Usually when you visit an artist’s web site, or show, you see finished work and the pieces the artist wants you to see. Which means you see the things they have selected from the output from their studio.
With these daily projects you see what I have painted that day regardless if I think it to be ‘one of my best paintings’ (you can visit my other website for that! www.danyoungart.co.uk) There is of course a quality control that I employ for the daily paintings which means you don’t see some of the ‘happy accidents’ that maybe weren’t quite so happy, but you still don’t witness the evolution of an idea, especially as I set up the paintings to be a series and to follow certain rules which takes away some of the decision making that I would normally do when approaching a new drawing or painting and not those important paintings that don’t quite work.
This year I am changing the format quite a bit and I really am not sure (in a positive and exciting way) what the paintings at the end of the year will look like. What I do know is that I am not going to paint objects, at least not whole objects. One of the big rules from the last two years was that the entire object must fit into the painting, including its shadow. The next 365 paintings will not feature an entire object, they may nor not even have an object in the painting at all. I am going to paint the places where objects might live or backgrounds. Which really is what I haven’t been painting for two years. I have started with the little platform that I place objects on to paint. This is always painted as a pristine white surface that the objects inhabit. In reality it has cake crumbs, grubby fingerprints, paint marks and the odd pencil mark and shadows. So, it is all that stuff I will be investigating over the coming 365 days join me and watch the paintings evolve! www.danyoungdaily.blogspot.com
