Inquiry in Process

I know so much more than I did in 2014 when I took up painting, but—OH MY GOSH—it is perfectly clear that I will never run out of things to learn when I paint!

How hard can it be to scribble, you might wonder. 

Plenty hard enough, I might reply.

For me, at least. 

I was so challenged this afternoon! 

I scrambled to do the kind of scribbling I wanted to do and ran headlong into limitation after limitation … incompatible supplies, tearing the edges of the paper as I gave free rein to movement of my hand, poor quality pens, wanting some kind of result that was halfway pleasing to my eye.

I think I've got myself an inquiry in process.

study in scribbling
ink, pencil, water soluble pastel, oil pastel,
and acrylic paint markers on a book page
5 x 7.5" collage paper

Washed to a Sparkle by Saltwater

The sea has always whispered to me, 

all down my life it’s been there. 

And with that endless restlessness 

come other sounds -- 

seagulls shrieking 

and mast wires clinking as boats shift; 

pebbles turning 

and waves tapping sea-worn rocks.

                —Jules Hardy, Altered Land

Washed to a Sparkle by Saltwater
4.75 x 8"; acrylic and oil pastel on a book page
abstract
2022

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humble beginnings

This Fair Lady

Henry Higgins to Colonel Pickering, in My Fair Lady, about women: 

                                    Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!

My head—the head of this fair lady artist—is decidedly full of cotton, hay, and rags lately. Nonetheless, off to my studio I go. I make a start at clearing my head.

tearing

gluing

moving color

Happy New Year!