Ok, so I am continuing to limit my palette and I am considering the surfaces I am working on. Some have a history of marks, and others are pristine and new.
The marks I am making are affected by the texture of the surface, but also affected by the look of the surface and my reaction to my own marks in paint.
The black and white painting on cardboard formed into painting in a grid pattern, which reminded me of the way Clare Smith uses chinese practice paper (http://w0budong.wordpress.com/clare-smith/)
For this painting I had a warm up first – getting ridiculous marks out of the way on paper a bit.
Then I decided to carry on with the limiting of my palette and see how far I can take burnt sienna with white. I do find the addition of black useful to add wider tonal variation, but the way I have been applying it, it just overpowers everything else. So remove it until I control my use of it!
The previous painting “&scrawl” was done on raw canvas with water added to the paint.
The painting I’ve done today was done over an old painting in several stages and I am straight away finding that it’s much less free and feeling restricted by the stiffness of the surface. Not entirely sure why I am so against this now. (Will have a think about that).
So, now college has finshed for the term, I am without inside painting space and so for now the garden will have to do.
The photos I’ve put with this post were taken while the paint was wet. The dried canvas will be quite different because it is left outside out of necessity. Either this painting is done outside and left there to dry or not done at all. The choice between making work this way or not at all, no hesitation there then.
This painting was done in the same way as the one on the 11th, but I am sure the dried result will be quite different. I just had to do it as I want to see what the dried result will be – I didn’t get to see the one done on the 11th dry.
The painting I did today was too formulaic – the next one I do I will try to start without methods or gestures in mind.
I have when found painting and seeing what develops out of my gestures that I often come back to the gesture of writing in one way or another. In this painting it is particularly prominent.
