The night the crocodile eat the moon

I am continuing to paint on glass for monoprinting. I like the quick build up of wet paint and the stickiness the printing medium gives it. I seem to have a confidence and a directness that I am loosing when I move over to larger canvases. I am giving them a heavy ground to reduce the absorbency, although I am thinking of getting some wood or gesso panels to try, maybe a bigger brush a different painting medium. Oh I love to play with paint! So what of the subject, I often feel it is more about the seductive qualities of the paint but I want (think I want) my marks to describe something, water, sand, sky, lichen, rock, light, mood, feelings. I can’t quite believe I have got to this point and feel like I am starting out brand new. Is it the beginning of something or am I having some sort of mid life crisis. I feel like what I am trying to do is so close I could just reach out and touch it. Then the paintings would flow out of me like water from a broken dam. Think I better shush and go get that big brush.

I sat in my studio space last night….stopped, but time is precious do something! I used some old paint left over from a monoprint I had done in the afternoon and slapped it on a canvas that I may know what I am doing with…

I have started working on some monoprints from the reference I have. My thinking is that I can experiment a bit more with smaller works, the medium will keep me quite loose and stop me getting hung up on the detail before I know what it is I am trying to get at. Another reason for this is its messy painterly and I had forgotten quite how much I love working this way. I think I will continue to play with some of these images and see where it takes me. I already feel like I am loosening up. I am also interested in trying to portray the viewer (me) in some way…maybe a toe or an elbow or maybe this belongs to another project I have on the back burner.