Noticing #6

noticing:

• the way ferocious rain and fierce wind are having their way with Deer Isle

• the way Meadow Cove cottage hugs us with cozy protection 

• the way Stu Kestenbaum knocked our socks off reading his poetry at the Opera House last night

• the way I fought with myself as I painted today

• the way Peter Beerits engages with found materials to make sculpture and malarkey at Nervous Nellie's Jams and Jellies 

in progress

detail

Noticing #5

noticing:

• breath in, breath out
• neap tide, ebb tide
• uphill, downhill
• grasp, release
• paralysis, boldness

detail, work in progress #1

detail, work in progress #1

work in progress #2

studio

Noticing #4

noticing:

• the music of rain drumming on our cottage roof
• grouchiness at the discomfort in my painting process this morning
• joy in purchasing real food at the local farmer's market
• how I come alive when I engage in curiosity
• internal arguments running round and round my mind

Noticing #3

noticing:

• alternating current—right brain, left brain, right, left, here, there
• my breath moving in and out
• beech leaves scribbling in a breeze
• the fun of intuitive mark-making with graphite crayon followed by intuitive partial erasures
• how much of the language i use when i speak—to others and to myself—reflects comparison, judgment, differences/differentiation, discernment, discrimination

detail, work in progress
16 x 20", mixed media on drawing paper
played with oil pastels found in our vacation cottage

detail, another start
also 16 x 20", mixed media on drawing paper

Noticing #2

noticing:

• my ambivalence about this start, and about posting it
• the background music of a foghorn 
• where I carry sadness and loss in my body
• the warmth of sunlight on my face, my shoulders
• that I can say So it is, yes, and thank you to runaway thoughts

detail, work in progress
18 x 24", mixed media on drawing paper
painted en plein air in morning sunlight

detail

detail

Noticing #1

noticing:

• how sunlight and shadow play on inches-deep moss and ferns in the Crockett Cove Woods Preserve

• how I want to be right when information is under dispute

• how I follow my own counsel and don’t argue

• how I’m pleased when my memory serves me and my information is correct

• how savory and satisfying my picnic lunch is

detail from a few minutes
 of starting to lay ground and color
on a large sheet of Canson drawing paper
on an exquisite sunny day in June

Upcycling

upcycling 'let go'—
old name but same task at hand,
lessons from the edge

work in progress
8 x 10"; acrylic and collage on gessobord

detail

detail

detail

detail