Works In Progress
Just making a few posts to show you what it is I’m working on at the moment.
I need to increase my output of work now that the writing part of the course is over, but I find that difficult to do when working in glazes and layers, even when I work on multiple paintings at once. Currently working on eight works, two of which are these;
The blue painting is being done on a shed door I had spare in the garden.
It’s only in the preliminary stages but I’m happy with the form and the way it’s going. Need to pick up some more ultramarine and white before I can do anymore. Will try and experiment with changing the form around a little to make some new paintings.
The red painting is also in the early stages with only three layers.
I’m quite liking the simpleness of it, which I didn’t think I would. I will add more layers and perhaps introduce a third colour, it may work.
An artist that has really influenced me since writing my dissertation has been Ellsworth Kelly. My dissertation examined whether his works should be considered as paintings or as objects, or both, and I seem to be considering this in my own studio work quite a bit now; a key aspect of my paintings is that I no longer work on canvas, or even like working on canvas anymore. I much prefer to work on old wooden boards. Although Kelly created his own irregularly shaped panels, and thus allowed his work to be considered as breaking the boundary between painting and object, the fact that I use an old shed door or a piece of wood off a shed roof, is questioning the same theme.
I had briefly considered using irregular shaped boards, but the forms I use are mainly rectangular or square, so I’m not sure if that’s the direction I need to take.
I’m now looking at cutting wooden boards down to fit a few canvas frames I have.
