This is going to be short because life is somewhat fraught right now. I am hoping to find time to paint but…. So I have been looking for inspiration by trolling through the multitudinous images on my iMac and came across this one. As you know, I harbour a desire to paint night scenes. This particular harbour seems to be a no-go area because I have yet to pull a night scene off. It’s all about remembering the colour of the light. Unfortunately, my left brain is running this show like the little logical-sequential martinet it is, never more bossy than when it’s out of its area of expertise. Meanwhile the gestalt right brain is literally asleep at the switch, having nodded off every time it gets dark. (I used to get drowsy whenever I took my contacts out. Now it seems to take only the setting of the sun.)
Neural rewiring is possible, apparently. A recent interview on Quirks and Quarks dealt with the amazing case study of a 7-year-old who had to have a substantial section of one hemisphere removed because of a cyst. Scientists monitoring him over the next three years were utterly astonished to find that his brain had made new neural pathways; his visual processing was functioning normally.
This sounded promising until the scientist went on to say that only a child’s developing brain can pull off the starfish trick of regrowing a part. So much for that.
So here we are. This painting actually had some promise. But subsequent layers destroyed the underpainting without improving anything. I guess the lesson is to quit while you are ahead and resist the impulse to blunder ahead. Walk away. Make the supreme effort to look around outside after dark. Come back when you know something.
Sincere thanks to the surviving part of my brain that reminded me to take a picture.
Neural rewiring is possible, apparently. A recent interview on Quirks and Quarks dealt with the amazing case study of a 7-year-old who had to have a substantial section of one hemisphere removed because of a cyst. Scientists monitoring him over the next three years were utterly astonished to find that his brain had made new neural pathways; his visual processing was functioning normally.
This sounded promising until the scientist went on to say that only a child’s developing brain can pull off the starfish trick of regrowing a part. So much for that.
So here we are. This painting actually had some promise. But subsequent layers destroyed the underpainting without improving anything. I guess the lesson is to quit while you are ahead and resist the impulse to blunder ahead. Walk away. Make the supreme effort to look around outside after dark. Come back when you know something.
Sincere thanks to the surviving part of my brain that reminded me to take a picture.
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