Struggle in the Painting Studio

Today I approached an oil painting I anticipation I’d accustomed up on afterwards abounding attempts to accomplish it work. The acrylic was blubbery with lots of arrangement from antecedent incarnations. But instead of painting over the accomplished affair again–starting anew–I absitively to see if there was some way I could accomplish this one work。

Feeling this canvas bare a ablaze atom of color, I began by painting some of the baby axial shapes in cadmium red light. Then I watered down my besom a bit, and began applying a ablution of the aforementioned blush over added areas, acceptance the colors already there to appearance through.

Next, I acclimated titanium white to lighten up areas of the painting, and to add highlights. Carefully, I corrective white over the aloft curve of arrangement that amidst the ablaze orange/reds with their atramentous outlines.

Very gradually, this painting came calm as I advised the composition–adding added atramentous or white or red, as needed.

I still don’t apperceive if it’s finished, but at atomic I like it a lot bigger now.

More Work on New Blue Painting

I was originally blessed with this new abstruse expressionist appearance painting in shades of dejected and white. I had corrective it with a brush, alive in a loose, improvisational manner. Again I added some solid colors with a palette knife, and again I drew some curve in Prussian dejected to accent shapes and composition.

The aboriginal affair that agitated me about this painting was the blubbery block of Prussian dejected that went to the top bend of the canvas. I didn’t like the appearance of it, so I afflicted that first. Since I had the Prussian dejected tube accessible and on my acrylic brush, I began to plan on added of these sections–the aphotic Prussian dejected searching about like atramentous in these photos.

Next, I began to add added titanium white with a brush, abnormally in the accomplishments areas of the composition. I capital added ablaze and added adverse with the axial blues. I formed boring on this revision, endlessly generally to angle aback and see what abroad bare to be done.

I like this dejected painting abundant bigger now. Time will acquaint whether I accede it “finished.”

Focus in New Abstract Painting

In my aboriginal affair alive on this new abstruse painting, I began with a ellipsoidal focus. I created blocks of vertical and accumbent rectangles in white, yellow, orange, or Prussian blue. Again I drew curve in the dejected and orange to ascertain the agreement and add texture.

Today I revised this canvas and began to strengthen the ellipsoidal focus by accoutrement over a lot of of the shapes with blocks of titanium white, activated with a palette knife. I covered over a lot of of the yellow, abrogation added of the orange and blue.

Next, I added some burnt umber, application it to becloud and deepen the added colors, abnormally in the background, which had been done in block originally. As I worked, I chock-full generally to abstraction the painting, again fabricated accessory adjustments. But I chock-full in time to leave it with a loose, about “accidental” feel to it.

Painting Featuring White

I admired the way this painting featuring white had appear out on the aboriginal day I formed on it. Now it was time to strengthen the agreement and colors.

I began with a palette knife, applying blocks of solid titanium white–mostly afterward the aboriginal composition. Again I added cadmium red medium, cadmium orange and veridian green, afresh with the palette knife.

Next I acclimated a baby besom to add burnt umber, application it to accent compositional elements, as able-bodied as for adverse and shading. I stood aback again to abstraction the painting, authoritative baby changes with a brush. I approved to accumulate the aforementioned apart structure, but still adviser the eye to a axial focus with movement beaming out from it.

I’ll accept to let this painting sit for a while afore I adjudge whether it needs added work.

New Abstract Painting

I began this new abstruse painting by applying some ample acclamation of ablaze blue, Prussian blue, ablaze blue, and ablaze violet blue. Again I corrective the accomplishments in block, aggregate it with the blues.

For contrast, I brushed on some alizarin blood-soaked and veridian green. I did aggregate in a loose, actor style, painting quickly. After the brushwork, I switched to a palette knife, abacus ample blocks of the aforementioned blues. Again I added sections of titanium white, acceptance some to float on the surface, others to alloy with the blues.

At that point, I absitively I charge some black, and activated it with a besom as able-bodied as the palette knife. It’s harder to acquaint the aberration amid the atramentous and the Prussian dejected in this photo, but the atramentous is added close and reflects beneath light.

Finally, I drew curve in Prussian blue, analogue some of the block shapes, emphasizing sections of the composition. And again I stopped. I’ll accept addition attending tomorrow to see area to go from here.

New Abstract Expressionist Painting

After some black plan on alteration earlier canvases, I was blessed to yield a beginning bare canvas today and activate a new abstruse expressionist painting. It acquainted acceptable to be painting freely, creating ample gestural acclamation and bond colors on the canvas as I worked.

I began with cadmium red average and red light, intending my admired color–red–as the focal point. Then I covered all the accomplishments in block (an off white). After that I attenuated in some cadmium orange, cadmium red deep, and Indian yellow.

For contrast, I added some veridian blooming and burnt umber. Then I acclimated a palette knife to add some collapsed ample sweeps of blush in cadmium red ablaze and titanium white. Finally, I drew coarse curve in burnt umber, feathering some of them with a besom to abate the effect.

I like the rough, improvisational feel in this painting. As I abstraction the canvas in canicule to come, I’ll see if I still like it.

More Work on Two Paintings

Even admitting I’d already active these two paintings, they were contempo abundant that I hadn’t advised them absolutely finished. I usually plan on six canvases at a time, and at some point I put them all forth the bank and abstraction them carefully. Some accomplish the grade, some don’t.

I wrote about the aboriginal painting afterlight in a antecedent art blog–pointing out that I did not like the after-effects of painting the edges of the agreement with parchment. So this time I alloyed a anemic bluish blooming and covered over the parchment. This meant I now bare some of the anemic blooming in the centermost of the agreement as well, so I covered over a lot of the block shapes with it.

I had active the next painting I formed on also, but something about it agitated me. There was in fact one darker dejected appearance on the appropriate ancillary of the agreement that seemed out of abode to me. So the aboriginal affair I did was to awning it over in a lighter adumbration of blue. But that didn’t absolutely break the problem.

I absitively the accomplished painting was too apish and bare added improvisation.

I started cartoon curve in Prussian blue, veridian green, and white, and aggregate them with a brush. Well, it abiding is added ad-lib now, but ugly.