"Moving" Art

Finally our house is sold and we have bought our retirement home and we're in the process of packing.  Going from a pretty large home to one that is half the square footage is a challenge and it's forcing us to downsize in a serious way!  It would be a lot easier to move if I didn't have so many watercolor and porcelain art supplies as well as all the paintings and hand painted porcelain.  No time for watercolors these days.  My art consists of packing and color coding the boxes to organize the move.  At least Duct tapes comes in a lovely palette of colors!

No Loose Ends

Abstract paintings are not something I've done very often.  I read something the other day from the Bible in the book of Isaiah that inferred with God, we won't be at loose ends.  We may be holding on to pieces of life like strings, ribbon or yarn,  that don't necessarily make sense in time in space, but in eternity there is a coming together.  It's like the perspective of looking at the two parallel lines of railroad tracts.  They don't seem to meet, but looking off in the distance they join as one.

Looking at this image may evoke other interpretations to someone else.  That's the beauty of abstraction.

Nature's Pallette

A couple of years ago during a trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan, I took dozens of photos of outstanding fall color.  From trees to fields to still ponds reflecting color like a palette, compliment and analogous color combinations were everywhere to be found.  God paints scenes for us in every season, at every hour of the day in  harmonious palette combinations that we have to study to reproduce. I decided to paint this on clayboard and I forgot what a delight it is to lay transparent watercolor on this surface. This was painted from one of those inspirations photos I've kept in mind to paint "one of these days."  Today was the day.