The word practice is one of my favorites. It implies to me a certain attitude of "lighten up", and at the same time "this is very serious". This painting was created at a time that I found an urgency to get home and paint. Mostly this was because I was learning a great deal about how certain paint medias worked together. I approached this canvas with the luxury of having no objective for how it turned out. The surface was built over about a month of painting for 5-20 minutes per session. It was fun, and educational. One thing that I have been afraid of with artmaking is to develop one approach, and get stuck in it. I find it critical for my growth to keep trying different approaches, and to continue expanding my vocabulary of brush strokes, and markmaking. It keeps it fresh for me.
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