These two works-in-progress have been in or around my easel for a few weeks now (the lotus flower - a few months) and today I'm clearing them off and putting them aside to make way for the painting class I'm starting tomorrow with Flora Bowley. I've been wanting to attend an art retreat with Flora but it's so challenging to travel far from home (I don't like flying - especially with art supplies - so much better to pack up the car and go, I don't want to be away from my family, and it's expensive). An e-course though? Perfect! I feel like its my birthday with this class starting tomorrow (though my actual birthday is only less than two months away. Mark your calendars! ;)).
I'm wait with great anticipation to break into another big canvas or two!
The painting on the easel is 30"x30". It's bright and colorful, drippy and free-flowing. But I didn't know where to go with it next. I turned it all around and there were parts that I loved and didn't want to alter and then there were places that I did want to change but thought that if I changed those the parts that I liked would be affected by the change too and so I backed off, did nothing, and got stuck in a big way. I'm hoping that this class will open things up and let me release myself from what's on the canvas. Let go more... Detach from it so that I can be more open to the unfolding of possibility.
Oh and here's a peak at where I've hidden/stored the large canvases... Basically I've put them where ever I can stuff them! Heeheee. Against the wall near a corner in our guest room and beneath my work surface in my studio. I tried putting them in the closet where I keep my other smaller canvases and painting surfaces (cardboard, wood, hardboard panels) to no avail. The shelving in there just wasn't meant to hold 48" canvases!
Unrelated, but I feel compelled to note on this Sunday... This is the first Sunday that I haven't been STS strength training at this very time. It feels weird. Like I'm missing something. Like something is off. Maybe I should go put on that Zumba intro DVD that my friend loaned me just to get moving and to spend time in my exercise space! Yes, I think I will go do just that!!
Happy (Superbowl) Sunday!! Go Giants (for you, Burt)!
(Though the Patriots do have two former Gators on their team. Just sayin'.)






