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When Love Awakens

5/18/2020

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​"When Love Awakens - mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 20" x 20" x 1.25".  Ready to hang.  Available here and at Artfinder.

When love awakens in your life, in the  night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.  Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self.  When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.  JOHN O'DONOHUE,  ​Anam Cara

The world is awakening...shops carefully opening, people venturing out.  Different paces in different places. If I set aside the worry monster (mine is rather gnarly and vocal), I can make a space to wonder if this is a rebirth for the way we all live together...I can see that love has awakened in our local community.  It makes me smile.
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When Love Awakens
In the studio, week two of the e-course with Pauline Agnew awakened a love of new color palettes, new ways of seeing light and a courage to try even more outrageous things in the pursuit of art.  We aren't yet "elegant and in rhythm with our selves", but we are doggedly determined to make each lesson stick.  

In the park last week, we watched a mother swinging her child around and around in that helicopter way we used to swing our own children, recalling fondly the contagious laughter and the word "again!  again!" which all children know is the universal signal for halcyon glee.  As this painting emerged last week, my painter spirit whispered again again​ to the muse.
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Something is brewing with this gang of goofballs....

About the painting:  an archeologist would have a good long dig excavating this piece! Watercolor crayon, acrylic, gesso, artgraf and many, many layers of glaze.  I'm getting better and scribbling over a painting before I head to bed, then waking up and saying "oh!" and finding something wonderful in the scribbles.

Malarkey and shenanigans are multiplying mightily in a new collaboration with the rascals featured in the image to the left. One week from today, something, well, something​ will be revealed.  (tiptoes away giggling behind her hands)

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Carl Stoveland
5/18/2020 01:50:55 pm

Great post from the sentiments to the painting to the O’Donohue quote!

And whatever could the surprise be??? Tee Hee! Fans will just have to wait and see.

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jen
5/18/2020 06:50:04 pm

Carl! My co-conspirator! O' Donohue always gets me right in the gut. So spot on.

And holy macaroni there is MALARKEY AFOOT!

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Dotty Seiter link
5/18/2020 02:57:23 pm

Jen, I am quite taken with your new color palette here! Brava! Might be the spark that gets me out of the messy middle of a current WIP of mine.

Hmm, spark may not le mot juste here … maybe this instead:

Your new color palette might be the muted hush that softly leads me out of a messy middle.

In any case: gratitude! and awe at your art adventures! and anticipation of upcoming malarkey and shenanigans!

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jen
5/18/2020 06:51:19 pm

Dotty! Muted hushes from messy middles. So happy these colors reached out and tapped your shoulder. They are my current blissful hangout place.

And OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOODNESS! We are up to something OUTRAGEOUS!

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Carol Edan link
5/19/2020 01:07:16 pm

I do see some muted tones and high chroma scribbles of your usual palette peeking through.... can't fool me! But those grays really set them off. Beautiful pathway or bubbling river surrounded by high cliffs! Can't wait to hear the news!

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jen
5/19/2020 02:26:26 pm

Carol! Ha! There is no fooling you, indeed. Isn't it odd how we reach for the same colors again and again? At least this month I am adding some new ones. Grays make everything better...you are the QUEEN of muted grays and soft, chalky palettes!

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