begin a painting by having a feeling .... a notion ... a color sense .... ah ... i feel blue .... gather all the blueness from around the studio ...
once all blueness is gathered, realize just how horrible you are to your paint brushes ... get side tracked .... soak them all in alcohol .... while they soak, work on tidying up the studio ....
while tidying up, take a better picture of your best blues ... marvel at just how many blues there are .. marvel at the different brands of paints .... miss your old favorite store pearl art supply. i tried to write that sentence just by saying miss pearl .... but as a standalone: miss pearl .... it comes off as a ma'am not a sentiment of nostalgia .....pearl is the next to far right paint brand .... the shop is long gone .... living on in a few near empty acrylics ....
decide that to do blue you need to get organized.
paint dozens of dictionary pages blue. paint them in such a manner that the ombre blue look stretches far and away around your studio, table, floor, counter ....
let the blue ombre dictionary page dry for days .... or weeks .... walk in and admire all those blue pages .... yay for blue.... hesitate to stack them or use them because they look so beautiful as is. dream about paper art installations .....ombre dictionary paper a whole gallery one day ....
keep dreaming in blue.....
decide that you love ombre so much that you need to ombre a canvas. paint on the far side of the studio where you aren't supposed to paint so that you don't have to pick up the ombre'd papers of dictionary beautifulness
admire that blue. come up with a plan. woefully pick up the papers so that you can plan a reverse ombre flower collage ......
realize that you have enough blue papers to go through years and years of a blue period. good enough for picasso, good enough for e.beck.artist.
there's just nothing blue about blue.
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