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Creation Stories

I find myself wondering what the leaf-creation process looked like for God.

For me it opens the door to harvesting scrumptiously luscious leaves from what I’d considered, until my current CutUps creative adventure began, a lackluster chaos-layer painted on a large sheet of paper that I shuffled from one spot to another in my studio without much interest for about six years.

I wonder how long God might have shuffled similar seemingly lackluster source material from one spot to another before seeing its potential.

More importantly, once started with the creation of leaves, how did God the Creator ever even think to stop?

One of the Best Things You Can Do in This World Is Take a Nap in the Woods
3.5 x 5″; acrylic, ink, oil pastel, watercolor pencil, and collage on card stock
CutUp
2024
chaos layer painting start
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  1. Joyful Puttering Avatar
    Joyful Puttering

    Maybe God hasn’t stopped. Maybe She’s got more scrumptious leaves that will rise up out our chaos layer. Or…maybe She will teach us to really appreciate and look at the ones we already have….or are able to create. Well done Dotty!

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      Dotty Seiter

      She’s got me working for her and we’re on a roll! She never stops!

      Thanks, MaryAnn!

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  2. Simone Avatar
    Simone

    Magic, all the tiny details, the splatters and lines and color nuances!

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      Dotty Seiter

      Simone, thank you for taking in the tiny details, the splatters, the lines, the color nuances—your enumeration of those elements reads like poetry to me : )

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    Sheila Marie Delgado

    I love your thoughts, & this piece. 🙂 Aren’t we blessed, to know that there are so many (millions) leaves to be discovered?! I just read about new sea creatures that were discovered off the coast of Chile, I believe. So pretty, and interesting, and they have been here all along.

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      Dotty Seiter

      I am delighting in what you shared here, Sheila! New sea creatures! Here all along! So much to discover!

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In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.

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In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.

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