Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time but I don't know where
—Paul Simon
All true:
• I'm on my way,
• I don't know where I'm going, and
• I'm taking my time.
Also true:
• This piece did not go at all where I thought it might; and
• I'm grateful to be working in a sketchbook because it frees me up to go more easily wherever a painting takes me.
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Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 7 x 10"; acrylic and ink in sketch book abstract 2022 |
Yeah.
Wasn't getting there under my 'own' steam.
Invited outrageous openness.
Got out of the way.
Went about my business.
And then some days later found myself in my studio finger-painting.
Grateful.
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work in progress; finger-painting with acrylic in sketchbook |
After too many months, I finally take action against many perceived odds and much ineffectual spinning of wheels, get myself to my studio, put some paint on paper, post at my blog. Not just once but three days in a row now.
And then run into cyber snafus. Not all subscribers receive email notification of my posts. Others do but are not able to comment.
REALLY??!
For now, the only step I know to take is to keep returning to my studio to paint. That's my repeat ACTION plan.
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| having fun playing with posca paint pens, popping in touches of purple and blue |
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| more application of paint directly from tubes, with fingers as tools for mixing and moving color |
