Today I'm mindful of my older granddaughter Caroline's former oft-used toddler assertion of independence, all by!
In cahoots, I think, with the same part of me that wanted to assert its independence yesterday, All-By yammers at me this morning. I go to my studio again with the idea of creating a multi-layered intuitive organic piece on paper from which I'll cut found compositions to use as postcards. My thought is to start with random mark-making.
All-By gets her own idea and wrests the paper from me insisting, all by! What emerges is of course not at all what I'd planned but I put up no resistance. All-By wanders from spot to spot in the house adding snippets of blind contour drawing and patches of doodles. Ends up with this:
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| work in progress, 9 x 12"; blind contour and doodles on paper |
All-By looks at me; I look at All-By.
All-By keeps the reins. No way is she going to add layers that cover the blind contour mark-making. Cut this into six rectangles, she states. Then go outdoors for a walk. I've got this.
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| Pulling Out a Slim Volume of Poetry 4 x 5.5" postcard; acrylic and ink on paper, mounted on card stock abstract floral 2021 |
