CaducaNix

I found some time to paint, but instead of working on some of the longer term projects I decided to play and do this exercise that my painting teacher Pat used to have me do when I got stuck or bored or needed to do something with more energy. Some of you may have done this before and it is a lot of fun. You make a bunch of watercolor washes and then kind of go crazy with the watercolor techniques at random. I used some salt, some crumpled plastic wrap, dripped extra water on, splatter them with various colors (white often spreads in an interesting way on dark colored washes) and then I let them dry and put them in a part of my apartment whe

So things have settled down quite a bit and I have found some time to draw and paint. I have pulled out all the paintings which I haven't finished over the years and strewn them all over the house so that I can stare at them and think about them and decide what to do with them next. My dining room table is covered with my painting supplies. I take my sketch book with me everywhere and colored pencils so I can draw wherever. I have even found some people to talk about art with. I've also been feeling really good lately (less melancholy) and despite the weather (rain almost every day for the last month) I have been venturing out a lot, going p

It has been almost a year with the last journal entry up and since then much has changed. I have not been painting much in the last several months. Things have been rather hectic and upsetting and not conducive to a good painting trance. With much effort, I started a new sketch and picked up a sketch for a painting I started almost two years ago now. I found the later amongst my things whilst I was packing and unpacking during my latest move. It is sort of a return to bugs in the style of Cicada. The move has been good for me. My new home is very peaceful and quiet. I can hear the waves on the beach at night while I am falling asleep and