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Musings Of A Painter
by Marian Fortunati on 1/28/2010 6:51:35 PM
 "Time Worn"
8"x6" Oil on RayMar Canvas
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The last two days have been absolutely GORGEOUS! After last week's unusual deluge and a follow up weak rainy front this week, we spoiled SoCal inhabitants were accepting of the needed rain but longed for our normal sunshiny weather. Well, it's back!!
After dropping Tyler off at school, I went for my bi-weekly almost four-mile-walk down to Gelson's and back. When I got home I still had about three hours before I needed to be in Tyler's class to volunteer. It was an almost physical need that pulled me outside to paint. Have YOU ever felt like that??? I debated whether to do the bills or work on club business, but it was so beautiful outside, I talked to myself and decided that I could squeeze in a little time in the nearby Caballero Canyon to paint something small. What joy!
I walked down into the canyon and had decided to paint something which included the very interesting rounded, water-weather rocks that are near the path where I have painted frequently before. It wasn't a long hike and I settled in quickly. In my mind, I had also planned NOT to hide out as I frequently do when painting outside in public... I set up right by the path that hikers, joggers and bikers pass by and told myself that I needed to get over my reluctance to talk to people. I steeled myself for the thoughtless questions that I've heard in the past like, "Are you any good?" and "What is it that you're painting?" I told myself I need to practice how to handle these questions and use them to grow with.
I started with a small 6x8 canvas orange-toned canvas board and sketched in the scene then quickly decided on the value pattern and began to lay in the paint. I tried not to be stingy with the paint as I so often am. I had SUCH a good time! The first people to come over to see my work didn't say anything unkind and the lady even commented on how pretty the "salmon" color was. "Well," I said to myself, "hmmmmm..." (The salmon color was actually the toned canvas that I hadn't painted yet.) But this reminded me that one of the things I was trying to achieve was to include interesting and "pretty" color in the scene as well as interesting brush-work. So I started mixing up some salmony paint and off I went.
When I had finished the painting and was starting to clean up, another couple walked by and asked to "look". They had originally asked if I was painting "something in particular or the whole scene ... this said as they waived off into the distance"... When they came over to look, I told them that I was focusing on the rocks that had been rounded and worn down by water and left in the canyon. As they got behind me and the easel, they commented that the painting was prettier than the scene. I laughed because I THINK it was meant as a compliment. ;oD
I cleaned up and was back home in time to eat lunch before heading off to help in Tyler's computer class. THEN I realized I couldn't find my camera!! PANIC!!!..... I stuffed down my lunch and headed back into the canyon.... NO CAMERA...... What had been a terrific morning had become a disaster!!... I even had paint all over my clean shirt!!
When I got home from my volunteer duties, I dumped everything out from my purse, then my trunk then I scanned the floorboards of my car and I FINALLY found the camera UNDER my Easy-L palette at the bottom of my backpack.... Thank goodness... All in all a near perfect day!
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8 Responses to The 6x8 Painting That Almost Cost Me $250+
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Sooooo glad you found your camera. To an artist the camera is almost as important as the paint brush!
Thanks for including the photo along with the painting. It was interesting to see how you had interpreted the scene. Well done.
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It was one of those day when you just vibrate with the need to get out there and paint! ... I had a wonderful time in our canyon!
Hope you're vibrating with the need to do something... Makes life more.....well.... more vibrant!!
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this is a little GEM. Beautifully composed with great color harmony and brushwork.
Good for you braving the onlookers. I'm still terrified of people chatting with me while I paint but, want to overcome that. So glad you found your camera and know all too well that panicked feeling of losing stuff (is it our artistic nature?)
Thank you for your comment on my recent painting. I so appreciate it.
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How really funny and serendipitous that you happened to comment on this post and painting that I did last January.
I WAS JUST PAINTING IN ALMOST THE SAME SPOT AND ALMOST THE SAME SCENE TODAY!!
Just as before, I only had a short amount of time and just had this strong urge to get out and paint despite the fact that it had rained most of the evening last night. While the skies had cleared this morning, the winds had picked up... never an easy thing to deal with while painting. So I picked the closest lovely place I could think of and realized that it also was a rather closed canyon so probably wouldn't have too much wind.
I painted those same rocks again... toooooooo funny! I guess many painters end up painting the same scene over and over.
I'll post today's painting tonight or tomorrow.
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