Remember a very peaceful red/blue-green piece I was working on a few weeks ago? Well, I decided it was too one-dimensional… so I painted a very diluted layer of black paint on it. I like layers. It still wasn’t done, so I rolled some white gesso over the black paint. Too much white streaks..still wasn’t done and didn’t have a name either. I got out the paintstiks and brought some color back in over those two layers…AND got a name! Now it’s finished and ready for the Arts Council exhibit.
Weathered Places
I have to say, after working on this piece, Linda and Laura Kemshall’s practice of working everything out on paper first makes a ton of sense. It got pretty scary adding subsequent layers to this piece after all the quilting was done. I knew it wasn’t done, so I took the plunge, but it did almost take my breath away and make my heart race. I haven’t developed the practice of planning ahead of time…that just doesn’t seem to be the way I ‘m working right now, but sometimes I felt like I just had a very close call…