Dancing With Trees
DWT - work in progress
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Dancing With Trees is an example of work that does not reflect the original vision I had.
I’m not giving up on this one even though it’s kind of past its prime.. in photos you can’t feel the presence of its size. This happened with the 8′ Sun Shower too…feeling that I’m on to something here even if I can’t get it to work in this particular painting. As with a few other recent paintings, I think the ambition about the subject overtook the wisdom to see when it was finished…rather, back when it was acceptable as finished. I’m looking for paintings to be more than acceptable though, so I’m not giving up on this one; how will I ever know if I don’t try and make them so? Failure still has potential for success when you try to do something about it. Most paintings need a rest period. I might take the palette knife to it…
Dancing With Trees - WIP
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Dancing With Trees - a work in progress, as most paintings are, even after submitting them in to juried exhibitions! Am still having doubts about the sky; not quite dark enough to contrast with the small amounts of bright coming from sunset and stars; will study that and possibly adjust. Layers of glaze used in the recent stages: Hansa yellow light, Pthalo blue, Pthalo green, Permanent green, thio violet, Mars black, Cadmium red light, Dioxazine violet
It’s the sky’s turn
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
It’s the sky’s turn to dance!
White glaze will attach itself to the varnish I dripped on the other day. ~ Dancing With Trees ~
Dancing With Trees - progress
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Dancing With Trees, started August 30th - 48 x 48 Acrylics on canvas - progression details are combined into one post. The Oil Pastel with the same name, posted in March 2007, inspired the painting.
I’ve tried lots of new things with this one - am hoping to keep just the impression of branches; I don’t want too many details. Using washes and glazes to help create the cedar branch texture I’ve dripped water, paint and varnish across patches of color, and also tried splattering it on with a brush and painting upside down.