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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
Having had the week off from teaching, most of my time was spent in
the studio, painting. I'm continuing to explore the forest paintings, playing
with scale and technique and finding the balance of subtlety and drama. I need
to keep painting and exploring before I really know this work well. The long, thin
format is interesting for the forest theme, I think. But I've also made some square
and don't feel the need to limit myself to one format only.
My studio assistant has really taken to his little bed. In fact, I seem to have to
convince him that occasional outside jaunts are good for both of us.
The week brought a mixture of lovely, sunny and stormy days, adding to the
mountains of snow piled high around the house and in the driveway. I think
the snow might have influenced the next three paintings.
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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
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| new work, VClaff 2013 |
detail, painting in progress
cropping to generate ideas
Today was warm and sunny, the snow fell from the trees in great, muffled thunks,
water dripped from icicles and dripped endlessly on the metal roof. There was no
resisting the call of the forest, so I buckled on snowshoes and set out with my very
adventurous cat friend. As soon as we were in the forest, he could not contain his
excitement and raced up a big hemlock.
to get off of the cold snow.
We came across a very large fisher's tracks. Its wonderful to know who's been
wandering through and also puts me on high alert when walking in the forest
with a potential meal for a large fisher.
Pasha is also on high alert, as soon as we get to a particular point in the forest,
he pays close attention to every sound.
We ended our walk on the bench overlooking the clearing as usual, though
today the bench seat was level with the snow, so I was rather wet and somewhat
uncomfortable with my knees up.
The view from the bench...My, what a lot of snow!
