I know I haven't posted in awhile, but I've been deep in the artistic trenches these days. I've been trying to push my comfort zone, looking to infuse a bit more color in projects, working on big and small ones, trying some new techniques....
I feel like over the course of the last couple of weeks I took a couple steps backward in my work and then finally moved a bit forward. I guess that sometimes that's what it takes. I get hyper focused on an idea sometimes and have to see it through, have to see the end result even to be able to move past it. The beautiful thing about paint is you can ALWAYS paint over it again.
Here is a small piece I've been working on. It started out as a tree with a few collaged paper flowers. It was pleasant enough, my initial inspiration was a tree I saw on an olive oil bottle.
Then I decided to start playing with color. I put on some good music and focused less on any idea, just feeling things a bit more intuitively. No plan, no expectations...
And here it is a little farther along, with a bit more imagery added in.
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And here is where it sits today. I'm not sure if it's done yet. I think it needs to sit and breathe a little bit.
But even where it sits today feels good. Better than where I was a couple of weeks ago. I can feel some forward momentum building in myself and I'm eager to see where it takes me.
