Weekly BobBlast Issue 497

Chill Out - Begin with Ethereal Landscapes

Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!

This BobBlast is about ethereal landscapes and how I chill out before I start to paint. First thing in the studio, I prefer doing warm up painting exercises… mental pilates. It is my form of meditation while painting. I paint standing up–my paper is on flat tables.

My mind and body begin stretching more and open with a deeper meaning for exploring the unknown. I paint several of these ethereal landscapes at the same time, all in a row. Soon I am ready to move on to a larger format and possibly a new series.

My pre-painting mental and stretching exercise also involves journaling. This process clears out my head. The intention is not necessarily just abstract painting, but more ethereal. Roget’s Thesaurus describes ethereal as:

•Airy

•Ghostly

•Heavenly

•Imaginary

•Light

•Vaporous

For me, these quiet thoughts and writings become visual, using paint. I use acrylics, watered down to transparency, making sweeping wet colors with a 2-inch wide soft brush or a large petit gris quill mop.

Many of these ethereal landscapes are my beginnings for an imaginary abstract–or a realistic coastal beach scape. My intention keeps me painting with a purpose, whether it is a vaporous sea scape, pastoral country scene or a sky and cloud scape.

So, I suggest if you are overly anxious, nervous and full of self doubt before beginning a painting, try these ethereal escapes with a way-too-big brush or with paper towels. A quiet beginning, slowly getting into the pace of painting the new stuff! Make lots of them!

Happy New Painting… Happy New Year!

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•February 12-16, 2024

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•May 20-24, 2024

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•June 17-20, 2024

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Chill Out - Begin with Ethereal Landscapes

Love, Peace & Happiness,

Weekly BobBlast 497 - Video run time 17 minutes, 30 seconds

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