Dear readers,
Today: another one of the same sort: 20/20 cm, 8/8 inch, same colours as yesterday. I especially like the azurite blue, which is a warm blue that matches well with the other colours.
What I like about this one and the painting of yesterday is the different use of (liquid) paint. The orange drops are very thick drops of paint, they lay upon the paper. It’s almost pure pigment. And then the really thin washed out colours. I also painted over some parts with liquid white paint, which gives it a sort of hazy/misty sphere.
I am glad that I found out that making series is not boring or stupid or repeating yourself, but even the opposite: it gives you space to deepen a theme or subject, to play with techniques and methods and learn the most of them, to really wrench out everything that is possible. And after all you can pick out the best and throw away the rest! So it makes it more easy not to attach so much to this one or that one. You just paint along and only afterward decide if it has enough quality to make it through the end.
I am probably going to repeat this a 10000 times!
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Simone
Yes, thank you.
Today (4 march) I experienced another thing about working in series. I thought when you hit something that ‘works’ you can go on an on with it. But it is funny, three times I did something that ‘worked’ and the fourth time it fell flat on its face. I totally ruined my painting, I did not expect that.
So working in series is not so much getting to know the trick and then play endlessly with it. It is also about searching the boundaries: what can you do and when do you fall of the cliff?
thanks!
Simone
Simone, you continue to inspire me with your spirit of adventure and your fearless painting. I love your discussion above about making series and the opportunities that come from playing with techniques and methods in depth. I wrote a bit about the same topic just yesterday (will post tomorrow, I think; have a birthday post that needs to be in today’s slot), making mention of the same discovery/excitement.