Saturday, July 11, 2009

Workin' Big, Makin' Progress...

"Discovering Myself Along the Way"
4' x 5'

Well, it's my largest canvas yet... I am further along than what is represented in this photo right now, I'd say it's about 3/4's full of paint at the moment. One thing is for sure, it is no where near the vision I had in my head of what I originally wanted to paint! BUT, that is ok. Because I really committed to not worrying about the final product and just allow myself to "play". I wanted to see what would happen if I didn't plan it all out.

I am pretty pleased with it so far. The color is all crazy right now, but as soon as I can get the rest of it mapped in, I will tweak that anyway.

Right now I am just having fun...

Fun obsessing over all the negative/positive shapes getting sculpted with every brush stroke.

Fun trying to keep my right arm from falling asleep.

Fun using my new tube of Manganese Blue...

Fun discovering how much I enjoy taking the worrying out of painting!

3 comments:

Arco Scheepen said...

Great start!
In my opinion it's only good that it's not going to be as you've envisioned it. It means you are 'going with the flow'. That's always my problem: envisioning and thinking too much and not following the flow...
Cheers,
Arco

Jennifer Phillips said...

I agree. I also am starting to find out the hard way that abandoning the planning phase can also cause issues with composition and color... all of which I am struggling with right now. AND when it is on a big piece, the issues are even bigger!
I am sure I will work it out...

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