Pelican Bay and the Smith River with Lotus Essence:
What a surprise the Lotus Blossom was to work with. I
really thought it was going to be very light, airy and fairy - like. I
expected cotton candy pink visions with rose haze highlights because
that is how the Lotus blossom smells. What I got was the reality of the
Lotus: MUD. Wonderful, rich, deep, soulful MUD. It prevailed no matter
how careful I was to protect the light. It wanted to express it's
mudfulness. The dense, thickness of the leaf and the sucking of the
nutrients of the watery earth impacted me as I painted. I felt humbled
before it. However, the painting did settled down to a very soft, pixie
dust- like,cotton candy that I had suspected all along but was hidden
in the mud. Now it comes through in a cloud like glow. Soft, but dense
like a mushroom which grows near the mud.
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