Advent painting

So happy! I started and finished a bigger painting in less than one month. Enjoy!

Leaf, paint doodles

Eventually a person has to learn to doodle in the same medium as the he or she will create the final product. I struggle with the medium of paint. This week I just played around with the paint, creating backgrounds, playing with stencils, etc. Obviously there was no end result or nice burst of inspiration.... hence the pun.

Fog

I'm so excited! I must share this little painting with you. When I have no inspiration I paint backgrounds and see what asks to be painted on them. This turned out to be some beautiful red orange fog on a pea green sea. The ship was lost in the fog and wandered off center. The painting needed something. Nessie popped in for a cameo and everything was perfect. BUT I was surprised to find a haiku writing itself. Enjoy my very own new poem and small painting.

What happens after midnight

caffeinated glee

fades with morning fog. 

~Kathy Bianco

Blackbird Haiku

I also completed this drawing in colored pencil the same weekend as the octopus in the previous post. The haiku is by Wallace Stevens

When the blackbird flew out of sight 

it marked the edge 

of one of many circles. 

REarrangement

Once upon a time, there was a pretty little flower arrangement on a table as a centerpiece,

 

suddenly it found itself as a REarrangement!

 

 

Haiku 8x10

Another haiku painting has appeard this week. I've enjoyed pushing two different art forms throughout the work week. The sculpture is coming along but the painting finished quickly.

Last weekend I re-read "the Haiku Year" and saw this beautiful painting fantasy.
The blizzard slows
Snow stops rushing
Begins to waltz.

Success/ Sunday Art

I have a new goal, which is several goals smooshed into one. I want to finish a painting. I want to do plein air painting. I want to paint more haiku. Ta-Da, Sunday Art.

On Sunday mornings I have time before church and during nap time to paint undisturbed. I shrunk my aspirations to a 5x7, followed the inspiration of a haiku, and enjoyed Baroque music while I worked.

Coming from the woods

a bull has a lilac sprig

Dangling from a horn. 

~ Richard Wright

Thank you again to my fabulous husband who bought me a book of haiku and the year before bought me a huge set of paints. I'm faithful in using them, my love. Thanks for believing in me!