From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“What SPACES a WOUND does fill?” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink & gesso on stretched canvas, 30″ x 24″)

From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“Birth, Death, Rebirth: Which LIFE is this? Where is my SOUL?” By Thomas Typewriter (watercolor and gesso on stretched canvas, 24″ x 30″)

From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“The SUBTLETY of cooperation” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor and gesso on stretched canvas, 30″ x 24″)

From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“A Swirl, A Storm” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor and gesso on stretched canvas, 30″ x 24″)

From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting and a new illustration

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“AERIAL view of a mental LANDSCAPE” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas, 30″ x 24″)
“Untitled Illustration of a phone call” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor and ink on paper, 9″ x 13.5″)

From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: 2 new paintings

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“When I am MORE THAN LESS, more often than not” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas. 30″ x 24″)

“The complexity of STILLNESS” by Thomas Typewriter ( gesso and ink on stretched canvas. 30″ x 24″)

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings

I missed last week’s update. A Thanksgiving cold had me laying low. Additionally my heel spurs and hand/wrist pains returned. I suspect the dark colors, especially black, may be an unconscious response to physical pain. This past year has a never ending peeling away of layers of self-identity. If I am like an onion in that I have layers, am I also like an onion in that my layers are finite?

Enough morbidity, onto the paintings.

“Sometimes REBIRTH.” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas, 16″ x 20″)
“Straight LINES drawn across crooked CURVES, FIGURE WHAT YOU WILL.” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas, 20″ x 16″)

“Sometimes the PAIN slips out, for BETTER AND WORSE” by Thomas Typewriter

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings
“Sometimes the PAIN slips out, for BETTER AND WORSE” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas. 20″ x 16″)

“What FOXES will you meet IN THE CROWDS?” by Thomas Typewriter

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“What FOXES will you meet IN THE CROWDS?” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor, ink and gesso on stretched canvas, 20″x 16″)

From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter…

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“PROGRESS lacks SYMMETRY” by Thomas Typewriter (16″ x 20″, watercolor & gesso on stretched canvas)

This has been a much better week at the easel than the previous couple of weeks. I finally figured out how to work with the absorbency of the new canvases. It only took a dozen botched paintings.

The title for the painting comes from how in my art, and also my life, that there never feels like an even progression. Improvement comes from a thousand little tiny ticks. Maybe in the next painting I’ll figure out better ways to use red, but it may take me ten more paintings before I’ll figure out blue.