In between times, I have been stealing out to the trailer to paint. I have a big table covered with small canvases and I am working on a half dozen at any given time. My process is to just simply play with color and shape to see what happens~my favorite way to discover things.

This little (4″x4″) canvas had been laying around for weeks with only wavy blue stripes on it. I just couldn’t figure out what to do with this direction and color scheme. Whenever I get to that point of not knowing, I just move on to another canvas until something hits me. Well, instead “it” hit the canvas.

One early morning before work, I was again throwing a bit of paint around and some yellow dripped on this canvas. Ah-ah! The image instantly turned into space. Maybe even the view of space from Saturn. That is, if you could lay in the Saturn grass one balmy evening and look up at the stars through your planet’s rings. Or, maybe this is looking out over the ocean at the risen moon. Whatever it might be, I liked it.

The final touch was this quote cut from my now diminishing Gore Vidal book. I clipped it out weeks ago thinking it philosophical. And now, with this little space painting, it’s as if the image and the quote were made for each other.

Well, I hope you are having a really great day. My weekend has just begun and among other things, I am going to lay in the grass and look at the stars.

xoxSarah