I have forgotten how much I love painting big and how I love oscillating from big to small and small to big. It is something I’ve always done.
I’m not sure why exactly but I have been avoiding my big canvases since we went into lockdown. Maybe it had something to do with confidence or courage but both have been missing in action as I have been walking circles around these big white substrates since.
I started this piece in November last year and I thought I had finished them early March but they have been calling me back constantly, each time I walk on by and this week I found some courage. They have something magical about them and I love where we ended together this morning. I think I might have said that in March too… oh dear, but I think soon after I shared about them being finished, I knew right away that they weren’t.
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This piece is 24”x18” big. The extra layers of paint and colors have completed their story so much more and I’m more than happy with their story. This piece was a mixture of playing with the idea of my hanging building earrings that I made last year, combined with my love of Orvieto, that little hilltop village that has stolen my heart since 2012. That sacred place is always on my mind and we were supposed to be there this year, if I am not mistaken but it’s been pushed again. but it goes without saying, I miss it so much and it’s always in my head and always always in my heart.
As for my courage around painting big… I placed another big canvas on my studio floor this week, 28”x20” and before I could overthink it, I grabbed my long bamboo stabilo pencil holder and from a distance started drawing my new piece. I had one of my smaller painting concepts in mind that I wanted to enlarge. I worked all day to cover the white spaces with my first layers of paint. I haven’t done this for so long and it felt so magical… tomorrow I start another big canvas and I’m going to keep going. I’m playing and what could be more beautiful than that.
I’m painting big rusty, for sure and my eye is a little out in terms of my proportions but I’m loving playing and practicing again. My big canvas love tank is slowly starting to fill again.
Hope you have a beautiful weekend and hope to connect again next week.
From my heart to yours, happy weekend.
