(approx 2x4)The in-progress scene below is the view from the back of Mabel Dodge Luhan's house in Taos, looking into a Native reservation. I just loved how the orange bank of tree was framed by purple mountains and green trees.
In a way, I'd almost like to consider this "done"; I'm pleased with some things about it and started to question what "doneness" is, anyway.
(7.5x11)Robert Pinsky from "Samurai Song"
When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.
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Gorgeous images, and thoughts by you and Pinsky. Yum.
Again, yum.
I think doneness is whatever the artist wants it to be. I love the suggestions of trees, the hint at mountains and the questioning pencil marks around that zingy orange shape - somehow so much more interesting than dotting the i's and crossing the t's - if you know what I mean!
Top right is just lovely too - the colours!... and how the river sweeps around to the foreground.
Sometimes done is too done. To tight,lacking feeling and flow.It takes a brave heart to be done.
I love the subject matter, New Mexico is where my mom grew up.I fell in love with it when I visited there. Your paintings remind me of the river we followed to get the adobe home where she spent her childhood . Her family,original homesteaders, enjoyed a rich history there.
Lovely work, gorgeous Georgia O'K colours. Love the orange against the violet .. oh wow.Gosh you work hard.. no wonder you are so good at this!
I had to laugh, admittedly somewhat ruefully, at your suggestion, Vivienne, that I work hard: for me, painting is the avoidance of work!
Cathy G.--Hi. I had been loooking at paintings by Richard Diebenkorn when I plunged into this ... and maybe that's why I stopped; I've always wanted to keep painting and repainting a scene, hopefully distilling as I went; perhaps ending if I should be so lucky with something Diebenkornish? ;-)
This poetry anthology I'm working on is really full of great poems: sensual, provocative, witty and catty!
A brave heart and a fear of messing up, Cathy! Some paintings seem to go through an uglyt stage (or two) and others to be appealing at various stages--in this one, for me, it's probably just the colors ... I don't want to tamper with them!
I love NM too--it was completely unlike anyplace I'd ever been. I hope to go back.
I`d sure say it`s done, what a beauty! Lock it away before you 'fix' it. Oh, the stuff I`ve ruined.
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