franwatson

franwatson
I spent an evening trying to figure out how to work this dumb thing. Like everything else on the net, it relies a great deal on temperment.

So I did finish a painting. I've been in a serious block for the past few months. Partly because there was so much else going on in my life, and partly... well, who knows what fuels blocks. Most of my work has been dark lately. (but so has my life been) This new one, untitled, unsigned, and I don't even know which way I want to hang it, is lighter. I've been intrigued by works that have white laid over colored backgrounds, utilizing the brushstrokes as an element. Since white acrylic easily allows underpainting to remain, even if indecipherable, there is a mystery involved in areas thus treated.

Once again, it was simply a matter of painting until something happened. I wish there was an easier way to accomplish the same thing, but I'm always a bit put off by work that obviously occurred too easily. It could be my dislike for formula painting. A method I've found most seriously abused by J.M.W. Turner among others.