Weekly BobBlast Issue 497
Chill Out - Begin with Ethereal Landscapes
Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!
This BobBlast is about ethereal landscapes and how I chill out before I start to paint. First thing in the studio, I prefer doing warm up painting exercises… mental pilates. It is my form of meditation while painting. I paint standing up–my paper is on flat tables.
My mind and body begin stretching more and open with a deeper meaning for exploring the unknown. I paint several of these ethereal landscapes at the same time, all in a row. Soon I am ready to move on to a larger format and possibly a new series.
My pre-painting mental and stretching exercise also involves journaling. This process clears out my head. The intention is not necessarily just abstract painting, but more ethereal. Roget’s Thesaurus describes ethereal as:
•Airy
•Ghostly
•Heavenly
•Imaginary
•Light
•Vaporous
For me, these quiet thoughts and writings become visual, using paint. I use acrylics, watered down to transparency, making sweeping wet colors with a 2-inch wide soft brush or a large petit gris quill mop.
Many of these ethereal landscapes are my beginnings for an imaginary abstract–or a realistic coastal beach scape. My intention keeps me painting with a purpose, whether it is a vaporous sea scape, pastoral country scene or a sky and cloud scape.
So, I suggest if you are overly anxious, nervous and full of self doubt before beginning a painting, try these ethereal escapes with a way-too-big brush or with paper towels. A quiet beginning, slowly getting into the pace of painting the new stuff! Make lots of them!
Happy New Painting… Happy New Year!
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