Unearthing Art
Hahaha—as I went to type the title to this post, I spied the following: unearthing!
Wordplay aside, I took myself on another art-excavation adventure here, kicking leaves and stones out of my way, scraping with sticks, shoveling up dirt and flinging it willy-nilly, damming and rerouting streams and rivulets, trampling undergrowth, and snapping low branches, all in service of fabricating a landscape in this quadrant of an original 14 x 17″ sheet of Bristol paper covered with a preliminary chaos layer.
I remembered to take one process photo that shows the 6.5 x 8.5″ quadrant with chaos layer, taped to a surface, ready for developing … a ‘before’ photo:
The ‘after’ photo, evidencing a flow of drips, spatters, scribbles, brush strokes, mark-making, and layers of revision:
6.5 x 8.5″; acrylic, ink, watercolor pencil, watercolor pastel, oil pastel,
and collage on Bristol paper
abstract landscape
2023
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13 responses to “Unearthing Art”
Ann! Hello! Thanks for your feedback—the process is an inviting one for me, with an appealing ratio of quick/loose/intuitive to slow-moving/refined/deliberate. Your appreciation of the blue-grey with the bright yellow/orange and the barren trees aligns with my own affinity for those elements : )
Have you been getting to your studio lately?
Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving also!
Sylvia, SO helpful to have your observations! I noticed frequent interference from internal naysaying as I worked, stopped every time I caught myself in that limiting loop, and elected to trust what my hand, heart, and eye seemed to be doing despite what my monkey mind was yammering about. And, yay!, your observations affirmed all those actions in which I’d placed my trust. Thank you!
Ann, I’m amused that your comment here about liking the painting on Dave’s dresser, which I think refers to my 4/1/25 post entitled “Shelfies,” somehow landed in this post from 11/18/23 instead!
Since your comment didn’t land in the 4/1/25 post I can’t respond from the 4/1/25 post either! In any case, thanks for letting me know you like that painting. Someone else today was also attracted to that painting.
If you’d like to see the history of that painting, go here. (I hope including a link in the comment window will gain you access … ).
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