Janet has been reviewing and plucking from old sketchbooks,
Sketchbook Excerpts is the hub linking to other new pages each with a theme and from different years.
Click the buttons below for respective Sketchbook Excerpt pages:
Doodles (2012) Sketching on the Fly (1991-1993)
Sketching West Virginia (mid 1980s)
Trees! Doesn’t Everybody love trees? (1990-1991)
The artistic intent behind this painting was to solve a puzzle, Sudoku. Every sewer and/or quilter knows a NINE-PATCH. A Sudoku is 9×9 patch. Instead of using numbers, I painted a square using line, color, and pattern. This nonobjective image was reproduced 8 more times, and divided into a 9 patch, then pasted all together on a Sudoku grid using an established solution. Superimposed on top of the grid were some bird like shapes inspired by petroglyphs to create more visual interest. I’m not good at working with numbers but solving this puzzle was fun!
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This painting kind of bridges a gap between nonobjective and abstract. Color, shape, pattern are all jumbled in a chaotic arrangement. The shapes are somewhat suggestive of rocks buried under ground and so could be considered abstract. The artist’s concept of “Middle Earth” – a term borrowed from Tolken – is highly imaginative.