I really do love the season of Solstice/Yule/Christmas/New Year, but there’s always a component of stress. And this year the isolation is giving me a really good look at all that. Because, not enough singing, dancing and eating together, not enough hugs. I hope everyone is getting through it all OK, but clearly a lot of people will be having a hard, sad time.
Sometimes I just make myself a coloring page. And then sometimes I don’t have time to finish coloring it. But then I look at it later and think that maybe it’s fine just as it is.
ritual incantation for clearing of the waters
I don’t know what happened with the scanner, there’s a significant color shift on this. The dark blue is actually much purpler, the red is more orange and contrasts strongly with the dark red details. Maybe I need to do some calibration, but anyway you get the general idea.
Sometimes a drawing or painting just won’t work, and I don’t have the patience to pull anything satisfying out of it. So for today. Muddy colors, marks increasing in impatience with each added layer. I would be embarrassed to show this to anyone, but the ‘rules’ of my daily practice say I show whatever I did in my studio time. So let this please be encouragement for you to not get hung up on perfection every time, to sometimes just go ahead and make a mess, and let that be your practice for that day. There will be other days. And who’s to say I didn’t learn anything by letting myself fail?
Confession: I got a free tube of dioxizine purple acrylic paint, which is quite large and also not great quality. But my thrifty yankee nature requires me to use it (not a huge hardship, since I actually like purple quite a lot) That explains why so many recent paintings have heavily featured purple and blue. I don’t apologize! It’s all a learning experience. Anyhow, here are some nice jellyfish for you to look at. And some kind of eggy things.
eyespider 