Tuesday, April 19, 2011

"Chums" after Edward Henry Potthast


"Chums" after
Edward Henry Potthast
(4x4") - 201118
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Wow. Always while I'm painting, I try to make mental notes of the various and sundry things that I'd like to write about. Things that occur to me only while I'm in the mode. When I finished this one, I thought to myself "I'll take a laundry folding break, then come post and blog about the work.... it'll be great because there were a number of ah ha moments this time....surely I'll remember everything!" Not so. What does stand out, once again, is the remarkable way that a very tiny change in any one artistic element can make or break a painting. Scary, don't you agree? What if I don't know what the one thing is? The more I paint; the more that's revealed; the more confidence I have moving forward. Ironically, I suppose, these tiny paintings that I've been doing for about a year now seem at first to be a 180 degree turn from the direction I was heading about 4 years ago. I needed a B I G space to explore my big voice, and I encourage everyone to do that somewhere along their painting way. The space I need now doesn't have to be so big. I'm finding a way to use my big voice in a small space, if you will, so maybe it's just a 90 degree turn. These studies have sharpened my understanding of value and color temperature - how things can still read successfully without so much contrast guiding the eye over the images.
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