Change in Ideas
Lately I have been experimenting with the mixing of colour. After noticing some of my palettes from some of my paintings I found it interesting that I had inadvertently made so many different textures, hues and patterns without being aware of it.
So this week I have started experimenting with this idea. Its harder than I though to be able to exactly reproduce the ‘palette’ effect I was after, which sounds a bit counterintuitive as producing something made at random should be the easiest thing in the world. However I have found I was able to produce some sense of what I was looking for.
I think this type of painting gives another dimension to exploring colour it allows me to look at and use colour in a completely different way than i have been doing. What interseted me the most about this sort of painting is the effects colours can have on the viewer.
There is almost a written dialogue when looking at colour in this way in terms of what the viewer takes from it- I thought this was very interseting and i think i will continue to experiment in this way.
Artist Research- Jean Francois Nielly
Since deciding to explore colour I have come across various artists that have used and manipulated colours either directly or indirectly in their work.
The Artist that first stuck me was the French artist: Jean Francoise Nielly
She is inspired by architecture, not the architecture in Paris- where she works, but architecture as a practice.
She constructs her paintings as an architect would construct a model of a building. She paints bright abstract coloured portraits on a large scale. She predominantly uses a palette knife to work and almost sculpts the paint onto the canvas. She works her way through the contours of the face replacing tonal changes with bright exaggerated colours usually being on opposite sides of the spectrum. This coupled with the large size of her paintings and the sharp lines carved out by the palette knife creates striking, confrontational, energetic and precise pieces of work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hT_l3XyKo8
In a Youtube clip of Nielly working in her studio (link above) she says “There is something too hard and sad about life for me, so I indulge on colours”.
For me Jean Francoise Nielly’s work offered a logistical solution to my first painting in my project. Working on Sierra I found it almost impossible to compile to colours in a way that was tonally convincing. After seeing Jean Francoise Nielly’s paintings however I was able to see how she constructed her paintings through abstract tonal values- which was particularly helpful.
