I painted this yesterday, late afternoon. And this morning I woke up, realizing it represented my day yesterday: very complex and challenging! In the morning I had a difficult hour-and-a-half phone call with a lawyer. I quickly realized the poor man seemed to have a most-unfortunate problem: he was extremely nervous, talked way, way too fast — and kept repeating himself. Everything he said, he kept repeating over & over — at least 5 times! Like a broken record! That left me wondering what had happened to him to make him be that way? Poor guy.
From there, I drove over to my computer repair guy, who’d been struggling to get my brand-new (and expensive) laptop to go online. The problem seemed to boil down to Gmail (or Windows) kept demanding to send a security code via a text message. But I have no cell phone! (I have no TV, either) It was an unsolvable problem (so far, at least). The sun was shining, the fall colors were out in full glory, I yearned to go out painting — but no! I was stuck in “Windows Hell”. We finally threw up our hands and I left.
So it was under this frustrating, confusing cloud that I jumped at the invitation from my friend Lucy to go down to Seven Bridges Natural Area and paint. It’s gorgeous there! Alas — by then the light was fading. It’s hilly and very forested, so most everything was in deep shade.
I was determined to paint something, doggone it! So that was my mental state when I found this spot. I think it reflected the massive struggles I’d encountered that day: the extreme darks, rushing water, little flickers of light (is there hope? will I be able to get online with the new computer? will the lawyer be able to handle things?)…..
Here’s my setup:
Margie Guyot Art 