Follow your bliss...: Mixed Medium Experimentation

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Mixed Medium Experimentation

This is the fun stuff that I've made lately...started with white acrylic paint slathered on bristol paper leaving behind brush marks and ridges, then I scribbled over it after it dried with the tinted graphite pencils that I adore so much, drenched them with water and squished the brush around to make bubbles, swirls, and other such textures, allowing it to pool and make it's own tide lines...then I let it set up a bit to the almost but not quite dry, and splattered some acrylic and watercolor...let it dry...

I contemplated drawing on them, but left them alone...I didn't want to do anything more with them, I just have enough fun looking at them as is...there's nothing wrong with that, not everything has to be finished...

Mixed medium experimentation...oh, my goodness, it's always a pleasure!

I will be participating in a group exhibition this summer at the Contemporary Gallery, 230 Harrison Street, Syracuse New York...please click their link for more information about the conception of the gallery, ongoing events, and gallery hours!

1 comment:

Robin said...: What fun! Lovely, Laura. You make me want to play! (With paint, I mean.) Thanks for sharing your work.

xoxo; 9:35 AM

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.