So, to fend off discouragement, I put down my
utility knife, ignored the boxes and cleared a table surface. I found my paints
and began to prepare a couple of watercolours for two different submissions.
Today is the deadline for one of them. The painting is not finished but I will
submit anyway and sometime today I will pick up the necessary glass to frame
them before next weekend…. There is a lot to be said about deadlines. The
watercolour on display this week has been done several times. I decided to make
an adjustment in the drawing of the figure in the foreground before I send it
to Vancouver for the Member Show coming up in January I believe. I will need
some more corplast and Styrofoam to build a shipment box. I do appreciate
knowing how to go about things with that part of the process. In the meantime
there are several other shows to which I have been accepted. One is under
control and the others are…. imagined! Priorising events will help get things
done as I weave in and out of personal and professional responsibilities.
Hahhhhhhhhah! Panic is not allowed.
I got home in the afternoon on Monday after
having slept in the Los Angeles airport for the night….long story. Choosing to sleep in the next morning did
not improve my mental capacities and I completely forgot to put out my blog. My
studio is slowly improving and I am about to embark upon my creative adventures
once again. There are a few other things getting in the way, nonetheless, paint
will hit paper this week. Life is good.
Well this is the last of my Cortes Island
stock…. I will paint something for next week. I do have some watercolours that
I intend to submit to a local show; they are not quite finished and I now know
where my palette is although I am still working on clearing a surface on which
to work. Unpacking takes a while. I was in the garden for this little painting
as you can see. I thought I would try a bit of abstraction on the water
fountain and ended up combining two images: the water and the nearby lily. It
needs work. I do like the composition, the colours are conservative and the
stamen is weak. There are possibilities and it is a good reference if I choose
to pursue a deeper abstraction of the image. Time for incubation. Creation
always requires a good deal of incubation, rumination and self-analysis through
the art of asking pertinent questions. Time to unpack another box.
Okay. My studio is still in shambles so I am
back at the work I did on Cortes. I am totally fascinated with warm and cool
grays. It was such a new realization that I could not help but do a little
experimenting. This one impressed the instructor…. I usually do not like doing
architecture. It is a precision endeavour that does not allow too many errors.
The perspective must be correct. I was uninspired with the flowers… I am not
sure why they do not excite me. Perhaps I find them too easy. In any case I turned
around. I was under the shade of one of the lovely trees that graced this
magnificent garden when I noticed the light filtering through the intricate
wood work of the balcony and glancing off the leaves and stems. I saw an
opportunity to use the grays, cool against warm, light against dark and within
the darkness, more cool against warm…. Such fun!
