Snake's Alive

I was right, I started hating this painting. Tonight I painted, now I like it again. There is much work ahead, but the direction is clear and the finish nearly as much so. Once again, I used the intimidation of a more difficult task, or at least one with heavier consequences, to my advantage. Knowing I had to lay down the final skin layer for 'In Tangle' and nail it, I decided instead to aim for lower fruit, the snake and some glazing. It paid off. I was relaxed and open. As a result, I have to keep looking over my shoulder because the painting is creeping me out. I will post it soon, perhaps this weekend if I get the chance to work on it again. I need to harmonize the color in her final layers for it to visually sing first.
It is this act, this forming a picture from thin air, causing an emotional reaction, on a previously blank canvas that really gives testimony to the power of imagery, imagination, and how these things color reality. And by reality I don't mean practicality or prudence or maturity. I mean reality, our surroundings and our results when we interact in it. If you were to walk into my studio right now, you would find me nekkid typing at the computer and drinking wine, then you would see the wet painting just behind me and you would have a reaction either internally or something externally/more expressive. I'm kidding about the nekkid thing, but that imagery caused a change in your chain of reality as well. That change may have lead to a memory or a story or a gag reflex, but whatever the reaction or even lack thereof, your reality altered ever so slightly. This painting would do something similar, maybe even the gag reflex. Reality is chaos really so this implies the butterfly affect = a butterfly flaps it's tissue wings, changing the air around it which passes change on until eventually it chains to a typhoon in Japan. My point is, this painting came from the ether of my mind as imagination. Empty head jokes aside, this imagination can lead to a typhoon of change and in this studio I'm flapping my wings like crazy.
Tonight I worked with Cad Yellow Medium, Burnt Sienna Deep, Golden Alzarin, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ocher, some Flake and some Prussian, but just a swipe.