Landed in a Lively

You may remember that I vacationed on Monhegan Island in Maine a year ago with my dad, that we landed in a lively conversation with a woman we passed on the lane who turned out to be an artist, that she invited me to pop over to her outdoor studio space—which I did.

Just returned from a four-day repeat vacation on Monhegan Island in Maine with my dad during which I spent parts of three mornings on the tarp-covered deck at Alison Hill Studio in magical summer-sunshine-summer-sky-summer-breeze, painting with artist Judy of last year's lively conversation on the lane. The lively conversation continued, and paint started finding its way to paper.

First marks:

Maker

The maker in me is lively of late.

Yay!

An Anecdote Crafted Out of Nothing
4x6" postcard; acrylic, ink, pastel, and collage on drawing paper,
mounted on card stock
abstract
2019

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I know, I know, you thought I was on a roll with a series of postcards from that 18x24" start done last summer at Lake Champlain.

So did I.

But.

While cleaning my studio, I bumped into an October 2016 mono-stripes exercise I did for a Jane Davies online course while on vacation in West Virginia, and you know how one thing

mono-stripes exercise 2016

leads to another.

I Was Putting Papers Away When the Telephone Rang
4x5" postcard; acrylic, pastels, and collage on card stock
abstract
2019