artist at play
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Young@Heart
Painting this 6 x 6″ grid of hearts put me in mind of an amazing chorus called Young@Heart. We attended a live perfomance many years ago and have seen them featured a few times on television. Totally life-affirming! The performers range in age from 75-102, with no one younger than 70 allowed! They perform rock… Continue reading
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Process! #8
Yeah, I know, where did the tiny handwritten intentions for 2025 go? the big bold scribbled intentions? the saved-under-masking-tape reveals? Darned if I know! But here’s where I find myself at the moment. Continue reading
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Process! #7
On my nightstand: Having stuff aroundmakes you feel ready for anything.That’s something you either understandor you don’t.—Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather (fabulous YA novel!) On my easel: Well, I surely have stuff around in my studio. My eyes land on my stash of hand-painted collage paper; my hands grab a sheet of collage paper painted on… Continue reading
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Process! #6
With masking tape removed, the project is essentially complete. Amanda suggests now’s the time to apply a little bit of a sort of compositional structure but, guys, don’t turn this into something to match your couch. I know it’s tempting, but DON’T do it! Let your guts hang out. This is not about making something… Continue reading
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Process! #5
Step 5: Grab a roll of masking or painter’s tape, tear off pieces of differing lengths, and stick them randomly and/or intentionally onto your painting to mask areas that will be covered when you apply new layers of paint to the entire canvas. ✅ Before grabbing tape, I quickly layer on additional bits of color,… Continue reading
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Process! #4
Fourth step: cycle through steps 1-3 as many times as you choose, layering additional dripped lines, splatters, mark-making, and intentions for 2025. ✅✅✅✅ Step 4.1: Amanda doesn’t include an explicit step for working collage into the exercise, but she has bits of collage showing through in her painting, so how can I not follow suit?… Continue reading
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Process! #3
Third step: dip your fingertips into wet paint of various colors and fingerpaint swooshes and marks onto your canvas. ✅ I opt for shades and tints of the colors I’ve got going already and, to the fingerpainting, I bring a dip pen and India ink into play. Engaging. Satisfying. Continue reading
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Process Interruption
Turns out part of my Process! series of posts includes pressing pause on the January creative exercise I’m working on to experiment with more gift wrap! I turn to my still inexhaustible supply of 12 x 12″ sheets of tissue-like Dixie All-Purpose Food Wrap and get to work. I paint with a different color palette… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Process!
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… Continue reading
My Story
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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