I keep looking at and into this piece I’m working on. So many layers of texture and color.

Here is the latest incarnation of the piece I call “this is the journey”:

but is it finished?

I’m not sure. I think I have to give it some time. I’m not used to the bright colors and I’m trying to get the four squares in one square look to go away.

The labyrinth was taken from a photo of a clay piece of mine and reduced to a kind of line drawing in photoshop. I printed it on photo paper and then used soft gel medium to get the ink to transfer to the painting.

I’ll leave it alone for awhile and then have another look and decide if it’s finished.

As usual I’m trying to do too many things. You can see the results here. There are hardly any posts.

Have I been risking?  yup

A quick overview:

- new issue of Toward the Light journal coming out this week > I interviewed Nick Bantock, agonized over how to write the interview which finally came out as a collage of sorts thanks to the amazing photographic work of Vincent L. Chan of  invisionation.com

- taking a mixed media class and finding the joys of plaster> I love texture!

- became a “director at large” with Sooke Community Arts Council and started a website for them (still under construction) but here it is sookecommunityarts.com

- the studio is almost completed> now it’s time to purge and organize all my stuff 

For those of you who wonder about what the plaster is about – have a look:

This is plaster on board. Thick and thin, scraped, pushed, prodded etc. Let is cure for a day and then paint.

I wasn’t sure what this was going to be. At one point I thought I would be attaching an object in the lower left corner.

Then I changed my mind….

So I started painting, adding color over color, sanding some away and adding more later…

… loving the texture…

more color

some thinking

overthinking

time to leave it alone for a while

then I noticed some text I had torn off some work of mine and added it to the piece “this is the journey”

I’m letting it incubate now.

more later …

I’m still dragging my feet. I supposed to be developing my new website, this blog and more to the point – my art.  I want to do it all – sculpt clay, bend and shape metal, layer collage, make journals, write a story. I’ve got ideas and ideas and ideas. I do nothing. It’s supposed to be about “no risk, no art”.

Obviously I’m not risking.

I say I’m in development.

It’s time to show up for the work.