COMING INTO 2021
By DUSTAN KNIGHT TARBELL
Three cheers for a brand New Year! It was a challenge last year – we shared some sad times, had some health worries, it felt like running on ice. But things are looking up. Facing difficulties is part of our skill set!
Just like in the studio. It’s amazing how often difficulties
appear. Running out of paper, not having the right size canvas, losing a
favorite brush. Forgetting what we are doing.
Having to call the heating furnace guys, remembering the car appointment – always something.
And that is how I think of it. There is ALWAYS something.
So I try to be prepared and nod and say to myself, well
that’s more like it, something had to work.
It’s a contest to see how many ruts in the road, cracks in
the ice, bumps in the rug I can jump over.
Bring it on I say, well I don’t say that out loud.
Despite everything, I have been trying to be brave in my studio – trying new sizes and not judging the paintings – letting them show me the way.
It’s fun and scary.
Here are some new landscapes. They are small in actual size
but humongously vast in scale.
That’s how I am going into 2021 – big ideas – with a bit of
caution – IE I am wearing knee pads as I skate into this new year.
Peace and love.
Dusty
