" Orchid" painting #49

" Orchid" painting #49. This has become Do As Many As I Can challenge. I am painting daily and by that I mean I put brush to canvas every day. However to get some of what I am chasing down here it just is going out side my time frames. I have decided that that is what its about going outside the lines. I am trying to tell the story inside the narrative. Whats under the surface. While thats happening I am tweaking my method and process. I have just purchased some larger canvas which will not speed me up but I have an opportunity through the VAA to possibly maybe show it. Yes of course I show it here to all of you and I love that so much. But these are just not the same as live. Plus I need to push some of these babies into the world and see how they fair away from the shelter of the studio. Thats art purpose is to go out into the world and survive. They must find homes and advocates. They are seeds flung far into the world. To grow and thrive as time travelers.

"Modify" painting # 48. 5-28-2014

"Modify" painting # 48. I think there is an interesting narrative pooling up. Walking up to the easel all the time either for teaching art, creating art, and or developing art has been really freeing. Over all even though I see tons of room to grow and evolve I am becoming internally satisfied with the process. I like the little tweeks or blips along the way. An odd bit of world here or there peaking through. Over all I think my personal filter of existence is beginning to show. The unique and singular way I v"see" the world. My pace is picking back up again as I have resolved the blockages slowing it down. Its like my creative pace car has finished the pit stop and I have resumed before the checker flag goes down. I am approaching 50 paintings and thats a great thing! So much creative soup bubbling up. Not bad for  a couple months worth of work. I like this last piece its a little funny, a little odd, and a little dark. Kinda like life!

"Event" painting #47 5-27-2014

"Event" painting #47 Its been an eventful week lots of good changes. The studio has been bussing with content creation. I have made some serious headway for Cinnamon Cooney's Hart Party . New tutorials in the can and now come the stare down at am AV guy who is also my Husband to edit this stuff so we can post it. Lots of personal experimentation for me personally in my own art. Some of it really frustration and some of it like a breeze off a mountain. This painting has been one I have kicked around in my little can for a while. I am and always will be a lover of snails. They just look like fairies ride them as soon as I am not looking. My MCM home has so many owls and mushrooms but as of yet I have not gotten fun with the fungus. I may revisit this again there is more I want to look at here and I am still getting my sense of some of these new materials. I have been posting my projects lots of places as you know. I just added Craftsy into the mix.

"Sage" 5-22-2014 daily painting challenge #46

"Sage" 5-22-2014 daily painting challenge #46. I am blessed today as pressure is melting away and things I have been focusing are manifesting. This is a new day compared to yesterday in every way including the literal. I can and I will are the feelings of the day. It's always a challenge to paint animals that are oddly shaped or arranged. Ones that are unexpected in some way. However the pay off can be worth it. How things are and how they feel when that are put on canvas is the ether of art. just because it reads well as a photograph does not mean It will read well as a painting no matter how skilled a draftsmen the artist is. So you have to get a sense of what will translate and what will be lost in translation. Because I am a translator as much as anything else. Taking the poetry that the divine composes and putting in a language that others can understand. No small task when you think about it. We creative types tune into that divine radio broadcast and try to share it with others through music, art, the written word, and countless other little creative efforts. I have seem some profound scrapbook pages in my time. Ahhhh where is my babel fish muse and my towel there is so much to see and do!

"Perscicacious" 5-20-2014 #45

"Perspicacious" 5-20-2014 #45
Wisdom is something you get best from having boots on the ground or in this case brushes in the water. This daily painting goal like all life goals has hit a speed bump. Between illness, my husbands travel schedule, and the magical ever growing pile of laundry daily painting has fallen down. However even though its not going as smoothly as in the beginning and even though I am now the complicated nature is more time consuming then a painting sketch I keep going. Maybe I paint everyday but, it's not done on one day. I am using a new ground to help push some of my watery effects further. I am accepting the little bobbles coming my way. I mean husbands got to work and I like having the lights on. I have to work too...back to the lights on. So back to the drawing or the white board and more planning for the day. There are meetings to see what we can get done if anything and I paint where I can and when I can. I feel as if I am in a mad three ring circus and I am sitting on a unicycle atop a wire  teacups balanced on my head juggling a never ending litany of things to do. I think only Dr Suess could illustrate me. Which gets me to this painting and all its insight. I wonder if when I explain the circumstances in my life if the viewer can see how they impact the art. Influence its nature.

"Emerald" 5-16-2014 painting challenge #44

"Emerald" 5-16-2014 painting challenge #44 So this is the last of the Heavy Bodied paints being abused in ways the Golden, Liquitex, and Matisse web pages all state very clearly they are not deigned for. Today I was pouring through the manufacturing stats getting ready to trip into the world of absorbent grounds. I hope its right I have a gallon of it. The last couple of paintings have been romanic and sweet after the darker turn I did. I know have fluids and flows all ready to go. Prepped pieces dryng for the next couple of days and I realize whatever I thought I was doing in my daily paint has become something else. Daily painters work small with a fantastic economy of brushstrokes.....clearly not happening here. However I am now someplace I refuse to back out of. I am dug in and this is the ground I will be setting up shop in. I have been thinking about Brian Dispain lately and his odd little bit of created world he works out. Imagining what got him there. I a thinking how do we get anywhere in art to build a place that the creator and the viewer can fall into. Thinking about Dune and how I always think of the Gom Jabar and when it is scary I say the mantra.....( You know it)Then I sip my water imagine its from my Fremen suit and I am in the endless desert that is the center of the universe. Its totally awesome that all that daydreaming I got punished for as a child has turned into a super power. I live in a rich inner world and some of it leaks out on my canvas. How awesome is that?

"Summer" 5-15-2014 daily painting challenge #43

"Summer" 5-15-2014 daily painting challenge #43 The summer wind has started to blow. I see the richer colors coming into view. I am treading water keeping up on my daily painting. Even posting is behind. But, weirdly I am not behind al all. I am in a creative renaissance and thats a great place to be. I have some project management to do to keep my eye on all the balls I am juggling. I did update today my art studio and we are all full of Golden Flow and Inks. Plus I have a crazy tub of Absorbent ground. Thats going to give me some crazy options. I spent the day with a artists, family, and friends. I got some spiritual gems today to ponder and thats always a blessing. I saw my mom! Been missing her a ton. My projects are coming to fruition across the board and its all just perfect. Thats summer around here for sure. Where everything is sunny, beautiful, and sweet. Summer is going to be epic! I think these are being a little Jane Austin but that works for me. Team Knightly!