Week 1 - Outcome
Chapter 1: New Beginnings
Week 1 Prompt - Describe a new beginning you witnessed within the last 7 days.
Day 1: “Spotted hosta shoots, a new war against slugs.”
D.S, Purley on Thames, UK.
Not being a gardener myself, I needed to research what hosta shoots are. Now I know.
Day 2: “Change in financial priorities!”
A.M, Inverness, UK.
Such a broad subject with little personal narrative led me to exploring the headlines of recent news. Each scrap is created using black acrylic paint onto tissue paper - a very tricky and messy process indeed.
Day 3. “my Garden as winter sheds its clothes so does spring bring forward blossom which Turn to apples every year it’s new again.”
D.L, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, UK.
Blossoms are not my go-to subjects for painting. In fact, I can’t say I’ve ever painted blossoms, but I persevered. You might spot a little friend among the long grass.
Day 4. “Tiny green shoots breaking soil, the simplest kind of beginning.”
L.B, York, UK.
I show tiny green shoots and leaves emerging from under dark soil from the perspective of looking down. I painted the black soil over a field of variegated green, weaving my paintbrush around to isolate the little green shapes. As I progressed, starting with the tiny dots in the lower half, I felt the tiny shoots were beginning to grow and then fly away, in the wind.
Day 5. “A splendid historic Maltese band club, now being renovated and reimagined as a public space for music, food, and drink.”
P.H, Bettingen, Switzerland
I had to wonder what a historic Maltese band club might look like. I sensed a clear transformation was needed - a room in preparation for decoration against a space being prepared for music. A space devoid of much activity - a space waiting to come alive.
Thank you so much for participating. You are helping create a network of distributed paintings. The left half of each pair will be dispatched to the named participant this week and even if you receive a painting you can continue to send observations - there’s no restriction on how many paintings you might eventually receive.