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Friday, December 17, 2021

Motion, or Action?

I recently shook my feathers from head to tip of tail just enough to loosen up the inner gumption to subscribe to mailings from copywriter Meg Peery <megpeery.com>.

She promptly rattled my cage (am I mixing metaphors? maintaining one? doesn't matter) with a discussion of motion vs. action. 

If I stop now to examine metaphors—feathers, cage—or explain the difference between motion and action, I'll be in motion but not taking the action that aligns with my inner inklings.

I need to take the action of posting to my blog for the first time in weeks to document the first time I've picked up a paintbrush in my studio in months.

Studio as repository for all manner of items related to renovations going on elsewhere in my home:



Action taken just now:

grabbed a page of quality paper
from an old calendar,
grabbed a paintbrush (marketed as a makeup brush),
grabbed a jar of black gesso,
painted gesso onto paper:
ACTION







Thursday, October 15, 2020

NY (5)

Sometimes a given spontaneous combination of expressive actions feels just right.

Sometimes it just feels wrong. 

Visual history of 5th NY-vacation painting start:


just feels wrong and—
oops—horrible indoor lighting




Just-feels-wrong leads to attend-befriend-surrender … and a photo taken in natural outdoor lighting.





Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Artist's Statement

From a book not about painting, this statement:

You learn how to do it in the practice of it.


That's exactly what I do when I paint—learn how in the practice of it.

In early July, I turned to a new page in a notebook of Canson 90-pound 18 x 24" drawing paper. I began making marks and mixing up shades of green using yellows and blacks. Practice, practice, practice.

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Friday, March 30, 2018

Poking Around New Turf

Selected another undeveloped patch on my Core Values grid and started poking around the new turf.

taped some edges, taped off space in which to paint a stripe
painted some stripes, pasted some collage

Will continue poking tomorrow.