Lake Champlain, Day 8

[entry drafted at Lake Champlain 6/15/18]

Sweet sweet summer day, slipping now into evening's hush as I write from the porch of our vacation cottage with our car mostly packed for our return home tomorrow.

3rd Lake Champlain work-in-progress,
18x24"; mixed media
fifth layer,
paint marker shapes, stencils, ink doodles

final layer for now,
ink and paint-marker doodles, oil pastels, veiling, print collage

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Lake Champlain, Day 7

[entry drafted at Lake Champlain 6/14/18]

The days of our vacation layer one on top of the other, each day distinct in its textures, shapes, nuances, saturations, and hues, and all of them together more than any one.

I start a third painting in my vacation series, laying down one idea at a time—before breakfast, after a hike beside a bog where we talk with wildlife management folks installing a beaver baffle, between a trip to the St. Albans Historical Museum and a lakeside walk, after indulging in the guilty pleasure of Island Ice Cream.

first layer,
India ink applied with new calligraphy pen and then a calligraphy brush

first layer,
India ink,
detail

second layer,
oil pastels
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second layer,
oil pastels
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third layer,
latex paint dripped and manipulated with the handle end of a paintbrush,
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third layer,
latex paint dripped and manipulated with the handle end of a paintbrush,
detail

third layer,
latex paint dripped and manipulated with the handle end of a paintbrush,
detail

fourth layer,
gelli plate monoprints,
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