I thought I would update my small part of the web with some new paintings. I completed these paintings far too close to the deadline date for the Threadneedle Prize last week. But I got them in on time and they were dry! Thank you Mr Siccative!
I have used the library of objects that I have built up over the 200 odd days of my current daily painting project http://danyoungdaily.blogspot.com to select from. Some of the objects I painted during this project I have kept on various shelves and pots around the studio not really knowing why but always wondering how they would work together in small groups or even large groups of all of them. 365 objects in one painting, oh boy!
These three pictures grew out of a selection process based on sympathetic or contrasting ideas. So, the soft kangaroo head gets paired up with a sharp mussel shell and (for added anticipation and excitement) an unpopped popcorn kernel. Three very different and, other than their previous selection by me, completely unrelated objects.
I have spent some more time over the weekend creating small groups of objects limiting myself to things I have already painted. More soon I hope.
