It has been a very long time since my last post.  I’ve been very busy teaching and learning new stuff about pastels.  I love Dawn Emerson’s work and especially love that she has a book on her many processes that I own.  So for my students I chose to demonstrate a brayer under painting using Akua black intaglio ink. It was fun rolling out some black ink without a complete plan and just letting go.  When I got to color I found myself not worrying about it as it relates to subject, but more as it relates to value, harmony and intensity.  I wasn’t worried and the process felt very intuitive.  One of my students remarked how relaxed I was as if I wasn’t thinking about anything in particular.  I laughed!  I was in a zone.