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Kanab, A Visual Memory

Yesterday afternoon I drove from Las Vegas Nevada to Kanab Utah, through the desert and mountains, listening to Stravinsky and watching the sun slowly drop lower in the sky, casting lovely deep purple shadows through the landscape. I arrived in Kanab too late in the day to visit Best Friends, but made the most of my evening settling in and getting to know my roomie Dottie, a wonderfully opinion gray and white kitty wise in years. We are getting along famously.

I then pulled out my paints and decided to try an exercise in visual memory. Using casein (a milk based paint with some wonderful properties – I am just learning to work with it), I quickly laid down boldly colored stripes that would make up my landscape, adding layers of glaze (watered down casein) and modeling the shapes of the cliffs, sky and desert all from memory.

I can't wait to take my paints into the sanctuary! I'll be there first thing tomorrow......

Thanks, as always, for looking at - and sharing - my artwork and musings with your friends and family.
Kim

PS I will have intermittent internet access while here, which means my posts will hit a day later. It also means I'll not be as responsive to emails – but I promise to reply to your inquiries as soon as I possibly can.

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  1. Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson8:27 PM

    Wow, I'm so jealous that you are so close to this amazing scenery! And OMG you did it! 1000' NOW WHAT??? Besides the wine, of course.

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  2. Kimberly Kelly Santini10:44 PM

    "Now what" is a great question!! I'm working on a large collage (hooray for collage!) headed to a competition and building an exciting and complex composition for an (important to me) juried exhibition. Plus working on my 3rd book, readying myself for the holiday portrait season, and trying to enjoy the last week of summer vaca. That'll keep me busy for a couple days!

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