Day 9 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 9, 2016

Day 9   30 Paintings in 30 Days  Sept 2016

Sometimes you gotta take a nap when the urge hits you.

Here's todays treasure:

 Alice Edwards 1949 --
Nap Time
5 1/2" X 5 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 8 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 8, 2016

Day 8   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes the world seems a better place when you look at it from a different point of view.

Here is today's treasure

 

 









Alice Edwards 1949 --
Viewpoint
6 1/2" X 4"
Pencil on paper
Small works

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 7, 2016

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sometimes there's nothing left to do but fling yourself down and the floor and howl.

Here's todays treasure

 







Alice Edwards 1949 --
Down on the Floor
6 1/2" x 3 "
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 6 30 Paintings 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 6, 2016

Day 6   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

More and more I see the human body as a landscape. Beautiful no matter the size, shape, colour or sex.

How wonderfully complex yet functional.

Here's todays treasure

 

 











Alice Edwards
Pensive
61/4" X 4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 5 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 5, 2016

Day 5    30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

The plan was to paint today but somehow line is still wandering around and taking me with it.

Here's todays' treasure

 

















Alice Edwards 1949 --
Akimbo
5 1/2" x 4/12"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Sept 4,

Day 4   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

I do seem to be all about lines right now. Sometimes just watching them evolve flowing one into another and morphing from there is quite meditative.

It's giving my brains a chance to reset after all the furious activity of a studio move that took three weeks packing, 6 trips and 5+ people plus a whole days unpacking by a different set of 4 of us and then another day transporting paintings puttig up a hanging system then hanging them, then rearranging it all to get ready for a pop up Open House thing with three days notice.

Truly needed some down time and the lines giving it to me. I've done 100 of these small linear works on paper.

Tomorrow I expect to be back behind the easel all things being equal.

I wanna paint ...

Here is today's treasure
Alice Edwards
the Gathering
5 1/2" x 8"
pen & ink on paper

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 3,  2016

Day 3  

It's been so hot this past summer. Like to melt you into a little grease spot.

So today, I found myself wishing for snow. Beautiful clear clean snow. I can remember getting into all the clothes you wore to go out to play in the snow when I was a kid.

By the time you were in your snow pants, assorted sweaters, boots and hat, not to mention the string from your mittens cutting the back of your neck and then got into your parka. You were melting. All sweaty and your mom hadn't even tied your scarf around you neck yet then you had to go to the bathroom.

So out of the outdoor clothes and then back into them only to get all sweaty again before you got out the door to play.

And it suddenly occurred to me that winter or summer aren't all that different.

In one season you melt from getting ready to go outside. In the other you're all sweaty and wishing you could take your skin off to cool down.

But I wished for snow today. and since I can't order it from the corner store I drew snow accouterments as a reminder of what's just around the corner weather wise.

 Here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards
After Playing in the Snow
5" x 6 1/4"
ink on paper