Seeing Red

"Seeing Red" - acrylic and oil on Arches 300 lb paper, 22 x 30.  Available here and at Artfinder.

"Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum."
- Derek Jarman.

Blog and blogger have been on an unintended hiatus.

My words have been stewing, mulling, fermenting, even as the studio is overwhelmed with paintings in progress.  The world has given me (and all of us) much to process in recent weeks, and it seems it is taking me a bit of time to sort it out.  I'm not there yet.  

So I take solace in the art, in the forest, on the mountain, near the ocean.  Solace in the morning walks, solace in afternoon naps and in watching bees and ogling flowers.  Solace in our sanctuary (home) and pooches and kindness and love.  Solace in books and breezes and blowing bubbles.

Seeing Red

And while my thoughts are fermenting, the art is expanding.  A new show is coming (shhhhhhhh!  It's a little secret!  Details soon!) and it's pushing me in the studio.   If you'd like to be notified when the show begins, subscribe (in the column on the right) and you'll get a little notice in your in-box. :). 

If you've also been struggling for words lately, leave a little comment below.  Maybe we can all help each other figure out exactly what words might  be best right now.

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About the art:  beginning with untreated Arches watercolor paper and sketching with charcoal, then blending in acrylic paint to form the structure of the portrait and basic values and colors.  Using rubber wedge and large brushes, going over the acrylic with oil paint and allowing it to move and slide and blend.  I'm delighted to be working in oils again!