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SUNDANCER

April 11th, 2008

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6X6 oil on canvas panel $100
I found this little cactus as I was hiking back to the house and feeling discouraged about the miserable-flop-of-a-painting I had made that day. Everything had just gone wrong.
 
First, it took me forever to find a subject, then a quarter of the way into the painting I discovered I had disturbed an ant bed. By the time I was moved and ready to paint again, the light had so changed that I was pretty much inventing what I was doing… and it was not going well at all. I marked it up to dues paying and scraped the mess off my canvas, packed up and headed home.
 
As I was climbing the trail back up the hill, I looked to my left into a little clearing atop the ledge that walled that side of the trail. That put me at eye-level with this humble little prickly pear cactus that seemed to be dancing in the dazzling, late afternoon light.Some of the nice background color was the result of what was left from the scrape-off of the flop. There wasn’t much time left before the sun would drop, but feeling like I had nothing to lose, I set up right there on the trail and went at it. I got the essentials before the sun was gone, and went back to the studio and happily put in the finishing touches. A good outing after all.

2 Comments »

  1. Often the ones that sneak up and surprises us are the best ones.
    Lovely work Jimmy!

    Jeffrey

    Comment by Jeffrey — April 12, 2008 @ 11:07 am

  2. It’s funny how that happens, Jeffrey. Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment, and encouragement. I enjoyed visiting your website, and was impressed by your beautiful paintings. I recommend that others should click your link and have a look. Please, stay in touch, Jeffrey.

    Comment by Jimmy Longacre — April 12, 2008 @ 11:25 am

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