Paintings within Paintings

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Something's stirring my creative spirit with bright warm colors and large scale! I'm surprised and enthused with the 'zing' of color and gesture in my recent oil paintings, and they are taking off to a  larger size than ever before! It's so rewarding when the canvases develop and start to 'talk to me' rather than the other way around.... I see marks and moods that arose as something beyond myself, and seem to have a 'powerful tenderness', something that resonates and lasts. On these larger scale works, there seem to be 'paintings within paintings', as sections of the painting hold me eye with room to explore, and then weave in to the painting as a whole. Very fulfilling!