This morning I set outside under the metal gazebo, checking my emails and the to do list for the day.
I get up early in the morning to do my pages and listen to the awakening sounds. The cardinal starts off then it's the robin and the flickers in the large cottonwood tree. Other morning the sounds of the night herons can be heard.
I pulled this collage up from the files because I do like it. Gratefully I'm able to share the image as the piece has been sold. Here is the description
#021020-TDT,
"Press Pause” 12 x 12 Collage on Wood Panel, Ready to hang on your wall.
Materials
Used: Wood panel, Gloss medium, Nevr Dull
magazine paper, sanded magazine paper, acrylic paints, Image transfer of
Ukrainian words, Image transfer silhouette of a woman in pants suit, waxed book
thread sewn through wood panel, wax crayons used for line energy. glazing with acrylic, sealed with a layer of
UV satin varnished.
Meaning
behind the art: As in many of our lives we are
smacked hard with a sudden moment of loss, grief and or death. Are we every
prepared for it? I know my heart would
want to hit the pause button, and fast so that I don’t have to really feel what
is happening. Love comes in many forms and if you’re in one of these moments,
mending our hurt hearts is never a straight shot. The need to press the pause
button in our lives so that we can feel means it’s real, our love that is…allow
the mending to take whatever path it needs; we will be better for it.
As my own inspiration, I begin the day....I question does the melancholy feed the creative spirit ? I do know that stronger emotions are the ones of great loss in some form so to pause and feel them and then reveal them as in a piece of artwork is so very memorable.
So I'm sharing here so that the newsletter isn't to long and I can add some pictures and share what's happening in the studio. The piece above had been finished now for a few weeks. I was done on Watercolor paper but I'm going to fuse it on to a Wood Panel. I don't have a title for it at this point but will soon.
Here is a play of ideas that I'm looking to see where it leads and what I want to do is waste time and video and record it too. Possibilities for a little course. I keep saving small boxes so I can tear up the top layer to expose the corrugated cardboard.
Soon the Class at Naperville be here and I want to do a bit of promoting about that Concertina Sketchbook... This one is a little 4 x 4 size. And the left over paper that can be used inside the sketchbook.
But before I shot any videos about that stuff above I've got to finish this one for the Tack Down Tuesday Course I want to put together. Here the image is the beginning paper fused down and next the glazing and shadowing...plus more being videos.
Many project stirring on the table right?
The last few weeks I've been sitting down in front of the TV watching something on Netflix to unwind and let go of the days happenings and events. Working in my sketchbook I create a few little collage sketches. Collage Meditation is a great online class at
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