Symbols

This was originally a larger painting on watercolor paper that I didn’t love, so I cut it into 4 pieces, about 5/6”. I’ve been enjoying painting on a smaller scale lately.

I added colors and marks, several different mediums, and I just played around and trying to make them each unique, while keeping the same common background. The part I did like is the stenciled symbols, so I tried not to cover them up too much.

There’s two others somewhere around here, my studio is a total mess, maybe I need to straighten up! 😉

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          1. Mine was a canvas that was given to me by a painter who’d lost his vision. It wasn’t “just” a canvas because of that. I started a painting then knew it wasn’t the right painting. A few years later I saw something out at the Refuge that felt like a gift. A solitary Sandhill crane walking among some tree saplings on a misty, snowy March day. It took a while — and Covid — before I saw what the canvas wanted to be. That. Painting it was fantastic and now it’s hanging exactly where it should be.

            crane-walking-among-willow-saplings

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