Imagination and art
After a rocky start this morning I thought it was ‘one of those days’. You know the sort, where well intentioned things can get messy. I was reworking around 8 oil paintings which were waiting around for me to get started. Some were landscapes just a little too literal so they needed a mush around to loosen them up. Others were nondescript marks on rectangles of gessoed paper. I often find rectangles difficult to resolve so I will cut them into squares which are more forgiving when aiming for an abstraction.
After a coffee I began making colour changes to this abstract painting and squeegeed some larger shapes. I resisted the urge to tidy them up and left them making their own statement. The oil painting stayed as a rectangle and seems to work so it can dry now and join the others on the wall. ‘Sound of the Shore’…Oils on paper
‘Spring Greens’…a simple oil sketch on 6 inch paper. Marks made by sweeping a silicone Messermeister scraper loaded with paint across the surface. I didn’t want to add more so I just softened the green with a rag until it was like mist. That’s all it needs to say. Because it doesn’t take many minutes to make a little painting like this it might feel as though it’s not enough.
However, the less we say is sometimes best.
From mistakes to meaning…one of the squares made from a rectangular landscape I made yesterday. It was too much like a real landscape so it had to morph into an abstraction or into the bin. Waste not want not came to mind so after cutting off a chunk it was easier to add my own personality. I like it now. It has a sense of mystery asking the viewer to decide, land or sea or forest or moor? The choice is yours.
Oils on gessoed paper around 12 inches.