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Seeing Red

7/9/2022

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"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.
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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.

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!
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Carl Stoveland link
7/9/2022 04:54:38 pm

Words have utterly failed me. I too have been taking refuge in the studio.

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Lola (jen)
7/9/2022 04:56:54 pm

Carl! We are kindred in our cloistering. Thank goodness for the art. It is a refuge...

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Dotty Seiter link
7/9/2022 06:55:58 pm

Well, I just enjoyed a picnic on the ride home from which our focus was looking at RED front doors. So. Seeing red, I was.

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I am pulled to the slight asymmetry of the eyes.

Those are my words for this moment.

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Lola (Jen)
7/9/2022 09:26:47 pm

Dotty! Red doors and picnics! I am gladdened to imagine you thusly. And yes, slight asymmetry. Adds a certain discomfort…

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Carol Kitchell link
7/9/2022 08:01:10 pm

Yeah, words are boiling up like lava getting ready to burst out of a volcano. They're coming fueled by frustration, rage, disgust, anxiety. Since I'm a writer by trade, the words aren't going to be mitigated by art, walks, nature, fuzzy pets.

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Lola (jen)
7/9/2022 09:39:31 pm

Carol! I am so grateful for your boiling up words…because I know that when they emerge, they will resonate with people like me. And I’ll be nodding my head and thinking “wow - she found just the right words!” Xo

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Trona
7/10/2022 08:42:06 am

After reading social media for ten minutes I’m exhausted from all the negative comments, anger and frustration. I want to take your morning walk, your mountain climb and here of your happy heart. It makes me smile and happy for my friend who has been through some real shit to get to this point.
Thanks for lightening the load and not adding to it ❤️

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Lola (jen)
7/10/2022 03:35:19 pm

Trina! It is exhausting to read and process all the emotions of others, let alone our own. Finding solace in the things we can matter. And, eventually, I hope to find the words to express what I'm thinking and feeling on all these things without making the load any heavier. xo

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Carol Edan link
7/15/2022 03:18:43 am

Words has always been my problem, they don't really express what I want. Blogs and blogging have certainly been on the back burner. Rather paint, or nap or swim and now early morning walks. Wish I had the cool mountain streams and views. Those eyes are really piercing, telling me some secret or not! That red demands attention!

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lola (jen)
7/16/2022 03:58:47 pm

Carol!! Paint, nap, SWIM! And early morning walks....the perfect antidote for wordlessness.

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