Another WIP
Okay, so here is another WIP. I really don’t know what I am doing with this one. I began it back in JUNE! Yes, June! I can’t decide how I want to proceed with it, either. When I first started, I was thinking jewelry…layers of jewel tones and silver…big collar of metal and color kind of thing.
Now, my apologies for stuffing here, but I am not able to post tomorrow until late, so I thought I would pop this one on here for you to see now. But if you haven’t seen the post just below this one, don’t hesitate to comment there, too…or anywhere!
Have a Beautiful Day!
Playing Around…
This is a quick shot…clearly not centered and not well lit…of one of the things I have been doing in my studio. Yes, I even threw some paint on the wall…but I had not painted that room on purpose and will have to prime it anyway (wallpaper).
I seem to do this. When I have been out of the studio for a while, I tend to want to do something which is poured or thrown rather than brushed. I wonder why that is? This is actually a bit of all three (poured, thrown and brushed). First it is a canvas which was painted before, and I wasn’t crazy about it at all. So I painted over the original with Paynes Grey and allowed some of the paint from before show through. Then I poured some paint (pinks, lavenders, blues). Once that dried…took a while…I mixed some pearl acrylic with some of the clear glaze of which I have become so fond and painted that over the whole thing. I did this 4 times…once vertically, once horizontally and in two different oblique directions. The last thing I have done here is to pour and throw the same colors over the dried pearl effect.
What techniques appeal to you when you have been away from your studio for some period of time? Do you paint over or use parts of previous works you are not pleased with? By chance would your studio wall be reminding you of a Pollock?
I have no idea where this is going, if it goes anywhere. But I thought why not show you messes, too. It is all acrylic on a 30″ x 40″ canvas.