You will see blogs that feature daily painters -- people who work on and finish a small 6 x 6 inch painting every day. A lot of them are fruit and cupcakes, maybe just a little formulaic and sweet, however technically accomplished they may be. I mention this because I think I am heading into having a blog of the paintings I start but never finish. Having just made myself a promise that with the cold weather forcing me to stay in studio, I would work on paintings I'd started before and actually finish them... I couldn't face the stacks of paintings in my studio. Nice idea anyway.
Since last June, when I participated in a show at Gallery B in Bethesda, I've been thinking about an afternoon when the light was streaming into the gallery and through a vase. I'd cut flowers from my garden that morning to put out -- lilacs and "puffs" and leaves from purple smoke bush (cotinus coggygria). It was too bad, really, that another of the artists in our show was allergic to lilacs! So the arrangement didn't stay there for long. There was warm light coming through the vase and cool light coming through the tinted windows and it was just beautiful. I took a photo so I could remember it. And now, so I could paint it. Or at least start painting it.
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