I decided to retire my one-a-day black and white composite landscape used for much of the last freewheeling paintings......perhaps too much of a good thing makes it ordinary.
My freewheeling binge did expose a preference I would like to expand further on canvas and more importantly here for the benefit of SIP team members.
When I become very comfortable with an idea unusual colour rhythms often come out much stronger. Its a fast moving balancing act with a spinning brush that produces random abstract marks often concluding with coloured square marks. Perhaps a signature move.
In this case, the random vermillion squares were a direct result of the signature bar. This last minute move established a colour moment from left to right...... Actually it connected all similar colors and helped move the eye throughout the whole painting simply with an unexpected colour, vermilion.
My freewheeling binge did expose a preference I would like to expand further on canvas and more importantly here for the benefit of SIP team members.
When I become very comfortable with an idea unusual colour rhythms often come out much stronger. Its a fast moving balancing act with a spinning brush that produces random abstract marks often concluding with coloured square marks. Perhaps a signature move.
In this case, the random vermillion squares were a direct result of the signature bar. This last minute move established a colour moment from left to right...... Actually it connected all similar colors and helped move the eye throughout the whole painting simply with an unexpected colour, vermilion.
Friday 24x24 oil on linen (3-2-18 canvas 1221)
Painting is a lot about, if not all about following colour movements that establish rhythms, if you will, like music. Black and white or colour references, plein air or life painting make no difference.....movements are there. Learn to recognize and follow them, forget its a landscape or seascape, a pot of flowers or a figure, just follow the light and shadows, painting what you see. Think of yourself as a conductor with a brush, follow the music with music, move with it as if dancing across the canvas.
None of this random nonsense is in the seascape below...or is it? There are a multitude of movements softly applied throughout this painting with louder punctuation but clearly not enough artistic music.
Happy Enough Wednesday 24x24 oil on linen (3-7-18 canvas 1223)
This is a straight forward "what I see" painting. Nothing more, nothing
less, other than a happy enough Wednesday painting....... I wonder
which will leave an impression?
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