11th November 2010
The painting I have entitled Hmmm! is progressing nicely. I have a nice little routine going, one day I work on this picture, the next the carnival clowns, and the next I work on the painting for Fractured Vision.
The painting Hmmm! I have given it more structure; you can see definite shapes of things now.
I am experimenting with colour, and using vibrant colours together to see how they bounce off each other, so far I like the effect. I am using pinks, purples, and crimson with oranges, yellows and blues. I am also trying hard not to do the same thing with a paint brush, I am also using a palette knife and using big and small brush sizes, and I am now trying to vary my brush marks, so they don’t all look the same. I have tried to make the head and opposite mask stand out of the painting more, originally it looked flat, but I have used a different brush marking method on the mask and head. I like this painting a lot, I have learned a lot from the carnival clowns which took a lot longer to paint than this painting.
