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| "Winter's Refuse" mixed media 22"x28" |
March has arrived in northern Iowa. Birds are returning including flocks of robins and blackbirds. The snow had melted considerably until today as it is currently being replenished with another Monday snowstorm. That early melt of snow, the first couple melts anyway, leaves the ground covered with broken branches, trash in some cases, what I call winter's refuse. It is wet, muddy, and messy. The ground is still frozen so the water has nowhere to go but remain on the surface and form small ponds that the returning ducks enjoy in the farmer's fields. The bird feeders are crazy busy with competition from the new returnees from the warmer climates.
The painting, "Winter's Refuse" is an experimental painting done in acrylic and ripped masa paper on watercolor 140# Arches paper. I wanted to play around with surface qualities and not get locked into realism. The interconnectedness of things is my focus here; nature, the seasons, time, space. My plan is no particular plan. My plan is to just continue painting and see where that leads me.
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