Laurelines

Garden talk

I wish I knew what to call these. Draintings? Prawings? These drawing/paintings are speaking a language I just take down the best way I can, learning vocabulary and syntax as I go.

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Calligraphic flowers, slideshow

I've added today's studies to the total. I think the slideshow format works well with these!

Garden calligraphy continues

Now, it's become a compulsion, which is, of course, what you want. I mean, what I want. You are free to dislike my compulsion, if you choose ;D.

I'm going to experiment a lot more with darker backgrounds. It's so fun!

I can't seem to stay within the four corners of the darned scanner. Here's one half of a piece...

... and here's the other:

More to come!

Energy into action

 

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique... . It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself and your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware of the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open."

Martha Graham

 

So, as I follow my inner prompts, producing lines and colors in paint, my garden as subject for now, I keep Martha Graham's words uppermost in my mind and heart. Do I know where I am going? I do not. I just keep faith in the process.

 

Acrylic on paper  10" x 13":

 

Detail from work too big to fit on scanner:

Detail of piece below this one, just because I love to see texture!:

Journal pages, June

Now it's July. No doubt this month I'll be doing more playing with line, more transcribing the calligraphy of my garden, more pushing paint and ink around, all of which activity you see in these pages from June's journal.

 

 

 

Hope your summer (or winter, if you're antipodean) is happy!