Wind Over Grass - underpainting

From Wind Over Grass, a painting

Wind Over Grass, 28"x22", 71x56cm, 2010, underpainting, on canvas.

Underpainting- an acrylic base, a chalk drawing that instead of erasing I painted over in 'Bone Black.' Difficult to photograph! Click for larger size that's easier to see (you'll go to Picasa, to the album for this painting-to-be).

                                                    

Music for Inner Journeying: 'Empreinte' by Eva Dez

Music for Inner Journeying

I found this track comforting, established in the natural world, yet moving through darkness. A flowing lyrical track, moody, dense with depth, journey into the underworld, yet a narratorial sweep carrying the composer who carries the listeners through. We think film score, amidst the strings there are audio clues, a barking dog, sounds of human voices, laughter, a journey on the river Lethe from which none turn back into the depths of our minds. Yet gentle, sensitive, a stretching of our ligaments, our muscles, as we leave one world, our world of time and duties, and enter the time of the other in Empreinte. A track that I shall listen to many times. Thank you, and encore.

direct link: Empreinte by Eva Dez

                                                    

The Lady and the Chimera

From The Lady and the Chimera

The Lady and the Chimera, 12" x 9", 30.5x23cm, oil on canvas, 2010.


fish live in a ribbon of river in the sky

nor do I sprinkle specks of strands of saffron stars

bouquets of red poppies bloom in paper ice

the soul, a chimera, who gave moments
never to erase
lived words, acts

seeing flying angels makes me laugh...
or you can delete what's in your heart

we are gifts waiting
to give
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I am really wanting to move onto something else, so am going to consider this little painting done. I have painted it with a very small palette knife, really a dental instrument, and a sable brush with about 5 hairs. The paint is very thick. It has taken far longer than I could have imagined.

The chimera is half human and half lion, yes, but originally meant to be a cuddly stuffed animal chimera. His expression is a little more lusty though, isn't it. And that hat!

I think of this as a jazz composition, a riff in paint.

                                                    

Blessings on the New Year

In the enwrapping of the solitudes of the piano trumpet and cello, deep in the ending of the year, I found an ocean of light swirling beneath my feet. Washing away what had passed. Did I mourn as the music mourned? Then the waves lightened and we saw the new day arising like a red cauldron bringing the new year.