Beautiful Materials: Painting
Image taken by Rossie Schwartz.
We paint a few times a week. It’s something we find extremely recalibrating.
We all have our own space, our own materials and our own work to get to. No one needs help or direction. We are all free. Free to exhale the melodies crescendoing within us.
Often we put on an audiobook, lay our drop cloth over the table and pull out our paint sets.
We like to use canvases to paint, but often settle for card stock paper.
Instead of buying more and more canvases, we paint over old paintings with white paint to create fresh places for persistent ideas.
For myself, instead of watercolors, I prefer the sample sized interior home paints from Home Depot. I love how they slide onto canvas and hold their color. Boldly.
We have a gallery wall in our kitchen to display all of the juice squeezed from our weekly hours in colors.
//If I could be anything, I would be a jazz club crooner or an abstract painter. I grew up listening to my father’s music. So much Soul. Jackie Wilson is still my go-to, to lift my spirits. But, as I have very little talent for either and my evenings are now spent nursing a baby, reading stories and giving baths, I guess I’ll trade jazz club crooner for abstract painter.//
I love co-laboring with my children in the quest to grow a skill.
Beautiful Materials: Painting
Paint Set. Painting Pad. Watercolor Crayons. A Book to Inspire.