As I was looking for a few "dried enough" paintings to varnish last night, I came across these two....and realized they didn't make it into the blog, or the count! That means I'm two paintings further toward the 300 than I thought I was! I looked at them and thought, "just as well, yuck, these two shouldn't be counted anyway", but then I thought, "no, they're part of trying new things...tries, no matter how bad, teach a few things." One hopes, anyway. So, I'll add these to the collection as a reminder that if I really, really want to be an abstract artist I need to try harder. That part of my brain, the abstract thinking part, is underdeveloped. Sadly, I've not even a date of creation to put on these two. Near as I can recall, it was not long after my first tiny abstract, dated 4/28/19, but before the next in the sequence, which was 5/11/19. So I'm just calling these May 2019.
When I place the first tiny abstract next to this newer one, as a set they look OK, like they were meant to live next to one another. Two weird, other-worldly landscapes. The bigger one (the mostly red one, a whopping 5x7 inches) I have just named "Wildfire" as it looks like trees set ablaze in a wildfire. I remember I used a stiff piece of fabric after I was done to wipe the canvas and start over, but with the first wipe I kind of liked all the lines it generated. So I gently wiped the whole thing.
So, I just noticed that I start a lot of sentences with the word "so". I went back and took a few out. Hopefully I don't speak this way and drive people mad.
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