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After drawing in black ink into white watercolor ground, I wondered what would happen if I drew with white ink into black watercolor ground! This piece was my first experiment with that.
You can’t tell in this image that the paint is iridescent, but to me it evokes sugarplums, midnight on the night before Christmas, and all the excitement bubbling up in anticipation of the morning.
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As this painting emerged, a sailboat appeared, and before I knew it my hand was drawing a bear. Who else would be sailingoff into the sunset in a purple boat with a red sail ?
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Remember that magical feeling of blowing soap bubbles for the first time? They seemed like fairies, like tiny worlds. And when they landed on you and didn’t pop, it left you breathless for a moment.
Breath, air, color, rainbows, ephemera. A microcosm of life.
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It’s finally here! After much planning and technical wrangling, this post marks the start of a new series on the blog: daily paintings — a special showcase and shop of the paintings that I create in my almost-daily painting sessions in the Creative Sandbox.
Here’s how it works: every weekday for at least the next two months (and hopefully beyond) I will post a new [Read more…]
John Lennon famously said that “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
Sometimes art is that way, too. Even when you start without any plan at all!
That’s how it went with this 12 x 12 canvas. I started by smearing color around with my hands, and the painting went through a crazy number of transformations before it settled into something I was pleased with. I thought you might like to see how my creative process went!
I began this painting while at my Create & Incubate Retreat this past May. Here’s the first pic — finger painting with red, orange, and white acrylic. (Looking back on this photo now, I kind of like this as is!) [Read more…]
