Process! #2
Second step: drip lines of paint across the canvas. 
I have yet to find my stride with drips, truth be told; I don’t know why they challenge me. But I get into the anything-goes spirit of Amanda and improvise my way to some partly-dripped, partly-dragged, partly-painted-with-a-different-brush lines.
Next up: think in present tense about the coming year and write in “absolutes” what you can do to help yourself, help loved ones, and help strangers. Then, begin the process of abstracting your canvas with splatters.
I like using Amanda’s prompt to put words to the images that pop up in my imagination when I think about what might be different a year from now vis à vis growth in myself (I am the queen of magnificent drips) and what I might offer to loved ones and strangers in 2025.
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13 responses to “Process! #2”
Oh how I love where this partly-finished painting is going! Amanda’s drip challenge turned on its side with quintessential “Dotty writing” is making it all come together! You are becoming the queen of process and layering….and I’m enjoying following along.
I need to take notes…because I don’t do this very well.
We have family coming and going for a week beginning tomorrow, and having Amanda at hand to focus and lead me with a new year creative exercise feels just right. I delight in the external direction provided and delight in the internal interpretation of the direction. Thanks for following along so appreciatively, MaryAnn!
Thanks, Sheila. This is a lovely early-January creative exercise. Making changes as I go through the process opens me to all the change that will take place in 2025.
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Oh, I do hope you’ll do this exercise. Even being only partway through, I have felt its lovely impact. Many Simple Pleasures and Gratitudes. The color palette makes me chuckle a bit, as I “chose” it by going with the color that was already on the canvas from who knows when plus an intention to use up paints from a previous project, waiting on stay-wet palette paper for a chance to contribute.
For my message writing, I took note of Amanda’s recommending that this exercise be done not in a group setting but instead be a time of private reflection. Because I knew I wanted to post the process, which would include my “journaling” on my canvas, I opted to write out my thoughts and then write on top of them to allow for both privacy and blogging : )
Thanks for your comments, Roseanne. They give me another chance to reflect on the process and on the reflections embedded in the work itself.
I’m having fun looking back at this busy, busy, busy-ness after two months : )
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