I think I just "came to!" I have ignored this blog - not on purpose...just not in the right 'head space.'
Looking back at my calendar since the end of July - my last post - there is nothing remarkable about it. I think it's just that i haven't been doing much art. Nothing to show for the past few months.
I do have two pieces of artwork in local exhibits right now though. The Academy Art Museum in Easton has an annual Members Exhibit. Anyone who belongs to the museum is allowed to enter something that they have created in the past year. Most of what I have been doing has been a part of my Expressive Journal, so I framed two pages in a single mat and entered it. The show runs through most of November. I have not seen it yet. I was unable to attend the opening celebration, but hope tp get there next week.
This is what I entered. It is actually two separate pages that I redid and then put them in a single frame.
I have been trying to be transparent about this grieving thing. the comments I have gotten have been so positive. It seems to have been helpful to a lot of people.
The St. Michaels Art League also has an exhibit hanging this month. We are on the gallery wall of the local library. The theme of this show is "Capturing Autumn." We were a little late getting this show going - no one had signed up tp chair it, so I jumped in at the last minute. It has been good for me to begin to get involved in art again!
I am still not excited about 'going back' to painting like I did before, so I wanted to try something different. This painting is a watercolor done on Yupo paper. Yupo is a 'plastic' paper that doesn't absorb the paint like regular watercolor paper does.
Capturing Autumn seemed to call for lots of red, orange, yellow with a few darks. I got out my Yupo and paints. Lots of water and color and 'slopped it around on the paper. What fun!
