Yes, I realize I've been neglectful of my blogging duties for a few days but I have an excuse ... at long last, I've been in the studio working on a painting. *Woo Hoo! Hello, Muse, I've missed you!* I spoke in a previous post about doing an abstract and yep, can't fool you guys, it's exactly what I've been doing ... and I'm enjoying myself tremendously, too.
Nope, I'm not yet ready to post a 'work in progress' image just yet, y'all are just going to have to be a little patient with me on that, but it's almost ready for viewing. Maybe tomorrow. Some friends have already seen it laying in the middle of the studio floor, and have remarked favorably on it, so that's good. Always nice to get positive feedback.
Quite honestly, I was a bit surprised with the direction the painting has taken. It's not at all what I had originally walked into the studio to do. My first thoughts were about the colors Baby Blue and Silver. I called best buddy Vega early in the morning (woke her up is more like it) and asked her for a word association for the color Baby Blue. Her first sleepy response was her cousin's name, but ya' know, that wasn't working for me. I told her to try again. Second, slightly more awake response was "healing". Bingo! Rah! I almost hung up on her and ran down the hall to the studio.
I pulled a large canvas from the studio closet and pilfered through my paints for different shades of light blue. Found some silver glitter, silver jewelry wire, texture medium, spray bottle, hair dryer and assorted other stuff and got to work. One of the paint colors I had pulled out of the drawer was a lovely shade of a medium-bright turquoise blue. I can't say why, but it was the first thing I spread on the canvas. From that moment, the original Baby Blue went right out the window.
I started adding Prussian Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cobalt Violet, Magenta, Brilliant Yellow, Tangerine, Lime Green, Christmas Green .... Baby Blue didn't make it to the canvas until very late in the game, and then only as a bit of accent color. What seems to be developing is like a cross between a picture of a new galaxy forming and a tie-dyed t-shirt. Completely unintentional, but it's what's happening nonetheless. Of course, I have a drawer full of tie-dyed t-shirts, so y'all know I'm likin' what's happening!
Although I'm pleased with the work thus far, something is still missing, some elusive element I can't quite see just yet. I have an idea brewing, but am not sure how to accomplish it. I want more than just all these lovely whorls and swirls of color on the canvas ... I want a life form of some sort, and it doesn't necessarily have to be human. In fact, I would prefer it not to be human, but it must be subtle, glazed on the canvas in such a way as to appear to be coming into form - not yet materialized - between worlds of thought and matter. Again, I have an idea, but will have to think on it more this evening.
So that's it. That's all. Short entry, I know. I hope you will pardon me for not being my usual verbose self, but Muse calls and I don't want to ignore her lest she decide to take another vacation without me.
Namaste to y'all ...
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