Breakthrough!!! Change!!! Wow!This entry has been a very long time coming....in July I went to Jeanne Carbonetti's watercolor workshop in Vermont. Shortly after i returned I moved out of my home away from my marriage and started a brand new life....so i have been away from this blog for a while. I intend to share much more often now.
What a great spirit Jeanne is! I felt a deep connection with her and love her spiritual approach to painting. At the end of first day, though, i felt i was doing the same old thing.
I made a commitment to myself not to do the same thing the next day. And I am thrilled with what happened. My very new, very exciting new experience of painting is to loosely lay down big color, washes and HEART. Then the most exciting thing is to SEE WHAT APPEARS, and then to bring it out so everyone else can see it too. This painting was inspired by the feeling of "elevation". I was outside looking up up up the steep hillside at the tallllllllllll skinny trees.
The sky seemed way high up there.
As i applied the big shapes of color, figures appeared. The trees took on gestures. Being metaphors, they too are as alive and feeling as we are. The light at the top has spread its wings over all of creation and the deep blue sky is the setting of perfect clarity and brightness.
