Dear readers,
Today I worked further on a big canvas of 100/100. I was very inspired by the last lesson of Jane Davies (about monochromy and busy-quiet contrast, that I used it in this current painting.
It is work in progress, so I hope to continue soon.
As I discovered the last days: painting areas is not easy for me. There disappear all kind of beautiful things under the new layer. But: it gives back a whole different type of beauty. I think.
A technical problem: it is not easy to paint over black. If the paint is half opaque, you keep seeying the black through. Very annoying. So I think I have to paint over first with a really opaque colour, like titanium white.
bye!
Simone
WOW—the images are showing up when I open your blog now (not true this morning, but true this afternoon). HUGE difference! First of all, what is an art blog without images? But also, the images are BEAUTIFUL. They are larger and appear to be of higher quality. YAY!
Hi Dotty!
Thank you!
So sorry for your friend: that sounds like a very difficult situation. And it is wonderful that you can use bits and pieces of your art to bring some beauty in the world.
I very much like close-ups: mine are often better than the painting itself, I think! I already used to do things like this when I was much younger: I cut out pieces of magazines, and made completely abstract postcards from them. I loved that process – never knew that I would do something like it with my own paintings.
And: they might give ideas for compositions and colour schemes.
bye!
So much fun to see this evolving canvas, and to see experimentation with significant quiet space following lesson 8 and monochromatic color in line with lesson 9. I laughed when I read your musings about layering over black—I was JUST thinking through that problem myself yesterday!
I love seeing your close-up photos; each one makes a sweet painting in its own right. I don’t know if I’ve told you about a dear friend of mine who has been undergoing breast cancer treatment for the past year (double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery mistakes/complications). I’ve chosen to send her a quick email greeting every day, and often what I do is include what I call “zoomies”—little close-up zoom-in sections of my paintings; I’ll send three or four, one per email, and then on a different day reveal the big painting from which they came!