
I made a thing! More painterly, splodgey randomness!
It was getting a bit off putting that I still hadn’t got those 5 canvases done, so with a little push from my tutor Kath; I decided to go with it and create a a simple piece from merging paint. Its a bit random; out there in connection with my current work, but the colours are right. The technique however could be useful and reminds me of an artist I came across whilst on tumblr, but it was used with a very controlled detailed piece. With this one I can potentially psd it and create the scene I want using it as a backing.
The subject matter of the painting itself is nothing specific, I began by merging the blue tones with the white using the pallete knife and rolling the paint into the darker colours. But at the original angle of the painting I see figures, shapes or animals surrounded by a darkened wood. Upside down you see more of the green on the forest and the groves the palette knife created, make the roots visible. Whereas the blue in the darkness is suggestive of a night’s sky and there’s a man’s face. Or it’s just a pretty stained glass window interpretation. Either way the quickness of this piece reminded me of how much time I don’t need to spend in this project, and I should be using it as a means to stoke the fire of creativity.