April 3, 2017 7:43 am
Here we go folks, I just know you’re wondering where we are at with this. Here’s Phase V – I wasn’t happy for the longest time with what happened and I forgot to take photos so you have this to go one with. It’s nearly there …….
Phase 1
Phase II
Phase III
Phase IV
Phase V
Can you see where it’s going now?
Maybe, perhaps, some of you might have a vague memory of this page from my art journal last year – this was the piece that inspired this latest experiment
Phase VI, the final phase is almost ready to show.
Thanks for coming by today, I love that you did!
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Categories: Creations From My Craft Room
Tags: mixed media painting, process
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It’s looking fantastic Pauline, although I did go “oh” when i saw you had painted over the pretty bubbles of colour. I see you are so wise… x
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By brymnsons on May 3, 2017 at 10:43 am
Canvases overwhelm me but yours is gorgeous in every stage!! You are an amazing and thorough artist, as well as thoughtful person. ❤
I am making my way backwards, dear Pauline. I have had bust weeks at work (over 45 hours weekly) and three deaths in friends of mine and one of my son's. . . I keep my pre-scheduled posts rolling abs am ahead on This aspect. 🙂
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By reocochran on April 9, 2017 at 11:52 pm
Lovely to have you come by Robin, I haven’t been receiving notifications of posts from you. You are the third person to have fallen off my list at wordpress this past month! So I’m glad you left this note. I’m sorry to hear you are losing dear ones. Take care!!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 10, 2017 at 6:18 am
It was a hard couple of weeks. I apologize for not coming by sooner. . . Thank you for telling me about my being off your WP list. Good friends pick up where they left off, I feel. Give Siddy and Orlando pats and scratches behind the ears, as each prefers. . . hugs xo
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By reocochran on April 11, 2017 at 11:50 am
It’s beautiful, Pauline. It makes me think of a kite, flying free and flying high. Though I’m thinking it might be a dreamcatcher. Maybe a dreamcatcher kite to catch our dreams and help them soar. Love the colours!
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By Norah on April 5, 2017 at 7:26 pm
I like your thinking here Norah! I think there might be a whole other painting for the last part of your comment ‘Maybe a dreamcatcher kite to catch our dreams and help them soar.’ I just sketched something out – maybe something will come of it ….. Stay tuned, but don’t hold your breath 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 5, 2017 at 7:50 pm
Ooh! Not holding my breath . . . but hoping! 🙂
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By Norah on April 6, 2017 at 10:55 pm
I love it already, Pauline! 💖 So intriguing.
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By mommermom on April 5, 2017 at 3:03 am
Thank you Jan! Nearly there ….. 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 5, 2017 at 6:20 am
I love to see the way this is changing – I didn’t see the paint-out coming, that’s for sure!
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By sewchet on April 4, 2017 at 5:06 am
Not too many folk like that paint out stage Sheila – even me! But without it, the next bits can’t happen. It remains to be seen what the final verdict is though.
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:56 am
Lovely sinuous strands
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By derrickjknight on April 4, 2017 at 12:45 am
Oooh, nice! Thank you Derrick 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:54 am
Ha ha! Yep, I’m always forgetting to take photos when I should. Looking forward to seeing the final reveal – although as I said before, all phases look beautiful to me.
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By Dartmoor Yarns on April 4, 2017 at 12:06 am
Me and the camera still aren’t the best of friends! I have the blasted phone sitting on the table beside me and still end up at the end of a work run looking at it and going “Oooops!”
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:53 am
Know how you feel and it’s usually LH that says to me ‘that would be a good Sunday Sevens photo’. If he didn’t I’d never have enough.
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By Dartmoor Yarns on April 4, 2017 at 7:58 pm
This has been so interesting–to watch this develop! The colorful background that you had at the beginning–did you just decide that you didn’t care for that? Or is it sort of subtly showing thru the dark paint? I haven’t been able to figure that out . . . .
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By KerryCan on April 3, 2017 at 11:02 pm
I love that you asked this question Kerry! The colourful circles are made especially for the mandala part. As I don’t know how big that will end up being until I decide it is finished, it is better to have too much colour than not enough. In the third phase, when I blacked it all out there are small glimmers of colour peeking through still, which the camera didn’t really pick up, though the texture of them is still seeable on the canvas (but the camera can’t pick that up either). In phase IV I used the raised texture of the hidden circles to add the obvious circles of glimmery blue paint and then moved that paint all over with the help of a baby wipe. Which makes that soft, cloud like effect. Even though I know I am going to black it out, it is really challenging for me to do it and I know for many viewers it is horrendous 🙂 But for the image to evolve something has to go…… Hope this helps clarify things for you. xo
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:50 am
SO interesting to read all this! I feel like I can appreciate the painting even more now!
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By KerryCan on April 5, 2017 at 10:37 pm
Oh, I’m pleased to hear this Kerry – I never am sure how much detail to give – I don’t want to bore my loyal readers 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 6, 2017 at 8:08 am
Wonderful to see this phases today Pauline! I can feel the magic!
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By Carrie Lynn on April 3, 2017 at 6:47 pm
Thank you Carrie ❤
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:34 am
I love it, Pauline. I do remember the dream-catcher from your journal, but I never put one and one together. (Math was never my strong suit). 😉
I love the shapes and colors and the vibrancy. What fun this is.
