daily janes

6×6″ acrylic, marker

Getting started is sometimes a struggle. Not just “finding” the time to paint, but getting over the “I have to have an idea” thing before beginning to move paint around. So, I just started painting different colors with a vague idea of placing them randomly, and it seemed almost immediately to fall into somewhat of a grid. I thought of painting in the in-between areas (and eventually added some marker dots around the yellowish blobs), but ultimately decided I liked the white and couldn’t decide any other color that I thought I would like better.

10×8″ acrylic, marker on paper

This scraped painting might more accurately be called a smeared painting. After the initial smear around in a rectangular motion, I added more paint with brushwork, and then added embellishments with a variety of marker colors. This was completed on more than one day (in small doses), fit in around other duties and tasks!

4×4″ acrylic, collage

This started with a scrape of acrylic, then I brushed acrylic all around the edges, then adhered a couple of strips of a cut-up old painting on top. And that is that. Just under the wire.

2.5×3.5″ acrylic on Bristol Artist Trading Card

A quick scrape of color on a small card finishes the dailies for this week. A little pretty for your Friday.

10.5×8″ collage, marker

I took some cut-out pieces of an old painting or two (I cut them up long ago), and arranged (and adhered) them on a piece of matboard fairly randomly. An image or two emerged as I added lines of paint and marker here and there. I know what I see. What do you see?

2.5×3.5″ gel ink

I have a collage I was going to post today, but it just isn’t ready. So, I did some doodling with new markers and this is the result. It’s been a busy couple of weeks with framing and matting daily janes that recently sold. I don’t miss the pressure of creating a daily jane every day, but I do appreciate how it got me making on a very regular basis. It obviously hasn’t been as consistent or frequent this year, but I hope that the benefits of the practice will remain fresh in my mind.

10.5×8″ acrylic on matboard

A multi-layer scrape painting with some textured lines strategically placed using the edge of the scraper. And it’s that magenta taking over again.

9.5×7.5″ acrylic on matboard

This week, I revisited this old painting, adding new paint in the background and over the whole thing. In the original, I was imaging pain I was having several years ago. It began as an abstracted figurative form with a splotch of dried paint collaged on. Now I think it looks kind of map-like. So, even though the piece looks completely different now (and that pain is all but gone), I wanted to include part of the genesis of the painting in the title.

Busy this week getting ready for the daily janes pop-up sale tomorrow morning, so no daily jane this week! If you live in the Des Moines area, please stop in between 10am and 12noon. Contact me for location details.