Love and hate stage

This is the stage in the painting that I love and hate: when the underpainting's done. There are parts of it that I love, and I really don't want to paint over it. It's raw and loose and scribbly, but I know that it's going to look better after I do the over painting. Yes, there are definitely customers for the raw and loose and scribbly paintings, but from my experience with trying it out on the small painings, I'm pretty sure that there are a lot fewer of them. It would be nice to say f*ck it and do the scribbly paintings, but I'm pretty sure my income would drop off. Not so good.

I'm trepidatious about the next layers, I hate this stage because I'm worried about screwing the piece up. Underpainting's easy to fix, overpainting is nearly impossible. Underpainting's like rehearsal, overpainting's like a live performance.

Anyway here it is at the love hate stage:




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This am

It's Massive Attack and some mad scribbly action. I have no idea how this one is going to work out...




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Doodles

I'm starting on a new piece, I have the panel and I know I want to do so something vertical and treeish with it, but i'm still trying to figure out how that's going to work:




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Chinatown Remix tomorrow

I'm not participating in this studio/restaurant tour, partially because I wasn't really paying attention and because I'm busy getting ready for my summer shows, but it is going on in my neighbourhood and it's a fun event if you're looking for something to do.

http://www.ottawachinatown.ca/?act=remixed

Also, I wasn't really keen on hanging paintings in a restaurant for a month or turning my living room into a temporary gallery, but then someone at Raw Sugar said just use your porch. Then a dim witted light bulb went off in my head and I realized that I could set up my summer show booth on my driveway, so maybe that's what I'll do next year. Ha!


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Winter minis in progress

I know, it seems weird that I'm doing winter paintings as the weather gets really nice and spring is sliding into summer. Actually, I seem to be going in reverse, having done a set of summer minis, then a set of spring minis, and now I'm doing a winter set.

I guess I'm that kind of person who (mostly inadvertently) does the opposite. Opposite of what you ask? Left/right, whatever was the last thing i was thinking about. I'm also terribly indecisive, spending inordinate amounts of time trying to calculate the best course of action or thing to buy, getting more confused than ever, and then just going with some other random option that I wasn't even considering. You should see the groceries I come home with if I don't have a very specific list!

But I digress, photo:







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Spring paintings

Here are some spring landscapes that I just finished:




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One thing I like about spring

Is that I can open the studio window and hear the breeze in the trees with their newly opening leaves. Reminds me of camping and working up north in the bush, or something vague and good like that.


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