I managed just one watercolor on my week of vacation. There has been a lot going on in my life, and I hadn’t realized how exhausted I was, until I arrived and settled in to our cabin. So I gave myself a break, from doing anything that felt even slightly like an obligation. No regrets.
I will likely be away from the computer for most of the coming week. There may or may not be lake vacation watercolors on the return side, or there may be more angsty, messy jobs. Who can tell.
today I can’t even. so for now I’m just not.
some days life comes at you like a tsunami. I’m just sitting here in the flooded aftermath. It’s not so bad, things are looking up.
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This will be the last day I post this painting. I may touch him up some, but I don’t think there will be any substantial changes.
It has been really good to work on this absorbing geometry to calm and soothe my mind over the past week.
I pretty much just tidied up the line-work, so it doesn’t look very different today. But a couple people have asked, so here’s the photo that inspired the painting. It’s from an old National Geographic magazine. I’m not so happy with my rendering of the face, but really I was just looking for a framework for meditative pattern work. The pattern I used is based on Celtic manuscript decoration although I love the ones on the robe and background in the photo.
The caption: “The patterns on the robe of Peruvian healer Enrique Flores Agustin represent songs he sings during curing ceremonies. … Ancient or modern, the theater of healing works by creating strong expectations in the brain.”
this guy again
Tired of this guy yet? I probably have a couple more days of working on him. Not quite happy with the colors, and want to tidy it up. Not working on anything else for now.
I think the next post will have some colors.
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