Continuing Painting (2)
As with my previous post, this selection of paintings is also about my attempt to move my work forward through excessive painting and experimenting. These works are much the same size except for Untitled (5) & (6), both of which are roughly 25 × 15 cm.
As with before my idea with these works was to have no preconceived plan as such, but to see how I could develop my work from one painting to another. Taking something that worked, or didn’t work, and slightly alter it in another.
For example in Untitled (8) and (9) I tried to use two different contrasting colour pallets because I noticed in my previous paintings the colours where very similar in both layers- similar in the sense that the colours I used were the same but dissimilar in their position.
I hoped that this would create a contrast that would cover the painting as whole instead of in my previous painting where I would use contrasting colours to highlight certain points.
With Untitled (8) I used a very cool palate, mostly shades of blue, purple (see third image from top) I then masked out some areas and painted over the top with some warmer, lighter colours to exaggerate the space created by the tape.
In Untitled (9) I attempted to take it a step further and predominantly used orange for the first layer and blue for the second- two directly contrasting colours. There are hints of yellow, pink and green but these are more of colour and are not dominant in the picture. I believe only using two colours (two dominant colours) it gives the painting more focus. However this is quickly dismissed, or even unnoticed as, there are so many tonal changes, brush markes and flicks of paint with in the two colours.
This is in contrast to Untitled (5) and (6) which have more ‘direction’ to their composition. This is due to the fact that they are much smaller and the tools I was using (ie brushes and sponges were the same size).
