. . . back to the drawing board
Last summer I arrived back in Boston with a generous bouquet of hydrangea. As the blooms dried, they each became subtly shaded and fragile, irresistible to both me and the cat. Here’s a painting of one of the remaining stems prior to its feline encounter.
I started this before Christmas, and needed to select a replacement flower when returning from my cross-country jaunt. It’s satisfying.
Part of what appeals to me with this technique, mylar, graphite and oil paint, is the accidental or spontaneous quality. so suggestive and responsive and lush. I also like how it remains possible to wipe away the work quite completely until its dry. Lots of fun today.
I started first with loose sketches on mylar with graphite (powder, bars, and pencils) then added oil paint. Perhaps overworked, knowing when to stop is always a tricky thing. This hydrangea is from a bouquet I brought back from Vermont this summer – a variety that grows wild in the edges of Bennington College’s campus, they survived the hot ride home and ultimately dried beautifully.
I then moved on to a linen canvas 12×12, planning a more sustained painting with the same hydrangea on 2x4s arrangement – this is the easel and my set up. . . . and may I say I will be adjusting the background values, but can I blame the camera?
The old Mac was 6 or 7 years old, and unfortunately, none of my old software runs on my lovely new machine.
Test scan
I have files to transfer from the backup disk- art, music and everything else, online banking complications to unravel – oh, and switch to a local credit union at the same time, and the decisions on software to be purchased or downloaded and installed. Today I located and downloaded a driver for my old scanner – and it now works! I like my scanner - I can scan transparencies – I have many slides to someday digitalize.
and I painted gourds? Just another one of those days. A work in progress.
6x12 inch oil on linen
Joined friends at Elm Bank in Wellesley. It was fun. I painted. I want to scrape them away. So, nearly 2 months since I painted – what can I say, this hasn’t been a year that I was hoping for, but I’m looking to get back on track. Painting twice a week? minimum? and yoga at least once. I’ll be back.
I’m an artistic chameleon, changing my art with each passing class. These paintings are surprising and intriguing and yet, where is this coming from and where is it going?
So here’s today’s work – the setting is the living room in my dorm.
And here are the assembled works of the week.
Gawd it was hot!!
Woke up with the birds and started painting.
a dorm room narrative.
Works in progress -first combining my dorm room, and then again assembling a cast of characters using a total of three photos and painting from the model.
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