this is what happened on an evening when I had absolutely nothing in mind for inspiration, and felt like even making yet another art on paper was a pointless waste of time. So I just started a doodle to amuse myself. First came the big eye/fish shapes in the background, then this little being emerged, maybe an emissary from an inner critic? I mean, who is really watching anyway?
I had moomintroll in my mind, but what came out was these fat caterpillars
Also, here’s the complete set of May Artist Trading Cards, arranged in order of the original painting
The six collages that I have been working to show as a group are ready to hang! I will post on all my socials when they actually make it into the gallery. In any case, they will be on display by Friday May 3, which is the first Brattleboro Gallery Walk of the season – an event well worth attending!
Here are some of my favorites that I don’t have ready to hang and show yet. I’m putting them away now, to await their turn.
a fast watery one
plus progress on framing collages: tow out of six, ready to hang
Aside from the daily art I post here, I am working on getting some of my collages in shape to show in my space at the Harmony Collective Artist Gallery. I have a show in a larger space in June, and I’d hoped to show collages there, but the curator requested other work. So there’s not as much space as I’d hoped, for showing the larger group collages. But I have plenty of smaller ones, that will fit in my 6′ of wall space in the collective gallery.
Here’s a preview of what I’m working on.
I’ve been playing with water soluble crayons and acrylic medium, which gets some fun, paint-like effects, different from using them with plain water.
I did some color balancing on the viney cat, and added butterfly and more patterns on the liney one. No separate daily drawing today, so this will have to do!
I am choosing to occasionally take a day off – an option I didn’t allow myself for years when I started this project. Really, I am again trying to make more time to tackle bigger projects and finish up other ones. The collages are still out on my worktable; I am figuring out ways of framing them up to display at the Harmony Collective gallery in the next month or two.
Just so you can have a picture, here’s a little mockup that I thought might make a nice little t-shirt or something, with some cats I painted last year.
I am still struggling with adjusting to the clock change (don’t get me started ranting about how stupid the twice-annual imposed ritual is!). I went to a lovely pub sing, far out in the Massachusetts hilltowns after work this day, and had a sweet visit with some old friends who used to be closer neighbors before I moved to Vermont. I got back home at nearly 11:00 New Time, and rather than check in to the studio, decided to go straight to bed in hopes of readjusting my personal clock toward getting up earlier in the morning. It sort of worked, I’ll try again tonight.
smooshed rocks.
Just fyi, all my daily art is on 9″ x 12″ stonehenge paper. I settled on that as a manageable size and sufficiently versatile weight and texture of paper, years ago. So that’s one variable off the table when I sit down to play.
Here’s a quick goofy one. The base picture was an arresting image of a fellow in mask and body paint. The feet belong to the nuns that were in day-before-yesterday’s post. The doily and sculpture were to bring the colorway together. Unlike yesterday, I did not then spend a lot of time adding little bits in hopes of making the whole thing more interesting. Part of my challenge is knowing when to quit.
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