It’s time for a process post here at dotty seiter: now playing.
I’m on artist Amanda Evanston’s mailing list and, as part of a New Year’s Day email, she included the link to a creative exercise she’s done for several years, usually sometime early in January.
I’m in the process of following the steps she suggests, adapting them, as she encourages, to fit my personal modus operandi and the materials and supplies I have at hand.
First step: “unwhite” a substrate. I grab a 12 x 14″ canvas from a counter top in my studio. I think I prepped it (who knows when) for some project I had in mind (who knows what) but there it is ready and waiting and already unwhite.
Already unwhite but, in my estimation, not satisfyingly unwhite enough. I grab an artificial flower prop (thank you for that gift, Sylvia!) to use as a visual reference for loose interpretation
and decide to use already mixed colors stored on improvised stay-wet paper palettes (thank you for sending some of your dried-up oil-paint palettes my way, Lola!) leftover from my December bookmaking joy.
Yup, having fun.
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