lovely

Truly beautiful! Absolutely gorgeous work!

Love lilac trees & the scent is wonderful. xx

Amazing art work. God bless.

Wonderful!

I’m late on this, but that’s because I didn’t have the same flow of words in me as I had the last few days; but now I do, happily...so I’ll comment on this, and then return for the snow rose ballet in the next day or so...(which I loved as well)

Another image in this new style which I love! You’re getting more and more concrete with this new wild medium, which (may I assume?) means you’re doing more dialogue with it? or taming it more? Whatever it is, you’ve got highly concrete forms here, like shells, with the translucence and modeled surfaces so common to shells---they’re beautiful, Carol. And they're massed together, like a huge family. And your leaves are concrete and almost glass carvings; they have all these flowing ‘parts’, like the enamel on ceramics that flowed and then hardened, forming beautiful gurgling forms. Lots of life in those leaves---I'll take 6 plants! And they have translucence too, like colored glass. And they do dialogue with all the lilac flowers, rushing through them, protecting them. You’ve interpreted the lilac’s many flowers as bundles of little gems; and, as we go down the image, we see the bundles get smaller and smaller, as if the flowers turned into rushing droplets of water. And it all ends in light, on the bottom---I mean, this is a beautiful variation on many of your lower sections (in your paintings): Instead of ending in rich dark hues, swirling like the ground of consciousness, you end here in increasing light, as the droplets morph into liquids. And the forms, instead of being the longer more oblong forms of your earlier paintings, are droplets and dots of light and color.

But that coagulation in the center---whoosh: it’s like a collage with real shells, pebbles and jewels stuck to that bed-of-purples. The image is grounded right there! And the leaves seem to hug the flowers. This image gives the sense of discovering a treasure chest filled with little jewels, and with your own sense of love which flows through this image like a waterfall. A really loving image. Man, you’ve gone through several major morphs since starting with those inks...but that’s a result, I’m sure, of your long experience with art, where you don’t have to wait long to master each step. I love this image as much as the last ones; it’s visceral and intense, giving the feeling of a big ingathering (the flowers) doused in the hues of passion and beauty. Beauteous once again, Carol. This is enthralling.

Thanks so much for your wonderful detailed comment, Mark. As always, I am intrigued with and inspired by your response to my work. What I find so interesting about alcohol ink is that it takes on many organic forms, often unexpected, and so within a gathering of lilacs, shapes become seashells and gems, and many other things. To me that gives the work interest and dimension beyond what I originally intended, even if it can be a bit daunting. With this particular painting, I had it all finished and was attempting to make a few minor shading edits with what is called an alcohol ink blending pen. It is a fat pen that I filled with this special solution that is used to lighten and blend the inks. I must not have put the tip back on properly and when I held the pen over the painting, a huge gush of solution dropped on the lilacs. And immediately erased most of the detail. It was an awful lesson learned. And I had to decide - do I scrap this one or try to save it ... somehow. I chose to see if I could save it. So I am far from taming this wild medium. It's still the boss, and I'm the kid trying to catch up, but we are learning how to relate. :o)

What a delightful image. My fave flower :)

What a gorgeous piece this is. Love the details and the colors and the dreamy feeling you created.

I love the fluidity of this; beautiful!