Showing posts with label surprising challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surprising challenges. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2023

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