On My Nightstand, On My Easel, 6/7/23

June 8, 2023

On My Nightstand, On My Easel, 6/7/23

On my nightstand:

Especially in the wake of having recently read the densely rich and compellingly informative book Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, the following one-liner from Alexis Hall’s romping romcom Boyfriend Material hit my funny bone head on:

I hoped I wasn’t going to keep having emotions,
because it would get really tiring
really fast.

On my easel:

I’ve created another start to develop in situ on my upcoming vacation. Same paint palette as my other start, different color-mixing, this one 14 x 17″.

artist at play

inspired by monique carr, prepping for vacation art, simone's colors

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Dotty Seiter

11 responses to “On My Nightstand, On My Easel, 6/7/23”

Sheila Marie Delgado

June 8, 2023 at 6:17 pm

Love this color mix. The warm rust, the creamy peachy tones, and the bold green dancing throughout! Fun ahead! 🙂

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  June 8, 2023 at 6:27 pm
  
  I’m eager to play with this start, to see where it takes me. Thanks for your nod to the colors, Sheila—I used the same pink, turquoise, and quin gold as in my other start but I made a point of investigating what new outcomes I could get from mixing.
  
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  1. Sheila Marie Delgado
    
    June 8, 2023 at 7:09 pm
    
    ;0)
    
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carolee36

June 9, 2023 at 4:01 am

Wow! Like you going bigger! Great palette!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  June 9, 2023 at 5:11 am
  
  Carol, thank you, and thank you! I do so value the snippets of art conversation, observation, suggestion, feedback, and input here at my blog. All part of the creative fodder!
  
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Joyful Puttering

June 9, 2023 at 9:20 am

ha ha….Yes! So much emotion can be tiring! But a good kind of tired. It’s going to be fun to see where you take these “starts!”

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  June 9, 2023 at 12:29 pm
  
  haha re emotions! I’ve had a slew of rapid-fire emotions in the past couple of days. Really tiring really fast!
  
  It’ll be fun for me as well to see where I take these starts and where they take me : )
  
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lola

June 9, 2023 at 2:48 pm

that QUOTE! ACK! I am a highly sensitive person….emotions are exhausting. It’s true!

And this start – like fall, spring and summer came together and winked at winter. Love it.

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  June 9, 2023 at 5:43 pm
  
  Lola, the quotation makes me laugh out loud every time I revisit it! I’m trying to apply what I learned from Marc Brackett to some runaway emotions currently—RULER: recognize, understand, label, express, regulate. Tired on top of tired!
  
  LOVE your description of the color palette in this painting start! Dynamite! Thank you!
  
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  1. Lola
    
    June 11, 2023 at 3:26 pm
    
    I just ordered the book! Ready to regulate!
    
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Dotty Seiter

June 11, 2023 at 4:23 pm

Let me know what you think! I need a personal trainer perched on my shoulder to guide me now : )

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