The Sunny Pea

Speaking of nakedness. In one of my early blogs, I had mentioned that one of the hardest things for me to do, and always has been, is share a work in progress.  Even if someone would walk into the room when I was creating, I would tell them not to look - as if I was getting undressed or something.  A lot of soul goes into my paintings, maybe I feared there was something there someone might see that I needed to hide.  The beauty is, I am learning, I have nothing to hide. I have been working away from this fear, through this blog and through asking opinions of others along the way.  Right now in the painting of the "gorgeous gorge", I have been baring a lot what I don't like to share.  The mess I've been feeling inside because I've let stress get to me instead of letting it go, was coming out in my painting of the falls.  Even Terry, who always likes what ever I do, didn't like it.  It needed a change. I want to mention (again, if I have already) that...

Sometimes paintings just don't work... so you either do something drastic, or toss them in the pile of tears.  This one was not working for me... so I took one last ditch effort on it and slopped on some paint.... I removed the rocks in the river and added some along the side.   I also removed the bridge.  As I am progressing on this, I am finding it's becoming more of a New Hampshire scene instead of Oregon.  Maybe I just don't know Oregon well enough yet to do Oregon in the nude. Stay tuned... we'll see where this goes as I get more intimate with it ...