Oils, Cold Wax & My Sketchbook

Today I want to share a quote by Kurt Vonnegut, that I heard in my daily mindfulness, First This.  “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”  I do have a choice of what I do with this moment! I can enjoy it or  ruminate and hold on to negative thoughts or let them go.   I take each day, moment, as it comes. Trying to enjoy it and move on to the next. Trying but not always successful! The more I do these small studies the more I like the process. Both were done with same color palette and same prompts.

My Way 11×8″ Heavy Paper 250gr Mixed Media click to enlarge After the hacking yesterday I had to get my self together and make a post. It was really scary waking up to the fact that someone got into my site and made a really crazy post with probably dangerous links. Luckily I was the only one that saw the post on the site but all got a notification. Deleted post, took him off as author, installed security plugin and made a complete scan. All OK About Art Work This is another experiment using Joan’s prompts. Basically I used 2 colors + black and white.

Sometimes there are days, that when going into the studio, you just don’t know what to do. Of course there are lots of WIPS that need attention, that will be for another day. After finding some cards that had prompts and the letters BP I finally figured that it was from an online workshop that I had taken way back in 2020 with Joan Fullerton. I recall this workshop really helped me get into the world of abstraction.  Went to my folder and I found a wealth of material. Since I am branching out into mixed media and smaller formats and sketchbooks got the idea to go back and do some of the exercises.

In my workshop with Sara Post we learned about this new drawing project run by Chole Briggs. I was a bit wary because she chooses people that are logged in, and since I have developed a phobia of cameras etc. But I did make the plunge and of course I was asked to pose, which I did. I enjoyed the session very much. Here is the fruit of my effort. These are all between 3-5 minutes, the length of a music track! At first I really didn’t like the results, was a bit tight, but relooking felt that they weren’t so bad, of course really need practice. For those on the west coast times

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