"More Than Meets the Eye" I, II, and III

I recently completed these three acrylic paintings. I had been feeling a bit creatively 'stuck' and decided to try something completely different. These three paintings have extremely textured surfaces using various types of acrylic ground mediums (fiber paste, coarse pumice gel, crackle paste, gesso..basically anything I had on hand!) While the substrate was still wet I literally wrote into the wet mediums some of my frustrations….prayers, if you will. I didn't have a still life set up, nor did I work from a photo reference. With the first one, I actually started out painting an abstract but it wound up being a floral still life so I carried that theme on with the subsequent two……it was a fun and cathartic exercise and helped me get back on track!!