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A month of painting is winding down. Or is it? It is Day 24 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge; my offering is “Slough” (watercolour, 5″x5″). This piece began as a study of complementary and split complementary color layering, and ended feeling like a sloughing off of previous days’ works. I have struggled with this 30 days of painting while trying to build a larger series of works. Allowing myself to produce bad work is necessary to break the need for perfectionism, but producing bad work doesn’t get easier. I have produced some real stinkers this week that I haven’t shared. With the challenge coming to a close, I realize that these daily paintings have been the bright spot in a frustrating struggle with my other larger work. Maybe this is the beginning, not the end.
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As a xerographist, my work tends to be, almost exclusively, representational. The 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge offers me an opportunity to revisit abstract painting as an alternate voice.