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By Born To Organize on April 3, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Thank you Alys – I realised no-one had put one and one together – but it’s pretty hard to recall something you saw four or five months ago, one time! So I figured I should jog memories 🙂 You’ll probably miss the big reveal as you all will be swanning around DC having fun and good times. I’ll be thinking of you xoxo
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 5:36 pm
Is it two years today that we first met up in that restaurant? (I remember how excited we were up on the mezzanine floor, watching you and Laurie weaving your way through the crowded place, making your way to the stairs). it’s Siddy’s birthday tomorrow and I know I wasn’t here for his first one, the rest of the dates have been obliterated from my memory!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 5:42 pm
I like this and the space the wheel is spinning in. At first I thought the strands were life in the form of plants coming out of the wheel. Then I cam back down to earth and realized it was a dream catcher. Wow… I do like it and the way it is moving through space.
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By arlingwoman on April 3, 2017 at 2:35 pm
I hope you will like it even more then when you see the final phase! Have a great time with the DC trippers this week – I’m so excited for you all getting together again! Big hugs all round from me 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Just heard from Boomdee this morning. I guess she’s coming in tomorrow. Sounds like quite a few people are gathering! We’ll be missing you!
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By arlingwoman on April 3, 2017 at 11:29 pm
I’ll keep a special eye on facebook (which I usually don’t keep many eyes on at all) and twitter for all the exciting updates 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 7:58 am
Twitter! I must look for you!!!
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By arlingwoman on April 4, 2017 at 3:09 pm
So beautiful, Pauline. I love dream catchers! The dark background is extraordinary, and the muted little circles remind me of orbs, but I watch Ghost Stories on Saturday nights. :-D. Love it!
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By L. T. Garvin, Author on April 3, 2017 at 1:37 pm
Ha! I can imagine you curled up on the sofa watching scary ghost stories! Those orbs have transmuted into something other now….. 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 5:31 pm
I had to show this to my daughter while she was here today or I would have left a comment sooner. I love where it’s going. More like a dream bringer than a dream catcher. I knew I saw trails of light behind it. 🙂 My daughter loves it too.
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By insearchofitall on April 3, 2017 at 12:29 pm
Marlene, how lovely that you showed your daughter! I’m honoured! I like that ‘dream bringer’. I may have to play with such a thought!! 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 5:28 pm
I love that you showed the transformation – from inspiration to nearly finished product. Amazing to see the creative process underway. The latest is exquisite.
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By Susanne on April 3, 2017 at 10:11 am
Thank you Susanne, I’m keen to know what you’ll think of the finished piece though…..
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:28 am
I’ll be tuning in!
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By Susanne on April 3, 2017 at 10:29 am
Thank you!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:42 am
I’m loving that green, Pauline!
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By Jill Weatherholt on April 3, 2017 at 9:53 am
I loved that green too Jill. It also photographed better than the blue palette.
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:27 am
This is just great. I think it’s a dream catcher? Love that you have shown us the process/progress.
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By jennypellett on April 3, 2017 at 9:30 am
Yes! Well done Jenny!! Thank you 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:25 am
Oooh, I like it. That medallion is almost spinning on the canvas.
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By the eternal traveller on April 3, 2017 at 9:14 am
In real life you get that impression – my photos take out some of the intensity of the colours – they are vivid and bright and twinkly. If you can get that impression from a photo you’ll be spun off the planet by the real thing 😀
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:23 am
erm, hallucinogenic jelly fish? multi-limbed rainbow sperm?
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By TanGental on April 3, 2017 at 8:55 am
😀 😀 😀 I actually had a very similar thought ……. 😀
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:20 am
Oh dear…
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By TanGental on April 3, 2017 at 11:17 am
I know – see what you’ve done to me!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 11:26 am
And you such a perfect soul before you stumbled upon my little corner of smut-o-blogging…!!!
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By TanGental on April 3, 2017 at 11:28 am
I’m so glad you noticed!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 11:48 am
It’s really looking good now but you can always fall back on Phase II if it doesn’t work out.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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By davidprosser on April 3, 2017 at 8:48 am
Thanks David – but phase II is well and truly buried beneath a ton of paint 🙂 Maybe I should have stopped there – would have saved myself weeks of angst 😀
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:19 am
love it – but my favourite phase was 2!
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By Maureen Sudlow on April 3, 2017 at 8:42 am
Oooops! 😀 Thanks for popping in Maureen!
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:07 am
Brilliant Ms Pauline! I love how you are showing the progression of images as you go to give us an idea of the thought process involved in each one. Lubbly jubbly stuff 🙂
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By narf7 on April 3, 2017 at 8:17 am
I’m also buoyed on by your lovely comments Fran – they spur me on and give me more images to play with! Thank you 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 3, 2017 at 10:06 am
Your work is lovely. You don’t need any buoying from moi as your work evolves beautifully and it’s like the canvas works its way into reality through your fingers. You have a lovely muse 🙂
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By narf7 on April 4, 2017 at 5:11 am
You say the nicest things Ms Narf! That is a lovely comment for me to read first thing in the morning – thank you. I’m going to chant that to myself all day ‘I have a lovely muse, I have a lovely muse…’ ❤ 🙂
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By thecontentedcrafter on April 4, 2017 at 8:02 am
🙂
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By narf7 on April 5, 2017 at 6:15 am