Dear readers,
I guess I am repeating myself, but today I worked on an even bigger format: 60/60 cm (that is 24/24″).
I already had that canvas here for a while: I painted it over, because I did not like that one anymore.
And about repeating myself: still I have been learning a lot today. Working on 50/50 cm is different from working on 60/60.
I really liked to work on canvas. It is so much more ease to handle the painting. And also: I don’t have to think about the borders. On paper I always have to worry if the paper will not be too big or too small for the frame or the panel on which I want to glue it, or if I paint too close to the border. On a canvas these problems dont exist.
And: I don’t have to cut the wallpaper every time.
The other side is of course that they take space and are relatively expensive.
I might just start painting on canvases, and then paint them over if I don’t like them anymore. Have to think about it.
Right now I think it has been enough for a while with these colours. But I am afraid all these shapes and scribbles might want to stay for a while. And I also might come back to these colours when I will be painting on yet another scale.
thank you for visiting! Have a nice day,
Simone
Hello Simone and Dotty, just letting you know that i am here witnessing this dialogue, loving the evolving paintings and acute observations and flights of fancy, enjoying these processes immensely.
Hi Madeleine!
How very nice to meet you here! It is wonderful to know that there are more like minded people around, and I am happy to notice again that I am not painting in a void ;-) !
Thanks for your comment!
Dear Dotty!
Thank you so much for your comments (and the one yesterday and the day before yesterday). I will answer them soon.
Yes, it is a very interesting journey. One of my next steps will be painting over a 100/100 cm canvas, that I still keep from 15 years ago or something like that. I probably have to think a bit about that one.
How will it be to paint on that size?
Yes, and I indeed recognize associations with the natural world in it. I see something interstellar in it – galaxys and so on. But also cells being connected to each other in the body. It is an ongoing journey.
When I see all those blue/yellow/green shapes together: it is a bit much. Like I have no other ideas that these….
I wonder how this all will evolve.
Thanks so much for following me and supporting me. That means very much.
Simone
Simone, I am following your investigation of different scales and surfaces with great interest and admiration. These colors, shapes, and scribbles continue to appeal to me. I sense so much life in them—human life and the life of the natural world. Energy and interaction.
In the same way that I can see a central large shape in this piece, with smaller shapes below it and still smaller shapes above, I can imagine a grouping of the series you have done using these colors with this piece in the center, smaller pieces below and smallest pieces above.