Saddled Up
I saddled up my horse and got out in God’s country again this afternoon. Look where I went under wide open skies!
don’t-stop-to-think-keep-moving-walk-away-in-minutes sketches;
acrylic, high-flow acrylic, and India ink;
eye dropper, palette knife, fine line applicator, texture sheet,
water brush, and pen.
These sketches are just magical for me! I tape off spaces on a sketchbook page, give my horse rein and a spur in the side, and gallop full speed into intuitive creating. The whole ride is over in minutes. I let the horse find its way, so to speak. Then I look back over the beautiful terrain that has appeared seemingly out of thin air. While my horse is cooling down, I add a touch of asemic writing and some hatch marks.
Done.
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12 responses to “Saddled Up”
Roseann, thanks. I am so enjoying the surprises and beauty of these little intuitive studies, and so enjoying going back in for a few minutes of making marks and writing asemic ‘messages.’ Your mention of an asemic alphabet sparks me to think of actually creating a reference collection of invented asemic characters for myself. They are unexpectedly challenging to create in the moment.
Yes, I work on all four ‘at a go,’ for example using an eye-dropper to put India ink into each space, then returning to each to use a water brush to wick the ink and move it around, next maybe applying some white to each square with a matte knife, and so on. Each square evolves and informs me in different ways but together they are related as part of the same process in a jointly shared time frame and sketchbook page.
Thanks, Sheila. I do feel the magical quality of the process here each time I revisit this page of quick little intuitive sketches. Glad the magic is palpable to you as well : )
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