Process!
It’s time for a process post here at dotty seiter: now playing.
I’m on artist Amanda Evanston’s mailing list and, as part of a New Year’s Day email, she included the link to a creative exercise she’s done for several years, usually sometime early in January.
I’m in the process of following the steps she suggests, adapting them, as she encourages, to fit my personal modus operandi and the materials and supplies I have at hand.
First step: “unwhite” a substrate. I grab a 12 x 14″ canvas from a counter top in my studio. I think I prepped it (who knows when) for some project I had in mind (who knows what) but there it is ready and waiting and already unwhite.
Already unwhite but, in my estimation, not satisfyingly unwhite enough. I grab an artificial flower prop (thank you for that gift, Sylvia!) to use as a visual reference for loose interpretation
and decide to use already mixed colors stored on improvised stay-wet paper palettes (thank you for sending some of your dried-up oil-paint palettes my way, Lola!) leftover from my December bookmaking joy.
Yup, having fun.
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8 responses to “Process!”
LOL … precisely, Lola: “even if ultimately it ends up some version of white again!”
For sure, as you well know from your own painting with requisite hundreds of layers, the preliminary unwhiting will get superimposed with more and more paint, a fact that in no way diminishes the fun or beauty or spring color choices strutting on the canvas at this juncture : )
Looking back now at this underlayer after a couple of months, I’m struck again by how evocative it is of wallpaper I associate with the house my grandmother Chase lived in when I was a young child. Thanks for cheering for process, Carol!
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