Continuing Painting (3) Size/Scale is becoming an Issue
Picking up from the last point from my previous post; that my paintings Untitled (5) & (6) had more ‘direction’ in their composition and were therefore less cluttered in shapes, patterns, lines and colours than my pervious works, I believe explains my dissatisfaction with my paintings of a larger scale.
My dissatisfaction with my larger paintings is based on their general composition. Nothing in any of them seems structured or organised and is therefore very difficult to formulate in sense of space or colour relationship in any of them.
The main problem is the scale of my paintings.
Untitled (5) & (6) were roughly 25 × 15 cm while the some of my larger paintings are 150 × 100cm. And yet for some reason I am using the same tools to create them both, the same size sponge, brush and making tape. A line created by masking tape, for example, will be (relatively) much larger on a small board than one created on a large board, therein lies my problem. Because of this I have filled my larger painting with more lines, patterns, shapes and colours than I have with my smaller paintings simply because they would “fit”.
I gave no consideration to the composition of these working or how all of these lines, patterns etc would react together. The results there for are a muddle of colours and lines, with not rhythm or order and look as if they are comprised of three or four different painting propped up beside each other.
In hindsight I should have foreseen the problem and begun to scale up all my painting utensils.
I think this is my next step, to produce painting of this size or larger but keeping in mind the composition of the painting, which to put it in black and white means having to scale up all of my lines and patterns etc.
