Day 6 : 1 Day and Last Day - The End and The Beginning - 1 year of DE-carbonizing by carbonizing project. Last day of 6 days of painting on one continuous roll of paper. Last of the charcoaled coffee egg yolk paint used. Final painting size -  1.5 feet wide x 24 feet long.
I can't help but see faces in all of my detailed photo documentation. Pareidolia  is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

6 Day painting: continuous Charcoaled Coffee paint paper scroll painting. Second last day. Additional use of water colour pencils

6 Day Painting Continued: Change is coming to my daily studio practice for today is second last day in Canada Council Grant 1 year funding. I started this blog almost 363 days ago. I have been exploring and experimenting with charcoal and its endless applications in the studio. This experimentation has  let me to want to explore other art historically significant materials like eggs yolks and whites, soybeans, paper making. It has made me curious regarding the origins of different natural inks and dyes too.

6 Day Painting: continuing 3rd day painting on paper scroll, each day I paint an 18in x 48in strip and roll it up the next day before I start again on a blank section of same roll. this work is about water and the braking up of the ice in the spring or the freezing of the water each fall. It's about change and  how hard change can be.

6 Day Painting and Collaborations with a Stainless Steel Table Top: 2nd day, continuing with wet on wet technique, charcoal coffee paint, Mulberry paper roll, 18 inches x 24 feet.

Day 6 - wet on wet painting with charcoaled coffee paint with egg yolk as binder on roll of Mulberry paper, 18"  x ...............................................................................................................................................................
There are 6 days left to my Canada Council Grant. I am painting a continuous, paper scroll, painting each day, starting where I left off the previous day. Always using my in-studio made charcoal paint. For the past year, each day in my studio has been a learning experience and each day has been a surprise and this has driven my practice. 

Playing with line and form and thinking three dimension-ally