Nesting Cormorants, Audubon Park, New Orleans, Ink on paper, 6×10 in., originally uploaded by ahtravis.
I arrived back home yesterday and today have been pleasurably working in my studio. During my absence I had thought of so many pieces of work I wanted to be doing that I started three today! This way of working will be new to me. Until now I have maintained a rigorous discipline of finishing one piece before I have allowed myself to begin another. The three pieces I have begun today are each important in a different way, each is at a different stage of development and in one case a canvas must arrive before I can actually begin painting. Today I have assembled materials, begun a paper papier-mâché and worked on a preliminary drawing.
I will have to decide later just how to use the many ink sketches I made on our trip. It may take years for any one them to appear in my painted work, but I keep them in my memory and know they are there to draw on. In the meantime, with this particular group I enjoyed developing each sketch to a degree I do not usually attempt.
bragg hollow studio 