So, after I finished the “Fifth Codex” painting I was jonesing to do my OWN work – not that I didn’t enjoy the commission, but my own stuff had to flow. I had reconnected with an essential way of working after the commission – I welcomed that feel into the new work. I worked two very detailed drawings based on the Iceland experience, I know you are not surprised.
I wanted to express the feeling of being in the “smoking valley”, soaking in the wild hot spring with no one around, the expansiveness!
I had also started teaching the adult class at the Jamestown Art Center, so I could share the process with my students – they did not believe that you can start a painting with earth tones. Now they do!
