Stretched Thin – Wave Portrait No. 144

Stretched Thin-Wave Portrait No. 144, 5×7″ pastel painting of a wave in purple, gray and blue by Marie Marfia.

This is how I feel when I am in the middle of a project, in this case, re-doing my website, and I’m not familiar with the software, and there are too many choices, and the directions I’m following are three years old, so nothing matches, and I decide, screw it, I’m just going to do what I want, and all the while in the back of my mind I’m thinking, “I just want the work to  already be done. I hate learning new things. Just leave me alone in my corner, sitting in a puddle of ignorance. I’m tired of all if it!”

This painting occurred to me while I was doing yoga of all things. I thought it was about feeling transparent, but it turned out to be about feeling inadequate to the task at hand.

Here are the progress pictures. I included a picture of the pastels I used for this painting.

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4 thoughts on “Stretched Thin – Wave Portrait No. 144

  1. ehwfram

    I am really enjoying the progression shots you have been including lately.
    I feel for you with the website re-do — there are a lot of days when I feel like working with the computer is an issue of two steps forward, one step back. It kills me that it can eat so much time.

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    1. Marie Marfia Post author

      Yes! I keep telling myself that once everything is in place (and working properly) it will make my arty life more efficient. There’s a payoff around here somewhere. I just have to press on until it shows up.

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