Last day of our interior/exterior week! Wooof, today was tough because it taught me that I have to be quick on my feet when things are not working as I'd intended. I had an idea of what I wanted this painting to be, and it seemed to escape my grasp while I was painting it. I had to try and evaluate what was not working, and on the fly, nearing the end of the painting, make small but significant changes to the character of the painting to make it work. It's suuuper tough to do this, because the moments of painting and reflection seem to not be parallel. It's very hard to acknowledge the nature of what we're painting WHILE we're painting it. Usually we paint, we sigh, we step back, and we reflect on what we did. We evaluate it with a good night's sleep, and we're ready to tackle it once again in the morning. But one of the toughest things to do, is to gauge our progress, recognize how close we're sticking to our plan or how far we've veered from it, WHILE painting. BLaAHHHhhggg.... That is very tough to do. Today's painting spoke about viewing from the outside the unnatural quality of having a kid confined to a finite space. I thought the muted hues and restricted values of the "inside" could represent a subdued condition, while that joint that traverses the middle of the painting harshly separates the interior from an unseen but supposed exterior world. What really anchored the painting, which I had not planned, was the introduction of a playful, curvilinear marks that eco wonderfully a child's free nature. Like I said, I had to scramble a TON to find my way out in the end, but sometimes a painting act can be quite chaotic, even dreary, and suddenly out of nowhere, a possibility springs up and we seize it, and our painting smiles back at us :) We have to keep our eyes open for those moments! They're always there, begging for our attention! If we're open to them, they will always, always open a door for us to find our way back :)


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