Dear readers,
Today I continued yesterday’s experiment, with ‘compositions within compositions’. I looked at every part of the painting if there was some ‘unteresting’ piece.
It’s always a miracle: yesterday it was clearly in ‘the messy middle’, and even thought it looked hopeless, and today, I was able to finish it!
I titled this daily painting entry ‘Quinacridone Gold is my hero’. I wrote about Golden Fluid Acrylics Quinacridone Gold in another blog post. And I’m still surprised what a miracles it does for paintings. It ‘glues’ parts together (it’s one of the ways I made all those little ‘squares’ or ‘rectangles’ come together (in my humbled opinion ;-).
Another thing that helped to bring the painting together was the linework, I think. For instance: I added the outer lines on the figure on the grey square. They went on top of the other ‘fields’. This way, it didn’t stay isolated in its own field, but made connectiosn with the other fields.
Maybe, this doesn’t make sense to you – but these were my thoughts this morning about this painting.
Below you’ll find the finished painting:
Bye!
Have a wonderful and creative day!
Simone, thank you for inviting me to walk around inside your thinking process. I put yesterday’s messy middle and today’s finished painting side by side on my screen, and explored with a welcome depth of understanding because of your discussion of how you used quin gold and linework. The addition of those two simple lines was particularly fascinating and instructive!
Dear Dotty, thanks! It has been so interesting, there are so many ‘thoughts’ running through my head lately – not annoying thoughts, but insightful thoughts. About how the creative process works, what plays a part in an interesting painting. The ‘gates’ are open in my head… ;-)