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I usually am just sick of it. There's a conversation you're having with the painting. It needs this, this isn't right. You have to fix this. And then those little, that little dialogue seems to get very, very quiet. And if you keep trying to push it, that's when I think a painting can kind of die in front of you.
I follow whatever zone I'm in and it just takes me there. But afterwards, I see that I've been affected by the light, the winter, very white light or in the summertime, the late days and the long sunsets. And then I exaggerate them. So that's the difference, but I don't really know that I'm doing it.
Colors represent emotion inherently. There's an inner palette. I always view things, when I was an actor as well, as about color. It's like an explosion of color. Colors have emotion.
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Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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