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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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