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- A subject is chosen
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- Basic lights and darks with whatever colors I can grab.
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- Began to unify and edit.
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- Back to re-emphsizing structure
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- Refining structure with larger areas of contrast, especially in the foreground. I like boat shapes and being on water, Maybe this becomes abouot boats??
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- Adding more light–it’s so easy to get too dark.
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- Inspired by a glaze already mixed–a pallete begins to emerge.
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- Glaze most of the painting. I’m excited at this stage, but no more time to paint.
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- Two days later–can’t find original subject. I google the same geographic area and find this photo I connect with. Love the sweeping energy of the white across the page.
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- Turned painting upside down and lay in the shapes in lights and darks of new subject.
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- Turned paintng upside down again. (as it originally began) Unifying areas, lookng for a sense of sky. I’m always attracted to horizens.
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- Liking the previous variation, but not particularly excited, wanting to push into someplace I haven’t been before, I grab some black for bold darks and began to play with intense colors. Begin to “coach” out original structure.
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- Unifyng dark areas. Again, a mixed glaze intrigues, so I apply it to much of the piece.
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- Adjusting color. Capitivated by the velvety dark and outrageous berry color. Never have used a palette like this. Time to quit for the day. Next studio day I will spend time analyzing compositional structure and work to develop tension AND harmony. But the biggest question will be “what connects me to this? Where is the strongets pull?” Do I keep color or use it as a base for a creamy white veil? Do I add more contrast or make an evening glow? Simlify or make more complex? What does it want to be about? Where do I want it to take me? Where do I hope it might lead a viewer? Do I want it to relate to the rest of the work in the studio? Maybe I just want to explore the mood of color in similarly structured landscapes? Don’t know yet. I will think about this painting as I fall asleep and as I ready for tomorrow. I might reveiw work by artists I admire and see what they can tell me about my work. Do I want to emulate them, or go the other way? Hopefully there will a time to stop thinking about it after I ponder the questions? We’ll see what happens.
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