Let it go and stay in the flow.
It wasn’t until David asked me to hang some of our masks that I learned that the masks with the huge protruding beaks are referred to as a Doctors mask (or, more properly, Doctors Plague Masque).
This is what I blogged;
Let it go and stay in the flow.
It wasn’t until David asked me to hang some of our masks that I learned that the masks with the huge protruding beaks are referred to as a Doctors mask (or, more properly, Doctors Plague Masque).
I had a 6x6x1.5 inch canvas where I had laid in a rough drawing. While waiting to hear if I had been juried in to a 50/50 Show (fifty 4x4 paintings completed in 50 days) I had entered.
The idea I submitted was to do a series of masks. It was something I had done before that brought me a great deal of pleasure and joy. And people appreciated my masks, and bought them…
And of course, confident that I was a shoe-in, I painted this piece in oil (a fairly new medium and substrate for me). Reviving a past pleasurable memory of painting every day. Where stories developed while painting and listening to music. A story often times grows while painting, revealing and reliving an event in my life or in the life of another. Or just my imagination, runnin’ away with me . . .
The e-mail arrived at the end of the day – a rejection notice to be accurate, informing me that I had not been selected to participate in this years 50/50 Show. WHAT!?
And that’s pretty much when I decided that, hells bells, I would paint my 50/50 regardless. Mentally I was all ready into it. And so I posted the news to my Facebook wall where support from friends and family encouraged me to proceed with my own 50/50.
The next day I was in the studio completing The Doctor when I received a phone call from a local Redwood City Gallery, inviting me to show as a guest artist after reviewing my body of work on-line, and they are specifically interested in the small mask series (that I’m doing for myself – thank you very much) for the gift shop.
By letting go – of the jury selection and rejection
And staying in the flow – by continuing with the rhythm and mindset created in painting The Doctor mask –
A more substantial invitation has been presented.
Keeping the brushes wet,
Teresa
I had a 6x6x1.5 inch canvas where I had laid in a rough drawing. While waiting to hear if I had been juried in to a 50/50 Show (fifty 4x4 paintings completed in 50 days) I had entered.
The idea I submitted was to do a series of masks. It was something I had done before that brought me a great deal of pleasure and joy. And people appreciated my masks, and bought them…
And of course, confident that I was a shoe-in, I painted this piece in oil (a fairly new medium and substrate for me). Reviving a past pleasurable memory of painting every day. Where stories developed while painting and listening to music. A story often times grows while painting, revealing and reliving an event in my life or in the life of another. Or just my imagination, runnin’ away with me . . .
The e-mail arrived at the end of the day – a rejection notice to be accurate, informing me that I had not been selected to participate in this years 50/50 Show. WHAT!?
And that’s pretty much when I decided that, hells bells, I would paint my 50/50 regardless. Mentally I was all ready into it. And so I posted the news to my Facebook wall where support from friends and family encouraged me to proceed with my own 50/50.
The next day I was in the studio completing The Doctor when I received a phone call from a local Redwood City Gallery, inviting me to show as a guest artist after reviewing my body of work on-line, and they are specifically interested in the small mask series (that I’m doing for myself – thank you very much) for the gift shop.
By letting go – of the jury selection and rejection
And staying in the flow – by continuing with the rhythm and mindset created in painting The Doctor mask –
A more substantial invitation has been presented.
Keeping the brushes wet,
Teresa
