thanks for your words, glad i could shake you out of something, though i didn't deliberately set out to do that when i wrote my post :-)
this conversation is so inspiring, i think it is laying bare all kinds of new veins of inspiration and creativity. i feel like there are fragile tendrils reaching across the ocean, connecting and infusing you and your art and your creative process with mine and vice versa....
today i sat in a hospital waiting room and let my eyes wander up one of its high walls, and.......
ha! remember the red mouth/boat/fish in your abstract painting? i almost fell out of my chair...!
the mouth kept beckoning me to get closer, so after my visit to the surgeon i took the elevator up in order to get better acquainted with this dramatic portrait.
interesting to see how this was done. a photograph, printed on a panel, then covered with some light gesso or other medium, white texture applied with stencil on the left, structure added with a palette knife on the right, and the mouth painted over and accentuated with iridescent red hues.....
it immediately gave me some new ideas about what to do with a couple of my images i that i have recently had printed on canvas, i was really disappointed about how bland and fake they feel and have hidden them somewhere in the back of a closet lol! can't wait to get my hands on them now, but will have to, because my new studio will not be ready until august.
as soon as i got home i transferred the shots to my ipad. as you know i am taking Vivienne McMaster's self portraiture class, Be Your Own Beloved and today she encouraged us to have fun and be playful with our self portraits. so i went and did just that.....
you probably won't believe it, but this is me...... i blended in a portrait taken 3 years ago, chosen from a series taken early in the morning when i had just woken up. my hair was weirdly spiky and i looked incredibly puffy and sleepy. i remember browsing the whole lot and thinking: okay, so this is what i really look like....mwah...well.....
and just look at me now...! i feel like i've turned into my all time favourite artist and singer Laurie Anderson..... (and lo! more synchronicity, only yesterday i posted a link to a live performance of her 'expert' song in my flick'r group....)
so i definitely had great fun today. hope you did too!
btw i have added a new page/tab to our blog for us to share links to anything and everything that inspires or enchants us
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