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Start Close In

2/22/2021

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"Start Close In" - acrylic on repurposed board, 11" x 26" x .75".  Ready to hang (sides are painting; no need to frame.  Hanging wire is attached)  Available here and at Artfinder.

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.


Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way to begin
the conversation.
from "Start Close In" by David Whyte
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Start Close In
This piece wasn't exactly supposed to happen.

​It began as a paint throwing (splattering, spreading, spraying, playing) experiment and then, as it tends to be, I saw a face in the paint.  A form, a pose,  a shape.  Honestly, one of a number of life drawing pose pics I've been contemplating was stuck in my head.  So I grabbed the paint (and not the camera, dang it) and just kept going.  

There is something about vulnerability in a male face, gesture, body, pose - that strength and softness in one that speaks to this tender hearted artist in loud voices that say PAINT ME.  And so, I did. :)
A pictorial history of the painting:
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4 Comments
Dotty Seiter link
2/22/2021 09:12:33 am

Two magnetic pulls:

• the shoulders turning in one direction, the face in the other; I can FEEL the twist in my body. In fact, my body keeps shifting to mimic the pose.

• the scrape of glazed color across the lower third of the board; brilliant!

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jen
2/22/2021 12:07:44 pm

Dotty! Figure painting poses = art yoga? Thank you for your comments on this one....he was quite a surprise! The scrape of glaze - it set everything right. I love it when paint does that. :)

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Carl Stoveland
2/22/2021 09:19:01 am

Amazing how your paintings develop. Very cool to see and read about!

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jen
2/22/2021 12:08:27 pm

Carl! Thank you! Sometimes they have a mind of their own...

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