The Trailblazer
No, Trailblazer is not a new gadget, nor is it a painting technique. Well at least not a desirable one.
Trailblazer is the name of a recent painting I did. It looks nice enough but the final result didn’t entirely measure up to what I imagined. It happens. I was experimenting with the Reverse Dip technique but didn’t want the usual flowery look, so I was kind of making it up as I went along. I wasn’t entirely sure if, or how it would work. I had left it to dry, and posted a picture of the as yet unnamed painting on Facebook. Most of those who posted agreed that it had an unintended Christmas-y look to it.
And then the Trailblazer happened. A painting in this style typically takes about 48 hours for paint to dry enough to handle it. While still wet, a tiny moth, or maybe it was a fruit fly, decided to check out the art up close and personal. Too close, in fact. You can see exactly where it landed, the trail it blazed as it tried to escape, and then its final resting place, coated in so much thickening green paint that it couldn’t go any further, rendering it unidentifiable.
A lot of deep analogies to life could be made here, but I’m not going to get philosophical. It’s just a bug that decided to immerse itself in my art. Now that’s a real fan!
Upon initial examination I could see how it would be fairly easy to fix the damage. But then I realized the best part of the piece might well be its story. It doesn’t bug me (wink wink nudge nudge).
** With thanks, and a gold star ⭐️ to Barb Currado for coming up with the name “Trailblazer” and to Beth Hasilo for suggesting the runner-up “It Doesn’t Bug Me”.
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