Lotus Pods

100 Day Project Day 24

Last night an idea developed in my imagination that started out from, actually I’ll save that part of the story and tell it when/if the idea is resolved on a canvas.

The next develpoment of the idea was this morning’s sketchbook practise, that involved making these graphite studies of lotus pods.

I have to say I was not comfortable doing these, because I have mild trypophobia, which may or may not be a real thing, I don’t care, it’s a real visceral reaction for me. These pods weren’t causing me the worst reaction, but some of the other images that came up in my search were disturbing. For me. Your mileage may vary.

I know where I am taking this idea next, so for me that’s a good art day.

I had some more success by finally getting out of my own way on a little painting I am doing as part of a class. I don’t know why it is taking me so long, other than procrastination and overthinking it. The class is lovely, I really like the ideas and techniques in the class, it’s all good, and I have created two random paintings from using up paint on my palette from previous sessions.

It’s really not a disaster at all, it’s just taking me a long time to get to the last stage. It’s not even a tight, detailed painting, it’s just some weird thing going on in my head that is stretching it out for some reason. But today I just decided enough, I’m going in and bringing it to a point where tomorrow I will do finishing touches, and that’s where I got to. So I’m happy with that.

The end result looks like it might be better than I expected, but that’s no longer what’s important to me, because I know that I got a lot out of this class, even if it took me a minor Mesozoic age to get here.

I’m missing my wee lodger, but glad to have had a fulfilling art day.

Til the morn,

Suzanne