I had so much fun with the painting #313- ODE TO HUNDERTWASSER this past weekend that I decided to try something similar only really large. The painting I started today is 30″ x 36″. That’s about the size of a dishwasher.
Ok. So this is the painting from Saturday. It is gouache and I did it without any planning. It started abstract and then I went in the direction my first strokes took me.
Already, I’ve done too much planning on this one. I created a small sketch or map you might say. I also have been thinking a great deal about color and pattern before I put it down on the paper.
I think it’s bad news. I should have went from the gut like last time. The sky is traditional and painterly yet the foreground is more of a 2 dimensional pattern. The two styles contradict one another. Tomorrow I will begin the task of flattening the sky and adding more detail to the patterns in the front.
I’m sure something cool will come from it, but already I want to try again without planning, you know, simply intuitively paint.
That is the one thing I hate about this daily blog. I totally do not want to show my work today. I feel completely vulnerable. I’d never show this step of a painting if I knew I was going to scrap it. I guess that is what’s cool about blogging though. It’s real. Not every day is perfect.
We shall see what tomorrow brings to this painting.
On another note, I was complaining Saturday that I ran out of yellow gouache. What was frustrating is that I still have plenty of every other color but yellow. I guess I’m a little heavy-handed in the yellow department.
I mention this because I had the coolest thing happen to me at South County Art Supply. I went in and bought a new six-pack of gouache paint because I needed the yellow. I was telling the owner this and the next thing I know, she slipped a yellow paint tube in my bag. It was yellow gouache from her own personal set. I think that says so much about Andrea and her mom & pop art supply store. When I tell her what I like and dislike about certain products, the very next time I come in, she has thought of a solution. When I need something she doesn’t carry, she orders it lickety-split. She also does a great job educating me about what’s new on the market. I’m sure I’ve already said this, but I’m so very glad to have S.C.A.S right here in our little town. It is such an asset. Thank you!
On that note, I’m headed back to the kitchen to put my mom-hat back on. Got to get dinner on the table ASAP!
See you tomorrow!
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