Dear readers,
Today I felt like painting big, so I decided to paint one big (100/100) painting over, since I had no big canvases left, and I can’t store more, so I am not going to buy new ones before the exhibition.
I really liked to work big again, and to freely put first layers on it. My confidence that things will get all right in the end has been growing the last days, and made me less afraid of just painting along, having fun like a kid that is making a mess on the paper.
I also started a second canvas (painted that one over too). I started this second one because there is so much drying time with big canvases. Huge drawback if you don’t want to sit with the hairdryer in your hands all days.
I am really happy with the molotiv marker, as I said before.
Probably going on with this the coming weeks.
I have been making an inventarisation for the exhibition. I was inspired by Nicholas Wilton to archive my work in a certain way. See here and here.
I decided to start numbering from the start (only the more or less interesting paintings). So I looked all over my old posts and wrote numbers and dates down.
So nice to see the development I have made in the last two years of painitng. Even the development in the past few months is big. Since I started not so long ago, the learning curve is still steep, I think (I don’t mean to be bragging, I think it just works this way).
That’s why I painted over one of the big paintings of a few months ago: it already felt ‘over and done’.
I don’t care to paint over things. It is nice to have an exhibition, but I paint for the fun of painting itself (at least most of the time…;-))
bye, have a nice day and thanks for visiting,
Simone
Hi Dotty, thanks for your answer!
Yes indeed: Dutch brick. I would NEVER have noticed that!. Just send you a dm via Instagram… for more Dutch bricks.
I painted over with titanium white paint, but I think there is something like Titanium buff. Never know what that is, but slowly I start to think that it is white that creates a buffer between the old and the new layer. Have to check that out.
After that I put transparent layer of (guess what) Nickel Azo Gold on it. It helps later to create unity when I put that color on top of other colours to. But some of it will get covered up with white and other colours of course. So I think many layers will follow.
Bye!
First of all, I LOVE the little peek out your skylight of neighboring buildings. Dutch brick! Very endearing.
Oh, but back to your painting. It feels so freeing and fun when you or any artist paints over an old painting. The fact that that resonates so instantly and feels so exciting to me is a wonderful indicator to me.
Do you begin by painting over with gesso or a background color first to give yourself a new ‘blank’ canvas? In the paintings above, a yellow?
Love the colors, love the mark making, love the process. Your post has me wanting to head to my studio rather than the gym!