I have been painting for more years than I care to admit to and it is always a new experience. It is amazing how paintings like to push the artist around instead of the artist controlling the work. As I have said before, it is a balancing act between control and accident. I can't imagine using any kind of formula. I know some artists do and all I can say is "to each their own" but it is not for me. I sort of know what I am doing, but I always allow for things to happen that I didn't plan which makes for a perpetually exciting experience. Right now I am modifying the impasto method I have been using for years so that the elevation of the painting is barely there. At one time I was practically putting it on with a spoon but I am now using a subtle impasto effect and incorporating many different warm and cool colors with each brushstroke. Keeps me going! Dancers have a saying that they must dance or die well I must paint or die. I hope I have a paint brush in my hand when I go. If I have mentioned that before it is because it is the truth.
On the home front the ants are back in the kitchen. We are still seeing a few in the bathrooms but now there are quite a lot in the kitchen. Time to get more ant traps and try to keep them out of things. There weren't too many this evening. I usually put the pudding away and my husband gets it out again. Tonight I got mine and told him he had better hurry before the ants get it. He said he got there just as they were hitching their wagon to the bowl! He got it away from them just in the nick of time! The war is on for the warm weather.
Be sure to check out my specials for the week! Just click on Limited Time on Fine Art America. I will have three starting Thursday morning. Mine are usually on the first or second page.
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