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The above link will take you to a choice of products featuring "Spirit" a

painting of an image that emerged from the page. /Above is a photo of the piece.

It will take a couple of clicks to get to Redbubble. Other sites that have my

artwork available try linktr.ee/jredmanwadsworth

Slhe resided in the main gallery of my home and has since moved away,

to the home of a serious collector. Once upon a time, she had throne, white

hair and her dress was white. Small changes became huge ones, then the black hair

required outlining all the plant life in black.  She took hours to paint, is 30 x 30.

I found the square canvas to be a challenge, I have stuck to vertical rectangles

most of the time.  The windows in my home used to be paned (falsely) and I 

think that is where my orientation for painting came from.  I've taken out

the "ribs" of the windows ... better to see my wonderful view everyday.  Below is the

view from my bedroom ... taken last year of the frozen fiver.   I love the actual

color in the photo, and the texture in the ice as it froze.  

Committed

I have decided this piece is done for the moment.  I was not happy with it as I painted, but I kept at it.  I have another started, but it's still too wet to work.

It's 18 x 18 on gallery wrapped canvas.  I've never destroyed work, but this is on a recycled canvas.  I had three pieces I was not interested in pursuing any further.  They were on wrapped canvas ... I paid good money for the support and was not going to waste it.  I had some gold gesso from Daniel Smith so I made them into blanks. 

I've used all three now and the only supplies I had left were three 18 x 24 canvases, and a full roll of primed canvas.  That's been sitting in the corner of the studio for several years now.  I don't like to stretch canvas.  I was saving those three because I thought I was going to do some "Old Masters Style" paintings.  I don't enjoy that process ... so why was I considering it?  It wasn't even a personal challenge.  Why did I keep saving the canvases for when I was in the mood and had the time?

I do enjoy the process above, and of a prior post and that is why I work.  I committed myself to doing what I enjoy.  Just ordered a dozed 18 x 18 canvases and a few 30 x 30.  I'm traveling my own path into the unknown.  As I was applying the gesso to the 18 x 24s, I was thinking of that roll in the corner.  When I work large I don't stretch the canvas, just tack it to the wall.  That way, I'm free to create as large or small a piece as I wish.  Sometimes it is confining to have the size predetermined.  I'm thinking of tacking a large piece up, and seeing what happens.  Might take me all summer, but there's no rush.

Happy Holiday Weekend!