Who am I kidding?

The plan was to set up my own website and have my blog be a part of that so that I'm not having to go all over the web to get to the folks interested in my but I've been chewing my nails over having to do it. So I have a new plan to get some computer education under my belt. That's for after X-mas vacation.

Meanwhile this painting has been kicking my ass. Today I came into the studio and established who's boss. Me. I had tried an new trick on the previous paintings and it worked once but then never again. I used zinc white to get coverage in between the see through colors and the opacity of the other white, whatever it's called. Zinc dries too fast, I think so that I had difficulty wiping it off. I used my crutch color combo, blue and yellow, on this painting until I get my confidence back.

Hopefully, I haven't totally lost my audience. Happy Holidays, everyone.

I'm back!

It feels great to be back to work after a fun summer. I'm going to just make a quick post today but will have lots of interesting stuff to say in my following posts. I painted four paintings today with varying degrees of success.

What do you think about.

Someone asked me what I do I think about when I paint a painting. I said that I think about creating a world that I would like to inhabit. No, this is not a landscape of some frightening planet swirling with inimical life. I am interested in a world that appeals both to my senses and to my intellect. I enjoy the way people can reveal unconsciously in their actions, things that they would prefer to remain hidden from view. Simultaneously, you can never really know someone because we are all isolated in our heads.

I can remember years ago asking a male friend, 'what are you thinking about?' 'Nuthin' ' was the response. I felt frustrated but at the same time I had to acknowledge the silliness of the question. I mean, really, what did I expect him to say?

I have not been as present in the blog or studio as I might be, but hey, it's a beautiful summer. I spent last weekend in Victoria with my family. The whole world was there. I swear that I saw a minor tv star in the  crowds. We went to tea, had a ride on a double decker bus and went for a lovely bike ride. Hope your summer is a pleasant.

An Improvement, I hope.

This post has been doomed from the start. I wanted to show how the painting looks now after I adjusted it this morning but the light didn't cooperate. Now I've freaked out blogspot. Anyway, here it is. Now it looks like a ship at sea and no, that's not what I'm going to call it. I must stop futzing around and print up my labels. See you at Art Walk.

What's in a name?

It takes as long to name a painting, for me,  as it does to paint the thing and I don't have nearly as much fun doing it. What I want to express is pre-verbal. All my senses are involved in understanding the world around me and it's harder to put words to a gut level comprehension.

What if, as we move through spacetime, we cause ripples the way a heavy body bends spacetime. As I paint, I move around and time passes, and what I've done and thought before this moment affects this moment now. That's a lot of freight and maybe we can feel the displacement. Now, how do I get a title out of that muck?

I'm using a physics term in another discipline because time is thought of as universal and constant but when I'm painting my life experiences are part of the process creating a little wrap around my easel.

I'm not going to title this new painting right away, until I think of something pertinent. So for Art Walk this Friday I'll leave it untitled. Wouldn't it be neat if someone read this blog and came into the show to make some suggestions or start a discussion about these issues? Yes it would.