Upset > All Set!

I leave off yesterday heading I don't know where, entirely content not knowing. 

Hahaha! Good thing I don't know!  

Yesterday, in mere seconds, I shift from a demanding to-do list to totally happy art-play. 

Today, I sit with pen in hand and, in mere seconds, create a mess totally not to my liking.

Noooooooo!

Lived experience reminds me I've rescued almost every mess I've ever painted myself into, but still I suspect I'll most likely pitch this one and call it a day.

Eventually, though, I think to call on my trusty paper cutter to isolate a found composition, and I set to work with tweaks and tiny touches of magic. Fascinating process, I gotta say!

The Day Was Still Warming Up 4 x 5.5" greeting card; acrylic, ink, oil pastel, and collage, mounted on card stock abstract 2022

Great News

Great news:

1.
Can't tell you how freeing this is!


                                                @fidoart

2.
Painted over yesterday; also freeing.

newest patch painted onto grid-format work-in-progress

detail from today's patch

today's patch in the "big picture"—
working title: Core Values

Horticultural Happy Place

Sometimes ya gotta roll up your sleeves, risk a few prickers, do some gentle dead-heading, tease out a weed or two, and get soil under your fingernails.

Who'da thought I could rescue these blooms?

Risk a Few Prickers and a Bee Sting
4.5 x 6"; acrylic, ink, collage, and pastels on paper
abstract floral
2017
sold

The photo below shows where I started today.

So much hands-on learning here. I had to cover up the bits I wanted to "undo" in such a way that they wouldn't bleed through. I had to interact with all four major color fields in the painting, remixing those colors from scratch based on vague memories of what I'd created six days and one country away from today's starting point.

And I did it!