Showing posts with label wipe-off page. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wipe-off page. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Speedy Delivery

Belting Out was delivered after a protracted, sometimes painful, contraction-by-contraction-by-contraction labor.

Lonnnng delivery if ever there was one.

One day recently I was emotionally preoccupied and had no focus to bring to my studio. I grabbed a ready-for-reuse calendar poster from my stash and did nothing more than spread gesso on it and then scribble through the wet paint with a metal skewer.

I ended up using the start as a wipe-off-my-palette-knife page. That baby was born and breathing on its own after a labor—if it could even be called that—of no more than seven effortless minutes.

Speedy delivery.

Speaking of Speedy Delivery, a phrase I've borrowed from Mr. Rogers, if you haven't yet seen Won't You Be My Neighbor?, do.

While She'd Been Inside, Someone Else Had Arrived
11x14"; acrylic on paper
abstract
2018