Fly Away
I know you have seen this before, but I have a purpose in sharing it with you again.
This was the photograph of a lily which I put through Dumpr. I became interested in the shape in the center of this circle. I am interested in some of the other aspects, too, but this image came to me a lot. Maybe if I just did a bit of sketching it would leave me alone.
I tried a few things like this in a large sketchbook with some charcoal. It was fun to do and made me want to pick up charcoal more often, but it was not enough.
You know where this is leading, don’t you? So here you go:
After a lot of playing around with paint on this canvas, this is what I ended up with. It is 30″ x 40″ gallery wrapped, staple-less canvas in all acrylic. The splattering which appears “white” in the photo is actually pearl glaze. Yes, I know it is not centered and that seemed quite right to me for several reasons…this image knocked me off center a bit and it added to the feeling of flying away. Now, with that in mind, I have decided to title this painting, “Fly Away”. I decided to photograph this before I add the clear glaze as it is a lot easier to get some kind of reasonable photograph. I hope it will leave me alone now.
Does this happen to you when an image continues to irritate until you work through it? Rarely do I have this problem, but this time it drove me crazy. Maybe one of the reasons is I could not paint as often as I wanted to paint. I do not know.
I hope to spend some time in the studio this weekend. I have a few more things I need to accomplish, but that is always the way, right? How about your weekend, are you looking forward to something fun?
Have a Great Weekend!
