Working title: Untitled (Cradled Panel 3)
8x8", Acrylic on Wood
13 MaY 2009
This is another one of the panels I started a day or two ago.
This one started with the light blue, but then I worked in the dark blue before the light was dry. Then I put on the red glaze and spatter. I was very happy with the way the glaze turned out; I'm thinning my paints considerably more than I'm used to, and using a gloss rather than a matte medium, and it makes quite a difference.
For the second session, all I did was cover the entire board with a clear glaze of gloss medium. Adding extra clear glazes adds to the feeling of depth in the color. Or at least, that's the theory; I'm checking it out.
14 May 2009
Not much change here today. I put some very thin vertical glazes into the bottom half, and added some vague vertical structure in the middle left. The blue part has become a seascape to me, and the red is still abstract. I've yet to resolve how to make sense of it all, or how to integrate the two parts, if at all. Maybe it will be about the juxtaposition of the red and the blue.
I'm beginning to sense a form lurking in the red, though. This will be an interesting painting to develop.
2 June 2009
I committed to the seascape idea. I put in some white and lighter blue in the sky, earth tones on the two tall "islands" on the left, land on the right, something rockish in the foreground, and a sailboat on the red stripe.
I like the direction this took. Now I need to fix the reflection of the left "island", glaze over the sailboat and white paint that is currently sitting on top of the red stripe, and see how it looks at that point.