Here I offer a little retrospective of my
Quick & Quixotic painting/series.
Starting with a 12x16" piece of unstretched canvas, I made marks, pasted collage, painted, and continued doing more of the same until I reached the following seascape.
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| working title: Quick & Quixotic |
Then, I cut the work-in-progress into ten smaller pieces.
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| working title: Quick & Quixotic Cut-Ups |
From there, I took the ten smaller pieces, one of which I cut even further into half-inch-square tiles, and developed twelve completed paintings, most of which—woo hoo!—turned out to be happy explorations that pleased my eye. I fought hard on many days with one challenge, or two, or ten, but numerous little moments of grace made themselves known in paint. I am so grateful.
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| Surface, Sky, Whirlpool, Wave |
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| Helpers of Each Other in All the Chances and Changes in the World |
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| Sleeping in the Room with the Drying Herbs |
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| A Hooked Rug of Fabric Scraps, Rose and Green and Purple |
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| A Happenso Bookmark |
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| They Sat Drinking Hot Cider |
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| For Five Minutes She Suspended Judgment and Fell Silent |
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| I Did Have a Trouble or Two on My Mind |
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| An Awkward Place Full of Awkward Questions |
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| The Patter of Rain on Windowpanes |
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| The Good Order of the Toolshed |
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| It Had a Beginning That It Had Forgotten |
It was two months ago (yikes, two months!) that I took note of a strong desire to paint quickly, freely, and without giving a hoot, and, in response, started
painting—quickly, freely, and without giving a hoot. The painting's working title became the now familiar
Quick & Quixotic, a.k.a.
q&q.
More often than not, though, over the course of those two months (again I say, yikes, two months!), I found myself painting other than in the carefree, paint-faster-than-your-mind-can-think mode I wished for.
And still wish for.
I'm going to clean up my studio and see what happens next.
