Tag Archives: color
365, Day 146: Trusting the Process
I am on fall break. Which means, of course, that I have even more stuff that needs doing than usual. The day I painted this piece was one of those days where I didn’t want to paint, didn’t feel like … Continue reading
365, Day 144: What Dreams May Come
On this date, one year ago, two friends died in a terrible car crash. This week, I learned that one of the assistant directors for the opera company I worked with in the summer lost her husband in a terrible … Continue reading
365, Day 143: Color and Imagination
It’s interesting for me when paintings like this happen and I am reminded that, even though I “know” there are certain colors in the landscape it is often true that there are times when the world around me can be … Continue reading
365, Day 132: Fog
Sometimes it seems the solidity and crisp edges of my world get lost in a bank of fog. Sometimes I can disperse the fog myself. Sometimes the cloud refuses to lift. Or, perhaps I should say it chooses to lift … Continue reading
365, Day 126: Test of Fire
We’re not there yet but I love the fall season and the glorious colors that are revealed as fall deepens and the foliage changes color. Sometimes it seems like the trees are on fire. Fire tests. Out of fire the … Continue reading
365, Day 99: The Moon
“Fears and anxieties, believing illusions, experiencing distortion and chasing after fantasy, dreams and visions, disorientation.” ~ Shadowscapes Tarot, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law Recurring theme, recurring image. One of the reasons I appreciate working with my Tarot cards and with images in … Continue reading
365, Day 95: On Edge
This piece has the feel of looking at a slice of agate or of a geode. The guiding energy this morning was the rich green-blues. The trees that appeared in this landscape are not my usual evergreen trees. Someone has … Continue reading
365, Day 94: The Same, Only Different
There are days where I could swear I know the place that appears in the painting. This is one such, somehow familiar and strangely different. A Jungian friend recently told me that these little paintings are like condensed dream images … Continue reading
365, Day 93: Sky on Fire
I drove across the Illinois countryside last night at sunset with a friend watching the fire in the sky highlight evening storm clouds and spill out across the corn and soybean fields around us. It was a spectacular sunset which … Continue reading
365, Day 92: Dancing the Blues
I am in the middle of a “theme & variation” phase in which these trees and, to a certain extent, the birds will not leave me alone. I wonder, sometimes, as I sit down to paint and the trees begin … Continue reading
The Re-Enchanted Life 