You may have been wondering where the abstracts have been lately. They were all tied up in this one BIG piece, which asked for weeks of work and layers (and layers and LAYERS) of paint. A departure from my more usual abstract style, but I am just tickled with it. Perhaps I've been watching too many of Brian Rutenbergs studio videos on YouTube - his works are huge! The satisfaction of laying down thick layers of paint with a massive rubber wedge and brush is pretty big, too. And carving back through thick paint with a chopstick is mmmmmmm good. This piece is part of my annual painting murder season, where a dozen or so paintings are destroyed, gesso'd and/or painted over to clear away the old and make room for the new. For this one, I flipped it and drew the new design right on top of the acrylic underpainting using a UniPosca paint pen, then commenced with the layers of oil paint. A complete transformation, I'd say! A big welcome to the new blog readers and subscribers from Bluesky! Hooray! Your presence here makes this an even better place to be. :)
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1/13/2025 02:32:00 pm
You are so right. Time spent chasing the AI Pop Culture youth as beauty idea gets in the way of living a full life. All that stuff is part of a machine to make you by stuff you don’t need. Laugh lines and wrinkles and all that are proof of a life well lived.
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lola
1/13/2025 02:55:43 pm
Carl!!! The machine! You're spot on! And it is effective, warping our self-perceptions and adding to self-criticism. Proof of a life well-lived! YES! xo
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dotty seiter
1/13/2025 08:34:16 pm
Lola! Oh my gosh! The transformation! The sediment of murder season intertwined with the energy and open-hearted positive accepting celebrating loving self-dialogue of you-62! HUZZAH!
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lola
1/14/2025 04:14:13 pm
Dotty!!!! Your comments always make me grin! Thanks, friend! I take great delight in murdering old pieces, because you just never know what will emerge on top of them! xo
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