The Power of Your Presence

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"The Power of Your Presence" - oil on crescent board, 14 x 11.  Available here and at Artfinder.

Once you realize the power of your tongue, you won't say just anything.
When you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't entertain just anything.
And once you realize the power of your presence, you won't be just anywhere.

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A wee little break from outer space in the studio, as a series of portraits decided to be interspersed amongst the intergalactic wanderers.

The end of the year is drawing near, and I don't know about you, dear reader, but I find myself both reflecting one the old year and getting ready for the new one.

The Power of Your Presence

In the studio, that continues to look like buckets of gesso.

Painting over old work, creating backgrounds for new.  The more I paint over, the more I want to paint over.  You creatives may understand this - the weight of old work.  Don't get me wrong, I am proud of what I've created and shared over the years, but the feeling of old paintings around is like a dress with the tags still on it from three years ago - it's time to make room for things that SING, both in my gallery of work and in my wardrobe. :)

Most of the pieces being painted over get a little time-lapse video posted over on my instagram feed.  Today's piece is painted on top of one of those gesso'd pieces.  Already building the foundations of 2023.  Oh yeah!

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About the art:  beginning with a rough portrait sketch in colored pencil and jumping off with a limited palette of colors in oils.  Embracing the way oil paint moves under the rubber wedge and exposing sub-layers with it.  As always, resisting the urge for perfection and allowing texture and peculiarity to emerge.

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