Still Poking Around / November 25, 2023

 November 25, 2023

Still Poking Around

In early June I painted a 14 x 17″ chaos-layer start and cut it into quadrants with the intention of developing each piece with neurographic linework while on vacation.

The vacation got waylaid by smoke from Canadian wildfires. The painting starts got waylaid when I felt stumped each time I picked one up hoping to give it a go.

A month ago I experimented with one of them, telling myself to make a few marks and see what evolved. What evolved didn’t please my eye at any stage of the process. I eventually cut the piece into bookmarks. They didn’t please my eye either.

Today I decided to poke around a bit more with the dripped-paint trees series I’ve worked on for the past 10 days, this time cutting in half and using chaos-layer quadrant #2 from June.

chaos-layer quadrant #2

No Finer Doorway into the Truth
4 x 6″; acrylic, ink, and watercolor crayon on paper
abstract landscape
2023

Into the Arms of Now
4 x 6″; acrylic and ink on paper
abstract landscape
2023

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   Joyful Puttering

   November 26, 2023 at 8:13 am

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   Pretty soon you’re going to have a whole forest of these dripped trees. It’s amazing what can come out of chaos! I’m enjoying watching you “poke around!”

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      Dotty Seiter

      November 26, 2023 at 10:49 am

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      Thanks once again for coming along for the ride, MaryAnn. I take great delight in and enjoy the support of your comments : )

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   Simone

   November 27, 2023 at 8:33 am

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   Wonderful that after all this time waiting in the dark with this specific painting, a spark of creativity lit up, and you got in the flow again!

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      Dotty Seiter

      November 27, 2023 at 8:43 am

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      Simone, yes! I’m grateful to have quite a bit of lived experience with my art’s telling me ‘everything in good time.’ : )