(9x12)I visited with my dear friends Lisa and Mike this weekend: there's no one like the friends who love you and who you love for getting you back to yourself.
I haven't painted, except for a little very unsatisfying mushing about, for nearly three months, but Mike insisted we paint. So this morning we set up this little still life, clementines and a ceramic pitcher with a gorgeous coppery glaze and a wonderful shape.
Mike's limited-palette painting, below, has imbued the objects with a beautiful humility and earthy sensuality that makes me think of Chinese brush painting.
(9x12)Fortuitously, the day before I went on my visit, Rhonda kindly sent me a great link, which really helped me think about what was keeping me from painting and how to get back to it: http://clicks.robertgenn.com/fighting-blues.php#113. Thank you again, Rhonda!
Continuities
by Walt Whitman
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
14 comments:
Luminous, Glad your back!
All I can say is welcome back. Yay for Robert Genn, and yay for you.
The blues -- artistic blues hit everyone. Painting in the company of kind friends is a great idea. Please keep painting. I love your work.
XOBarbara
Absolutely beautiful, Laura... .. such Luscious watery color !!! it is in your blood...
I get Robert Genn's newsletters, and I thought of you when I read that one (I thought of me too, so inactive since my last stimulating workshop!)- so glad Rhonda sent it on, and great that Mike got you to put brush to paper. What a good friend, and lovely watercolours!
Beautiful light and colour. Artists are never far from creating, we just need a break sometimes.
lovely painting, love the colors and your looseness. glad you are back! Diana
This painting you did, Laura, brought tears to my eyes - it's soooooo beautiful!!! Luminous, yes, that's the word. I'm so glad you have folks there pushing you back to us :) and glad the RGenn newsletter helped.
Stunning Laura, so glad you are back in the swing of things. I was in a slump too until I saw the red barn photo on Margaret Bednar's blog and just had to paint it. Hope you'll stop by for a peek. Happy painting!
Luminous IS the word - it glows, as do your descriptions of getting back to painting, Laura. We artists seem to get caught up in thinking we must put in time every week, and produce...Well, we don't! The creative mind (especially yours)is at work all the time, vetting, preparing, whether we have brush in hand or not.
I love the way you captured the look of the copper and the reflections of the clementines. I'd love to know what colors you used. Your watercolors always have such a lovely luminosity. It's good to take a break every now and then to regroup. You came back with a stunner.
Jean
OMG, that is stunning, Laura! Wow. What a beautiful post all around. I love both your paintings, and I'd say "all things DO come to those who wait." I popped in periodically to see if you were out and about, but this is certainly well worth the wait. That's just really a stunning painting. Take a bow!
Love this pitcher; the reflection is perfect - beautifully loose and fresh.
Beautiful paintings and such intense colours too :0)
this sings laura .. really beautiful
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