Dear readers,
Today I worked on the second assignment of Jane Davies. I had to take one of the colour compositions that I made before, and make a colourfield painting inspired by that collage.
I did it, but found it hard to ‘be a good girl and do my homework’. Actually a bit boring.
It is nice to really experiment a lot of colour but ‘my hands itch’ to do something else. (i.e. just paint on intuition).
I guess one should be able to integrate those two: creating freely, only from intuition. And then: creating because you study, you learn something useful from somebody else.
But I find it hard to find that balance right now. And I lean to just simply paint. (But: since I am a good girl I will finish my course ;-))
bye,
Simone
p.s.: here below you find the original collage, and to the right the colourfield painting. The colours look really different: in real life there are much more similar.
Can’t wait to see what might evolve some day from this colorfield study start!
Thanks;-)
You gave me a really good idea. To take this (quite boring) colourfield study as a start for something new. I will keep that one in mind!
Bye!
Simone, you had me laughing in self-recognition more than once as I read your post—I identified with “actually a bit boring,” “hard to find that balance right now” between painting from intuition and applying learned information from study, and “But: since I am a good girl I will finish my course”!!! I also identified with how hard it can be to photograph paintings that show color accurately and consistently.
I do like your colorfield painting. It may have been boring to paint but it holds considerable visual interest. Will you leave it as is, as a completed “assignment,” or might you return to it and use it as a start for an intuitive painting?