I described my challenge with my painting as “I’m using the phrase the “Night Garden” but it’s not really about a garden, or flowers, at night.” I realize that’s where I got stuck wanting to paint flowers, but it’s not about flowers at all. Tues night I set up in the basement with 4 paintings on the floor dripping paint onto the canvas from standing. I took photos of them and that really helps me clarify what I like – I enlarge the image and scan for the part I really like. I saw what I was searching for: the flowers can look like clouds or galaxies, and that is the point: flowers can look like galaxies – there is that continuity in nature, that connection which we can rely on. We are the universe, we are connected to our good, we are perfection – we just have to see it, and release attachment to our limiting story: defining this as “good” and the other as “bad”.
Wednesday night, I was talking with my friend Jan over dinner, explaining my paintings and when I came home, I used the liquid paint with a spoon, to drop larger splats, mixing colour with the wet white or black, and used paper to cover areas I liked and didn't want to lose. Thursday night, I looked at them again and just increased the white in the light areas, black in the darker areas and added more green over white areas to bring a hint of leaves.
Wednesday night, I was talking with my friend Jan over dinner, explaining my paintings and when I came home, I used the liquid paint with a spoon, to drop larger splats, mixing colour with the wet white or black, and used paper to cover areas I liked and didn't want to lose. Thursday night, I looked at them again and just increased the white in the light areas, black in the darker areas and added more green over white areas to bring a hint of leaves.
Night Garden 1, acrylic, 16" x 20", February 2015
Night Garden 3, 20" x 16", February 2015
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