PAINTING AND FORGETTING

I forget how much trouble....no...how long it takes to paint. What is this thing? An object of thought? I suspect too much thinking but it is fun, so fun, to mix and push. Pull up a shape. Natural world as teacher is very busy.

 This is the painting as it is going along. I think the sand dunes are done plus the "Japanese fire" which is really just a pink flat field in the middle of an illusion. Of 3D space on a static 2D surface trick then the flatness smacking up against the viewer, sort of. A curtain? A repoussoire, so to speak.

PLUS I've learned to put a layer with my name on the images! I sort of knew but there was one click I was missing.

flowers going great.

  The flowers are next to add 

to the painting. I am so old fashioned!

LEARNING ABOUT AGAVE AND PAINTING ALONG

These agave pups are making blossom stalks, too. I suppose they will die after blooming. How odd!

The painting progresses. I want to get the blossom at the top but they are too far away. I'll try pleine aire.

Here is a detail.

PAINTING IN PROGRESS

It has begun, on canvas. I may add a
 hummingbird or two. I don't know. That is
 why the tedium is fun. It's the process. 

h60 x 40

Learning and discovery. 

detail