I had been working on this painting for quite a while, between other paintings. I thought it may be a great exercise to free up my brush strokes, to learn to go with the (literal) flow in getting lost in the swirly reflections and ripples of the water, but instead I found myself spending way too much brain space on the geometrical coordinates and relationships of the whites and grays and blues, just because that’s how my brain paints.
I fight it and complain about it and long to just be a freer painter, and whenever I do that out loud to another painter, they remind me that this is my style and just embrace it.
And I guess they’re right.
Nancy Anderson 