Process! #2

January 8, 2025

Process! #2

Second step: drip lines of paint across the canvas. ✅

I have yet to find my stride with drips, truth be told; I don’t know why they challenge me. But I get into the anything-goes spirit of Amanda and improvise my way to some partly-dripped, partly-dragged, partly-painted-with-a-different-brush lines.

Next up: think in present tense about the coming year and write in “absolutes” what you can do to help yourself, help loved ones, and help strangers. ✅ Then, begin the process of abstracting your canvas with splatters. ✅

I like using Amanda’s prompt to put words to the images that pop up in my imagination when I think about what might be different a year from now vis à vis growth in myself (I am the queen of magnificent drips) and what I might offer to loved ones and strangers in 2025.

artist at play

here’s to 2025, inspired by amanda evanston, paint drips

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Dotty Seiter

13 responses to “Process! #2”

Simone

January 8, 2025 at 7:11 am

Lovely to see your art again, and I love your experiments with drips!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 8, 2025 at 7:51 am
  
  Simone, always happy to see you here! Thanks for your encouragement regarding drips—I feel inspired to do more active playing with them now!
  
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Joyful Puttering

January 8, 2025 at 7:58 am

Oh how I love where this partly-finished painting is going! Amanda’s drip challenge turned on it’s side with quintessential “Dotty writing” is making it all come together! You are becoming the queen of process and layering….and I’m enjoying following along.

I need to take notes…because I don’t do this very well.

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Dotty Seiter

January 8, 2025 at 10:15 am

We have family coming and going for a week beginning tomorrow, and having Amanda at hand to focus and lead me with a new year creative exercise feels just right. I delight in the external direction provided and delight in the internal interpretation of the direction. Thanks for following along so appreciatively, MaryAnn!

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Sheila Marie Delgado

January 8, 2025 at 2:38 pm

Love your process, and the changes that have developed.

Lot’s of fun here! Enjoy! 🙂

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 8, 2025 at 3:14 pm
  
  Thanks, Sheila. This is a lovely early-January creative exercise. Making changes as I go through the process opens me to all the change that will take place in 2025.
  
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  1. Sheila Marie Delgado
    
    January 8, 2025 at 3:28 pm
    
    Love that, Dotty! xoxo
    
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roseanne333

January 8, 2025 at 7:51 pm

Dotty, I’ve yet to do this exercise and following you along encourages me to get to it. I’m loving the color palette you chose and your message writing. 🩷

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 8, 2025 at 8:17 pm
  
  Oh, I do hope you’ll do this exercise. Even being only partway through, I have felt its lovely impact. Many Simple Pleasures and Gratitudes. The color palette makes me chuckle a bit, as I “chose” it by going with the color that was already on the canvas from who knows when plus an intention to use up paints from a previous project, waiting on stay-wet palette paper for a chance to contribute.
  
  For my message writing, I took note of Amanda’s recommending that this exercise be done not in a group setting but instead be a time of private reflection. Because I knew I wanted to post the process, which would include my “journaling” on my canvas, I opted to write out my thoughts and then write on top of them to allow for both privacy and blogging : )
  
  Thanks for your comments, Roseanne. They give me another chance to reflect on the process and on the reflections embedded in the work itself.
  
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imajenationgmailcom

January 9, 2025 at 2:58 pm

I really appreciate seeing the process on this! And noting the layers building, the intention and thought and talent going into it. What a great way to begin a new year! xo

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 9, 2025 at 3:49 pm
  
  Thanks, Lola. It has indeed been a great way to begin a new year. I like combining some thoughtful reflection and layered creativity. I find myself paying attention to all manner of things that I might not have otherwise : )
  
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carolee36

February 21, 2025 at 3:41 am

Busy busy busy!

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Dotty Seiter

February 21, 2025 at 5:42 am

I’m having fun looking back at this busy, busy, busy-ness after two months : )

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