto a road less traveled (pardon my interpretation, RF) and landed in a beautiful vista. I love to open a piece as wide as I can and explore all the textual bits and there’s so much here.This was evocative for me on another level. When I was of elementary school age, my grandparents had a very wide and deep field of daffodils and jonquils that were so beautiful, people driving by would sometimes stop and get out of their cars to admire them.
Roseanne, thank you for your robust feedback here. Your comments take me on a welcome retrospective walk through my own painting process—through the textural elements that came on the panel from Lola and informed my subsequent adventures on the same panel, through decisions about the daffies and jonquils I planted here, and back up to the crest of the path to see what I can see.
You’ve lifted me up on a drizzly gray morning beset with challenging clerical tasks; so grateful for the light and joy you brought into my day!
What a marvellous landscape! I feel like singing…
Simone, thank you for stopping by to share your response to my ‘marvelous landscape’—I always feel like singing when we talk art with each other : )
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