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Sun Shower #4 updates
June 17, 2008
June 19th: My husband said this morning “Uh-oh Nik, you’re losing control of it”. He’s not an Artist, and rarely comments on paintings, but he saw exactly what I was starting to feel about the work. More accurately, I was starting to take too much control.
I added another layer of white diluted with matte medium, then am giving the whole surface a layer of streaks of masking medium to bring all that texture out again that was there at the start. Tomorrow will start another painting and study this one on the side before going back into it.
June 19th June 17th
June 17th: Work still in progress, and have shifted gears unexpectedly. I should expect the unexpected by now, but I guess that’s the nature of the unexpected isn’t it?! Above: bottom left detail. I felt that there was not enough story or interest holding attention in the painting. I started recreating a memory of laying on the forest floor looking up…will maintain the abstract and extreme perspectives throughout.
June 14th June 17th
Sun Shower #4 - June 14th: I’m restraining from using black as long as possible, if at all. Layers of Pthalos blue, Burnt Umber, plus all the other colors eventually creates livlier versions of dark values. I may move the location of the light source today so that it’s not so obvious; a less direct effect will probably be more interesting and not so “usual” or predictable - I’m looking for the unpredictable.
June 13th: Above Left and right details of today’s work. I have done a few layers of various color washes (Acrylics with matte medium) since removing most of the masking medium, and am about to apply more of it again in the raindrop areas (applied with the toothpicks and paper pencils - see also May 3, 5, 9, 17th and May 23rd posts).
The painting is so large, heavy and awkward to move, so photos are where it stands inside for now. The colors are mostly accurate, just a little dull. The dark seen here is actually not so dark…will take photos under natural lighting conditions when it’s nearer to completion.
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