Winter Storm, a snowy view
Winter Storm, a snowy view 5” x 7” acrylic on gesso primed board
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Ice Storm, a winter scene 5” x 7” acrylic on gesso primed board
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We lost electric power on Monday, when a second ice storm struck our area and the power was off the better part of two days. It was difficult to see the beauty of the ice while it was creating havoc with our schedule, but after we got the wood stove burning it was toasty warm inside even with 15-degree temperature outside.
One of my former students asks a question I thought others might like to know; “Are the 5"x7" paintings done in a day?? I had to ask”. Here is my answer:
The small, 5” x 7” works are, for the most part, finished in a day or less. Some, I’ve carried over into a second day, but usually because I was distracted by some other activity that had been planned before, such as friends visiting or going to an exhibition or concert. I’m finding now, however, I want to put a little more time into some of them, so there will be some that will take more than a day to finish. Still, I want to regain some spontaneity, so I won’t deviate much from the painting a day idea.
Ironically, or maybe not so ironic, the Chinese painters I was teaching in Chongqing, China, taught me to think about painting more rapidly and spontaneously again, since they had been taught to regularly do a painting in one sitting. My early painting was in abstraction, so I’d painted that way in graduate school, but had become more deliberate when I began to do more realistic work. Now, I’m returning to some of my earlier practice.
I’m updating an earlier ice storm painting along with the one I just did today, so there are two paintings in this posting.
