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Yoga Breathing 

24/9/2015

 
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This is usually the good part.  Full palette out, I can daub away to my heart's content.  Not that the final glazes are relaxing.  I would call them "bracing."  Like a sailboat, you tack - between light and dark, soft and hard, this time between green-gold and soft purples.  I've been trying.  Every so often I haul my canvas out to a spot of clear sunshine and turn it into something else, no longer my baby, just an image I can view somewhat more impartially.  You can see a corner of a dead leaf on the bottom.  I didn't have much choice about where to prop it.

Did I mention that there are five men on our roof, three trucks and a bin in our driveway, and our car at the mechanic's as I write this?*    It sounds like the shop class from hell.  Realizing, one apothecary bottle too late, that anything made of glass had to be removed from the window sills, I have now hunkered down in front of my canvas and am trying to breathe like a yogi and think calming thoughts.  

I can't think of any.  Please send some.

*Did you ever see the Gary Larson cartoon of a bear husband being greeted at the cave door by his furious bear wife (the telltale apron), who is standing with her paws on her hips and saying "A likely story!"  Your eye moves further right to see that he has a tag in his ear, a tracking collar, a big number painted on his back and a hypodermic sticking out of his rump.  He came to mind today.




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