A while back Kari came to spend a day with me and we worked on some paintings. Kari started one but decided she didn't like it. I said, just paint over it, let it dry and then start again. No. She was set on starting over. You see she wanted the white canvas to show around her painting. So I had her paint over her canvas and set it aside to dry while she painted a new one. She laid that paint on thick, swirled her brush through it and painted a smiley face in the middle. That painted over canvas has been sitting there ever since, calling to me, saying "Don't waste me!" Today, Kari was here again and again we sat down to paint, Kari with a clean canvas. I knew better than to ask her to use that canvas but I picked up that neglected painted over canvas and painted this. I love the texture from her swirling and I love the dark blue paint peeking through the sky. I love the misty fog coming in from the lake and up the side of the hill into the trees. Soft colors, blurry edges, indistinct impressions of vegetation, water and sky.
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