18" x 24" Acrylic and Collage on Wood
I had to get somewhere with this painting before the Full Moon, which is tomorrow.
The Mustang represents Aquarius - self-contained, wild, the water bearer - mane filled with static electricity of the storm...walking by a wind-tossed river, with a great Anvil Cloud in a purple stormy sky...and a bolt of lighting cutting through from the constellation of Aquarius
still just a sketch - I am going to redo this on this one:
I might make it a cut out collage of a pitcher pouring out the constellation - not sure yet.
Still have to fix the sky - blend from purple to black inside the mane...
And smooth the mountains and maybe the water as well so they are not competing in busy-ness with the main character...
This horse is made of 6 different Gelli prints pulled on 12/22 during the Mystical Days...
I think I am going to also go back in and cut out his face - I see his eye and mouth and I want them delineated by collage not paint...
So I still have a lot of work till the end of February. As I paint this painting, a dear friend of mine lies in a hospital bed with bipolar mania and COPD ... I have visited the hospital every other day and been named his medical proxy through this process which does not give me any legal ground but I am the voice of the baseline guy...and now I am also seeking guardianship over him. He is going to be 73 and he has a brain injury such that he cannot take care of himself - he has been chronically homeless for many years.
So, I also feel that this horse represents him - ruggedly invidualistic and fiercely autonomous, however now he is causing harm to others in his mania which is not fair to them, as well as to himself by bad decisions. Against his will, he will be placed in a skilled nursing facility unless he passes away from dysphagia before then... until then he will live in the hospital.
I hope and pray for the latter.
Previous Posts
https://peakd.com/hive-186308/@in2itiveart/aquarius-mystical-days-portal-for-the-mustangs-post-1
Here's the Background Info:
https://intuitiveart.net/wild-mustangs/the-bureau-of-land-management-wild-mustang-roundups-are-an-inhumane-act-of-cruelty/
Previous Posts
Capricorn Painting Post 4: https://peakd.com/hive-186308/@in2itiveart/capricorn-mystical-days-portal-for-the-mustangs-post-4
Capricorn Painting Post 3: https://peakd.com/hive-186308/@in2itiveart/capricorn-mystical-days-portal-art-post-3
Capricorn Painting Post 2: https://peakd.com/hive-186308/@in2itiveart/capricorn-mystical-days-portal-art-fundraiser-for-mustangs
Capricorn Painting Post 1: https://peakd.com/hive-186308/@in2itiveart/capricorn-started-on-1230-the-new-moon-along-with-the-prints
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