October 26, 2023
This Little Light of Mine
Instagram fed me a suggested reel by rebelunicorncrafts that caught my eye because I thought granddaughter Emmy and I might have a go at the idea. We didn’t have time, but I bumped into the link again at home and thought, I’ll have a go at it on my own!
What looked user friendly in the IG reel challenged me more than I’d anticipated it would but I loved playing with negative space, working from light to dark, and fussing with the paper I’d chosen which received subsequent paint layers very unevenly and unpredictably. Once I’d finished “copying like an artist” to the extent I was able, my painting looked a little too—not sure what word I want—tight? earnest? boring?
A light bulb went on in my head—I remembered a Louise Fletcher reel I’d seen in which she said of a sketch she was drawing that it was boring, she wanted to disrupt it. I confess I gasped when she then went on to start erasing bits of her excellent rendering and drawing over parts of it with orange pastel marks. However, in a flash, my shock at her disruption gave way to a huge grin. Awesome! *I* want to do that!
So I started finger painting, scribbling with India ink and posca pens, erasing areas with Murphy’s Oil Soap and a soft cloth, and adding asemic writing. Way fun! By shining this little light of mine (as the song goes), I let three jack o’ lanterns shine little lights of theirs.
7 x 10″; acrylic, pencil, India ink, and Posca markers on paper
holiday scape
2023
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9 responses to “This Little Light of Mine”
Sylvia, thanks for feedback. This was one of those one-off try-anything type exploration pieces. I was surprised and pleased by how it invited me to put many things learned over the years into play and ‘forced’ me to learn several new things. I’m going to mount it on matte board and prop it on a stand on our small front entry console table—all of which is WAY more than I usually do for Hallowe’en!!
It IS! It has continued to please me every time I pass by it as I go through our front entry space. I’ll keep it there for a few more days as deep autumn settles in; perhaps I’ll use Veteran’s Day as a marker and swap that painting out for another. Hmm, perhaps I’ll PAINT another something for that display space!
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Sounds like a plan, Dotty! It makes me smile as well!
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