Lost my ability to paint some where in Colorado.

Sensory Pillow, mixed media on board, 18"x24"

I have spent this week in the studio wrestling with two paintings and my new web site. I have two weeks before my old web site expires to make a new one. There's a blog on the web site so in two weeks look for a link to the fabulous new site where I'll continue to blog and let blogspot go.

This painting was a lesson in humility. I'm not sure why not but the materials weren't behaving as they should, I couldn't create any interesting shapes and I was feeling pretty frustrated. Of course, everything finally came together when I had the balls to eliminate the extraneous marks that weren't doing anyone any good. I swear, every time I used that chocolatey brown I could smell good Belgium chocolate. Man, I miss chocolate. It's probably a good thing that I can't eat any because I had no other avenue to deal with the feelings of failure but to keep at the painting until I could paint my way out of the corner I was hiding in.