Whew, that title is a mouthful. Maybe I should shorten it to “Remember Our Oneness”. Hmmm. I feel like my titles are getting longer and longer lately. I often have to edit them down.
This painting started quite differently. For the past month I have been doing “almost daily” collages, all measuring 8×6 inches. I made one that I really liked, which you can see here on my IG and thought I should try to replicate it, but on a much larger panel. I think the first issue was that I went square. And then I ran into some other issues. And then I ended up painting over all the birds. And then I ended up scraping away to reveal two birds that are actually the same bird. And then I ended up turning the nebulous abstract bottom into very strong blue stripes. The metal leaf stripe and the yellow dots came last.
Whenever I have something in mind for a painting, I end up totally veering off into a whole other direction. I wander with paint and marks until I find my way back to something that makes me go, yeah, this is what I wanted all along.
A few days before I figured this painting out, I actually pulled out my acrylics and made a really colorful painting in a style that is not what I ever do. You can see an in progress picture of it here. I truly feel like something got moved around in my brain when I was working on that, because I feel like this painting wouldn’t have happened if that colorful painting hadn’t happened. I never shared the finished painting on any of my socials. But It is currently hanging on my kitchen wall. I love it.
This painting has been hanging on my studio on the wall that you see right when you come through the door. And the bright blues and yellow dots make me happy.
“We like to focus on having learned a skill or on having made an artwork. This attention to final form ignores the fact that creativity lies not in the done but in the doing.” -Julia Cameron