On the easel, or should I say table is this large piece, 24" x 48". I love the design of this and am fighting with colour as
I wrote about previously. I'd love to be able to marry the colours I've got going on in this piece. Worked on the underpainting using a beautiful hue of greyish purple. It's added depth and will allow for greater contrast, I hope!
"The process of creating renews my spirit, and I find myself attuned to the details of life rather than being stressed by being overwhelmed. I find myself listening rather than shouting into the void. Creating art opens my heart to see and listen to the world around me, opening a new vista of experience.”
Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture by
Makoto Fujimu In the meantime, I'm beginning to do some of the insolation foam texturing on the canvases, grand-daughters, Grace and Lyvia will be helping me to complete. They are anxious to get going and asked the next day when they stopped in before heading for
Crabbe Mountain to ski. "Are you working on our paintings yet?" So Nanny will get to work getting the foam down, way too sticky and hard to clean up for them to manipulate.
Speaking of Easels. My first and
only easel is on its way to me! I've held out on buying an easel because of how I work. It would require a rugged, manuverable, fun adjusting easel and I do believe I've found one in the Mirage All-Media. My dream is to have the boys (Jean and his bro Francois) make a table that tilts, twirls, raises and lowers like
Maxine Masterfield shows in her book, Painting the Spirit of Nature and
DVD. (See my sidebar for link to her book)
The easel came with great recommendations from artists who put it through it's paces and the price was excellent. So I can't wait to be able to put my large canvas on this thing and raise it up, tipping it and laying it flat as I work and twirl the thing around. Sure will beat having it propped up on a big table or my small tilt table, and will save my back lots of painful episodes I'm hoping.
