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Hiding in Plain Sight
I detected no landscape at all in this quadrant of chaos until I let dripping-paint trees meander from the top edge of the page downward. Continue reading
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Feeling the Buzz
I can feel creative energy zinging throughout my body of late and, somehow, my sense is that I can feel the movement of that buzz because I am inwardly still enough to do so. In any case, I’m running with it, so to speak! My most recent adventure is fueled by a free mini online… Continue reading
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November Adventures 4, 5, 6
Lines memorized in 1967 that, in combination with other inspiration that found its way to me, contributed to my moving out of being stuck and back into creative flow with this series of November art adventures: What might have been is an abstractionRemaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. T.S. Eliot, Four… Continue reading
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November Adventures 1, 2, 3
Recent musings from artist Louise Fletcher: I decided that artists can be put into two categories—and that’s daft to begin with, we know! … but we could think about people as completers or adventurers in the way that they approach their art. … For the completer, the finished product is the objective of being a… Continue reading
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Getting in (and Out of) My Own Way 3
After getting and staying in my own way and being my own obstacle, at long last I stopped fighting what was in front of me. A door to alchemy opened. A seemingly magical process of transformation and creation unfolded. Without my dukes up, perceived difficulty metamorphosed into inspiration instead, became a gift for me to… Continue reading
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Getting in My Own Way 2
Eventually I took a tiny baby step away from being frozen in place by adding color to my lines-only black-and-white-only start. All the while, though, deep down I knew (a) I was still holding tight to loving those lines, staying painstakingly and deliberately within them and (b) the only thing I was ‘letting go’ of… Continue reading
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Getting in My Own Way 1
Creating art is such a crazy proposition for me. What I actually create are problems to solve, complications to untangle, disasters to rectify, stumbling blocks to navigate. And it appears that I do so willingly, although with any one particular project it is not with that deliberate intention or mindset that I set out. Two… Continue reading
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Showcase 3
When I wake in the morning, a blank page; when I go to bed at night, paintings. Magic, I tell ya! What to notice here: A small square of gray sketch paper; areas of high flow transparent brown, yellow, and red iron oxide acrylic paint; India ink lines, marks, and asemic writing; torn bits of… Continue reading
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Showcase 2
This series of paintings represents creative energies I very much enjoy. Ninety per cent of each piece is painted in roughly 10% of the time it takes to complete the painting in its entirety, and the remaining 10% of the piece probably takes roughly 90% of the time! Both parts of the process engage and… Continue reading
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Showcase 1
You know how a band can be performing and, at some point in a piece, each musician-with-instrument gets to solo briefly and be showcased? The sketches I posted yesterday are going to get a chance to stand in the spotlight similarly, each for its few moments of fame. One detail to watch for: collage. In… 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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