On my nightstand:
Margery held up her hands.
“Very well. Very well.
I shall save my breath
to cool my porridge,
as you like to say.”
—Annie Lyon, The Air Raid Book Club
I do like me a good British idiom!
On my easel:
“Cool my porridge”….love it!
Lovely still life…especially love the vase…and that pop of color on the table!
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This piece began with what I refer to as a chaos layer, in this case with a limited palette of blue, yellow, black and white. That base layer was in fact several layers and included mark-making of various sorts. I then elected to paint over that chaos layer except for the vase shape I established, introducing a translucent quinacridone magenta that allowed the base layer to partially show through (to create a table) and the original palette to cover the rest of the page. Happy to know the vase appealed to your eye! Thanks for your warm feedback!
Hmm. There’s a lot I’m enjoying here, Dotty. The greens that resulted from all the mixing are so spring-like. It’s a happy, energetic piece with the dots on the vase mirroring the blobs (sorry) on the foliage. Love that. Although the magenta can be considered cool, with its blues, it feels so warm to me. Love your style.
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Roseanne, thank you for this welcome art-talk—your attention to the greens that resulted from mixing colors, your perception of a happy, energetic piece, your noticing the mirroring of pattern in the vase and in the foliage, and your picking up on warmth in the magenta. I took such pleasure in returning to the piece to take it in through your filters! I especially liked your pointing out the mirroring of the dots/blobs which I hadn’t tuned into at all : )
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I love this, Dotty! Cool my porridge. Haha. 🙂
I love the messy stems, and the pops of dark. LOVE the purply, messy table! We should always have colorful messy tables! I wonder what AD would say. Haha! 🙂
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Cool my porridge! Indeed, a great expression!
The messy stems came from experimenting with mostly uncooperative botanical printing but, like you, I liked the effect of the messy stems and pops of dark. The purply element of the purply, messy table was the result of needing to create value contrast, and the messy part of the purply, messy table was the happy outcome of the purply paint’s being translucent.
Thanks for all your feedback, Sheila : )
You know how many English words I’ve learned from you by looking up all those words that I didn’t know!
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Simone, I do sometimes smile at how our friendship has probably increased your fluency with your already proficient use of English!
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In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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