Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

I started what was to be a simple 24x36 painting while up at the cottage this week . I had an image and the colors of the painting in my head but just did not focus or want to focus on getting that out. My husband got frustrated with me and kept coming over and asking me if this is the idea that I talked about. For some reason or something else was coming out. My good friend Leslie, who may I say can also be sneaky caught most of the transformation of this painting on camera with out me know most of it. The pictures should be revealed shortly. No humans were hurt in the processing of this painting. 

I don't really like to talk about this but my paintings help relieving the pain that I have been living with. I work mostly at night while everyone is enjoying a good sleep which is something I don't do much of. Without getting into details, the only thing that helps me at this point to relieve my pain, is work on my paintings. I could try to stay in bed and fight not being able to sleep but I choose to not fight it and walk like a zombie around the house in the midst of the night and paint. I see the sun rise very often and I used to love it because it was very rare that I would see it but now it see it almost every couple of days. The joke here is not have a good night sleep but try to get sleep. I keep telling myself, "I am bigger than my pain" and do some deep breathing. So far nothing has helped me stay asleep for more than an hour. So here are some of the latest paintings

Our friend's Ce and Rick who host House Concerts have asked me if I would be interested in bringing some of my art work to sell when they had artist Mary Gauthier doing a concert. She was amazing and along with singing her own songs, she tells a little story b/4, after and during her song. And to top it off, she had a great sense of humor. This is the second concert that I have sold my art work there and have been very fortunate to make some good sales. I Thank you all for supporting local original art.

I have been meaning play with Flow aid release for a while so today I took out all my old inks and two 14 x 18 canvases and went ahead and just played around . It takes quite a bit of time for this product to dry so I put them out in the sun for the afternoon. Next week I will have a look at them and start doing some blocking out with white.