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Title:
Window Through
Time
About this Painting:Created Fall Semester at Manchester Community College, 2004 Painting's Message:Just keep pedaling. You are aiming and on target, hitting the bull's eye. Just keep following my clues and painting what you see next. That's life, one step at a time, creating in the moment, in Real Time. Sometimes you can only see one next step. Just keep steppin'!
Sketch Book Entry10-22-0422nd Marriage anniversary today. Abstract painting -- The Pleasure Painting Project #2 Rick told me to stop paining on the 1st one (Magic Mountain painting) and begin a 2nd. I really was not finished and was feeling in the flow with it. Nonetheless, I stopped and began a 2nd. I will continue the 1st one -- it holds intrigue for me. This 2nd painting seems to have extracted qualities from Beth's Bull painting (Beth is a fellow painting student who is painting beside me in the studio) -- colors: brown, black, gold, gray, and the head and eye and horn shapes have come in, in an abstract way. It also has a lunar quality -- a moon and crescent moon shapes. The blue on bottom left corner -- I keep thinking it needs to be green to give the illusion of another triangle. On the other hand, it forms a water pool with the two arcs of brown, black. I will try to lift the blue off and paint green and see what happens. Could not lift the blue so I applied the green over it, what a luscious color. The moon shape in upper right took on its shape and looks like a hose from Heaven piping in energy. It also reminds me of my "volume" shape drawings. Now what? The crescent shape / form is calling ... This painting is coming together, piece by piece leading me to the next, the crescent shape led me to the corral piece lower right. Where do I go from here? This is a very strange painting? Is it pleasurable? Yes. The paint is blending pleasingly today. The shapes have taken form in odd ways. It has a Salvador Dali feeling to it. It has a life all its own, for sure. I'm tired and can't get -- stay in pleasure with it, so that's it for today? The green -- what is it? I like the brown just as is, and the gray, places around the crescent need to be dealt with. Does the black lower left corner need to extend over the blue like the black above it? Too predictable? 10-25-04Something is emerging around the shape mid-left (just typed mid-life -- interesting!). Looks like a mask, or goggle, deep sea diving goggle, ski goggle, a seeing apparatus of some sort. Now it is sitting on a table or shelf with feather cloth underneath a bulls eye? I see a triangular shape that it is sitting on. Painting's name: Bull's EyePainting's Message:Just keep pedaling. You are aiming and on target, hitting the bull's eye. Just keep following my clues and painting what you see next. That's life, one step at a time, creating in the moment, in Real Time. Sometimes you can only see one step next step. Just keep steppin'! Ending entry for the day:A Very Strange Painting! Am I in pleasure with it? Not sure! Yes and no. My stomach is flipping uncomfortably -- apprehensively and knowing, expectantly, that more is to come. I think this part is done. Looks like a boat or a fairy tale shoe. Oct. 26Where does this painting want to go? Beth says it's done. The gray and brown background areas have only their 1st layer of paint. Midnight blue sky, green grass, wood table / ground. Rick says this painting is immature and incomplete -- Yikes! He says the colors are reading as if they are straight from the tube. Today, May 16, 2005It began as a very dark painting, see the in-process photos. The final painting is not pictured here as I never took another photo of it upon completion. It changed a little bit for the better after the photo that you see at left. My art professor, Rick Harden, had given me a painting left over from last semester students. The painting was that of a woman with her heart on the outside of her chest. I worked at blocking the painting out with coats of gesso and coarse pumice gel. I felt somewhat haunted by her as I worked on this paining which was supposed to be about tapping into the pleasure of the painting process. The brown figures in the center which are sitting on the table top are covering the woman's heart. The texture had been built up pretty severely by the previous painter and these figures evolved as I tried to work with the texture that was remaining. At about the 3/4 mark of completion, I was deeply frustrated because it was the night before our critique and the painting was not coming together fully. Finally, Rick mentioned (after the remark of the painting being immature) that that the images needed an environment. That's when the mountains appeared and saved the day! The sky became light sky blue as opposed to dark blue with black streaks. It's a strange painting and yet it is magical too. What is this painting all about? What are those images that showed up? How do they relate to one another? Where are they located? Where is this world that they inhabit? To me, the lower right hand image is a window; thus, the title, Window Through Time. When I look at this painting, I feel like I am looking through a window through time. This is a painting that needs to be seen in person to be really appreciated. Rick told me a story of how he came in one day and saw this painting which I had hung up in the hallway. He said he had to move back from it because its power just hit him. The painting and creative process can be quite remarkable when we just follow what beckons. We answer the call and become amazed by what shows up because it is so much more than we could ever have imagined to create. Enjoy. THE END Please let us know what your thoughts are on this drawing or anything that you read here. Post your comments.
Posted: May 16, 2005 © 2005 Mary A. Gravelle THE END
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