recepticles

I've been pondering how much I love the shape and fullness of vases or containers of any kind, so decided go for it yesterday. I took some pieces (one of them the work in process from the last post) that felt like they might work in this new vein. I'm going to sit with them for a while as I feel something coming about the fertile fullness of the shapes.

May swirls and gestures

I'm still working on this piece-in some form. I find it really interesting when an artist posts the process of a piece so that's what I'm going to do here. I can already feel the next step. What I like the most are the layers and what's seen beneath. Let's see what happens!

works from the end of April

This top piece is a larger work-18 x 24- that I made this week. I'm really happy with it and feel all kinds of next steps. I've used charcoal, pencils, pastels, acrylic paint and my hands. It's an outgrowth of the quick, smaller, idea sketches you see below. The sketches get the work flowing like playing in a sandbox-no constraints, just kid's play. I'm working with a couple of things: expressive gesture and movement and what's expressed with the different line types and then what emerges as I make layer upon layer of color and texture and gesture. I especially like the expansive swirls that feel so playful and freeing. There's something really important and exciting about this non-verbal language I'm exploring and I love getting my hands messy!


I call this piece "Fertility".

Nothing much was happening with this sketch until as an impulse, I did the two final dark curvy lines. Loved the movement and rhthym they brought. A friend picked up on that and said she wanted to see it big! The painting above was born.