Above, see a picture of this painting in progress. This painting almost done? This painting done? I don’t know. I am not sure of the name, or the state of affairs, but I am sure that it is a painting. Cuba Libre? I am letting it simmer.
I made a painting mistake last night that I haven’t recovered from. Was working on one of the other pieces and didn’t have some brushes wet enough and the acrylic black was clumping… and, well, there will definitely be some recovery happening.
Much of my time lately has been in looking. In using so much color and playing with tones, the shape of shadows and the range of the color spectrum has my eyes all over it lately. Caught myself looking at a coffee cup from Au Bon Pain and seeing the bright yellow give was to a dull orange-yellow where the lid created shadow. The curve of the cup and the text. I haven’t spent so much time with colors and shadow, and playing this against the stark contrast—high black shadows and lines—of comic books spawned from fashion magazines is an interesting game. As is the heavy line against subtle color tone as in the brand of mojito I am mixing on canvas pictured above.
Question: How much of painting is looking?
Oh, and if no one has told you lately: Xo, xxx, xo x x ooox oxoo x!
And blame the reflective, swooping, disjointed and intellectual writing style on John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee. I have been reading “Darker Than Amber.”
I made a painting mistake last night that I haven’t recovered from. Was working on one of the other pieces and didn’t have some brushes wet enough and the acrylic black was clumping… and, well, there will definitely be some recovery happening.
Much of my time lately has been in looking. In using so much color and playing with tones, the shape of shadows and the range of the color spectrum has my eyes all over it lately. Caught myself looking at a coffee cup from Au Bon Pain and seeing the bright yellow give was to a dull orange-yellow where the lid created shadow. The curve of the cup and the text. I haven’t spent so much time with colors and shadow, and playing this against the stark contrast—high black shadows and lines—of comic books spawned from fashion magazines is an interesting game. As is the heavy line against subtle color tone as in the brand of mojito I am mixing on canvas pictured above.
Question: How much of painting is looking?
Oh, and if no one has told you lately: Xo, xxx, xo x x ooox oxoo x!
And blame the reflective, swooping, disjointed and intellectual writing style on John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee. I have been reading “Darker Than Amber.”
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