Demolition

Chihuahua What?  6"x6" Acrylic on hardboard

In order to create you have to tear down.

Today I observed the total destruction of the house across from our garden being torn down that has not been occupied for 15 years.  Bulldozers and other unnamed large machines came in and broke it up like a cardboard box and it ended up in a pile of dust. I regret not absconding with some of the perennials that were scattered around the foundation, now lost to the rubble.

Change happens.  The house had created a sort of private wall to our backyard.  Will there be builders on the lot?  Will it sit abandoned and simply a grassy area? Nothing stays static.

This creative path that I am working on has its own sort of demolition.  Old habits need to be redirected in order to make room for creative pursuits.  Time to paint, time to think about painting, and time to collect subject matter to paint.  It shakes up the complacency of life and forces new ideas to come forth.  New directions to emerge.

The painting today is from a photo of a little unnamed Chihuahua that was sent to me by a friend.  I used zinc oxide white instead of the usual titanium white in my color palette.  Zinc oxide is much more transparent than titanium and therefore the white texture. He looks alert at these little dogs usually do.  Nothings seems to get by them.