A return visit to the creek lathered with enough spray to repel all the ravenous mosquitos this side of the equator from a slightly different vantage point. One sniff of me and they either fainted or fled, I was happily abandoned. A veritable calm prevailed, I could hear the frogs and myself sigh in something approaching tranquillity.
oil on canvas panel 12" by 12"
Wow! This ist so gorgeous Marcia! I am very impressed by your powerful painting!
ReplyDeleteI think they knew better than to bite a famous artist!
ReplyDeleteLove the force and confidence of the marks and color
here. Did you say finger brush ... where can I buy one
of those? All the best.
I just went back and read your lead in.
ReplyDeleteWhere in the H did I come of with finger???
Aw senility, it's a wonderful thing.
How gorgeous. I wish I'd seen this right away to tell you. It is lush and tranquil and amazing.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Barbara
Marcia, this one pretty well knocked my socks off! I love the whole thing but my absolute favorite bit is the reflection. The colours and shapes are wonderful and I adore the pale blue marks.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular work! I see similarities to Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler in this.
ReplyDeleteJust wow!!
You're cookin' with paint. Hope you're keeping cool otherwise.
Hi Kathrin
ReplyDeleteI am humbled by your generous comments and terribly remiss in thanking you. No excuses of course because I appreciate your comments immeasurably but I have of late been short of time to be on the computer.
Hope you are well!!!!!
Marcia
Doug, you are very, very cute!!! I love your humor - you remind me so much of a dear friend who also likes to make himself the butt of his own jokes. It is a style I appreciate - and my other friend is a Brit and you are American, so this must be a universal trait.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your lavishly, kind thoughts as well and I hope you are enjoying yourself this summer with brush in hand. I love your work!
Barbara, Thank you! Toronto is a stone's throw to Hamilton, we ought to have a visit before the summer is over! Your work is cool and amazing as are you, its perpetrator!
ReplyDeletePurrrr to you all and the cats and Zoey who I understand, is trilingual with English, Cat and Dog discourse and is now absorbing some Italian and Chinese!
love, Marcia
Nicki, I love the expression you used- 'knocked my socks off' - it elicited instant delight!!!
ReplyDeleteAs you know, I love your work - you are a major source of inspiration to me - dear fellow Saskatchewanian!!!
Dear Melinda! I am giddy with your praise - high, high praise indeed, being compared to the likes of Krasner and Frankenthaler - even if it is a stretch of course.
ReplyDeleteThere are three Krasners at the AGO this summer, on loan from MOMA - one Frankenthaler, one Joan Mitchell, a fantastic large totem piece by Bourgeois - I also love the two Noguchi sculptures and the one by David Smith! (Noguchi, btw, was interred in Arizona during the second world war, voluntarily at his own request - although being half American would have exempted him - but he wanted to show solidarity with less fortunate Japanese Americans.)
There are many, many heroes are there not, almost too numerous to keep track of.
Also, I must say I'm pretty excited by your recent work!!!
xo Marcia