The painting is nearly the width of my studio. The painterly ‘sun’ is setting and has given me joy in my heart, its good to be back. Goodbye computer, hello paint!
Category: Works in progress
I think top left is the most pleasing composition, with a low horizon there’s that sense of space and distance. These are to scale but the actual painting is 200 x 130cm, that’s a lot of sky! Plenty of room for the starlings, which are a key part of the painting.
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Whilst priming the board for my piece for the outside wall and thinking what to paint, I thought I’d just whack some paint directly on the wall. The ridges of glue left behind from the printed canvas on there before made a great texture for picking up paint and overlaying colours.
The result was a kind of Monet effect, until abstraction became an abortion! Classic case of of going too far and ruining it. This is what can happen when I don’t have anything in mind as to what I’m painting, I don’t take it seriously and get carried away, then attempts to rescue the piece only make it worse. Not the best method for such a public piece. Best get down there again tomorrow and do something with it.
It wasn’t too bad at this stage:
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