Follow your bliss...: A painting for the Solstice...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

A painting for the Solstice...

Winter Solstice Time, December 19, 2010, acrylic wash, with monotype, sumi paper on canvas 40 x 16 inches

Starting point on November 6, 2010

Stage 2, 11/28/2010

Detail from 11/28/2010

Stage 3 on 12/11/2010

Detail from 12/11/2010

If anything, I'm persistent...in spite of FMS flare-ups that have been troublesome for several weeks now, I've pulled it together enough to keep painting even when I have disasters like today when I spilled my water jar full of blue water and it soaked poor Max while he was napping! (He's already forgiven me, we took a long walk around the acre after he dried off for a good sniff around.) My hands are not cooperating as well lately. There are lots of layers, and lots of doubts about where I was going with this (did I really want to cover all that up?) Well, it's done what I've wanted to do, I kept it simple and pale like the slice of the sky that is turquoise in the late afternoon on a winter day. I love the subtle details that are happening, the glow of the warm tones underneath showing through. Pretty stuff.

6 comments:

Julie Prichard said...: Beautiful painting! I think it's perfect!; 9:45 PM
Ian Foster said...: A fantastic painting, I love it and thank you for showing us its progress. Bravo!!; 3:10 AM
Seth said...: Wonderful painting. And so great to see how it developed!; 10:21 PM
Evangeline said...: This is stunning! And so inspiring and instructive to see your process. Thanks for sharing it.
And happy Solstice to you!; 9:33 AM
Judith Westerfield said...: I found your blogs through your comment on Rose's "Equilibrium" blog.
And when I found you were a writer and an artist, had fibro AND your dog's name is MAX . . . !!!!!

I would love to include your blogs in my list of blogs and occasionally post your work. (I love to share what other people create).

Wanted to check with you first, to make sure you are okay with this. My blog is: http://JudithWesterfield.wordpress.com. (creativitytotheMAX, the blog)

I'm not an artist but adore art and was an English Lit major. My blog is about creative expression, my own journey with fibro and MAX my dog.; 10:05 PM
Shelley Whiting's art said...: I love the silence of your work and the mystical energy in it. Wonderful art.; 1:12 PM

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.