News — Process

Clearly my goal for October is to use ALL the yellow paint.

Today was a start-from-absolute-scratch day. I very much need to prep a bunch of pieces this weekend. My process is a constant back and forth, and I found that trying to focus only one one piece (with no other pieces to switch to when I needed a break) difficult.

Here's the owl evolution. I really just want to call it an owlvolution...but I won't. Maybe. I started the day planning to work on a completely different owl but this one called to be completed. What I love about this owl is how different she started. The initial idea is very different from how she turned out.  Those surprises make me like her even more.

Beginning Plan.

Trying to figure out what color to make her stomach so that it doesn't draw all the attention.

Eye problem: Solved.

Final owl with flowers and all.

Sometimes you have to spread out all of your painted papers and get them into the right color families. Time to listen to aaaall the podcasts.

This is sort of what the entire house looks like when my husband leaves on work trips.

First off, happy one month art-full-time-iversary! Remember a few weeks ago when I got all excited about a theme for the PDXtraordinary show? Between then and now there's been a fair amount of deliberation in my studio about how to approach it. Today I tried beetles. Well, technically I've been doing beetles for awhile, but today was the first day working on them felt like true progress. I'm not sue where else this one needs to go, but it feels good to find inspiration in something as opposed to hostility. Working on this PDX Carpet (Not Carpet) Beetle struck up another dozen ideas I'll work through in the next few weeks. I've said yes to the PDXtraordinary show and I have about a month until my image is due. There will probably be a lot of beetles on the blog from now through October. You've been warned?

Image note: PDX Carpet (Not Carpet) Beetle