This Eason’s work is coming to an end. Spring is almost here, and everything I have been looking at and painting in the past few months will be gone very shortly.

Believe it or not, I could go on painting winter: the colors and spaces I have been studying are making their way into me and I am beginning to see where I can take the work farther. That will make for a very good start next winter. But before I put the sketches away, I want to take a long look at them and ask myself:

What have I learned that I can apply to the next body of work?
What do I want to bring forward, and how?

Some things I don’t command: they simply happen after I’ve done the work of careful observation. Then stepping back and reviewing the work also fosters new ideas.

So now it’s time to wrap up my sketches, but not before I take from them what will grow with the next season.

Louise Jalbert,  “Blue Shadow”,  2018,  Gouache on paper, 11 x 14 inches