605 ...

just in case you pay attention to such things ... this is my 605th blog post .... clearly i missed my six-0-centarian post day , but i'm still accepting gifts, kind words, greeting cards, monk-e-mail, and money .....

on to the real blog post .. that just kept me from having to think of a title, huh?

so ... there are a number of pieces of art that i worked on and even completed at my kanuga art week that i haven't shown you ... but now i'm moving on .... this is a large blue'd canvas ... i think it is 36 inches square .. maybe just 30 ... but either way, quite large ... so i papered it and blued it and ran out of time ... so ... last friday, i went to my studio with every good intention to do this piece ... work on it ... finish it ... something ... but no ... never touched it once i moved it out of the way ....

instead, i did this ... a 12 by 36 canvas ... did the backgrounds with three or four green acrylics .... and then ... well ....

i glued on all my less-than-stellar brushes ....

it wasn't actually as simple as that ... prior to going to kanuga i sorted through my brushes ... soaked loads in alcohol to get them functional again .... and only took good ones on my trip .... so when i got back, i had a pile of brushes with character, brushes that had lived a hard life, brushes that tell a story .... so, i laid them across the canvas, with a plan of just doing brushes ..... do i put them on randomly?by size? height or width? ...but that seemed dull ... so i picked out a few oddities to add on ... and oddity begat oddity until i had a nice full canvas ... and i didn't even use all the retired brushes ....

so now it's kind of an eye spy game ... what do you spy?