Morning Mist

Experiment.

My eyes land on a sheet of sandwich paper onto which I've recently blotted some diluted white paint from another piece. The sandwich paper has dried to a somewhat lacy effect. I affix it to my current what-if exploration.

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work in progress
5.5 x 8.25"; acrylic, ink, oil pastel, and collage
on textured heavy card stock

 

Where Am I?

If I were working on paper I'd be at my paper trimmer, isolating a whole buncha volunteer compositions, and making a whole buncha greeting cards.

But I'm working on canvas, hiking through a holler somewhere in the hills, without a path, putting one foot in front of the other, getting scratched by prickers and slapped by low branches, all in faith that I'll eventually find my way.

Investigative details:

Halting, Stammering, Tripping

I am

halting,

stammering,

tripping over my own paintbrush,

dysfluent,

stuttering,

herky-jerky,

stopping and starting,

faltering,

lacking direction,

painting anyway

and

any way.

investigative work in progress 7/26/17

Investigative Work

Picked up a canvas that was last touched seven weeks ago.

Now I'm doing what I might call random unfocused investigative work, aligning myself as fully as possible with a spirit of nonattachment to any particular or preconceived outcome.

I am mucking about.

And seeing quite a bit of muck as a result, if the truth be known, though this small patch of canvas emerged as a happy little found composition.

investigative work detail 7/24/17