. . . and that changed everything.
I want candy
So as I mentioned previously, once I got the background in everything changed. Well . . . shifted.
I’m not sure that I “really” like this piece at this stage. It still isn’t what I got in my head. I enjoy the background mark making until I stand back and then it just looks like someone spewed a bunch of Mike & Ikes (fruity jelly bean like candy shaped like . . . well like the shapes in my painting.) all over it. Maybe it’s some sort of diabetic Freudian slip.
But for now I must move on. I will set it aside and work on it after I take a break to gain some perspective. I still plan to use it for my Halloween image so it won’t get set aside for very long.
Uncooperative
It is Sunday and my hopes of another day of creating in solitude are dashed. My husband refused to be banned from the gallery today. This almost always lowers the whole creative process for me. Absolute solitude is usually only important at the beginning of a painting. After I get something started . . . you know hooked into my muse . . . I can work amongst a crowd.
At any rate since he was here the vans were parked out front and the door was left unlocked. And yes. . . we actually had a customer. Which of course is good, but again does not equal solitude. Nor does assisting someone while wearing lounge pants, a horse slobber stained sweat shirt and no make-up, give me that warm and fuzzy feeling of comfort.
But Mike left early, So I have locked my doors and now I’ll begin the new piece. Unless once I return to the front room the Raven calls, and I can’t resist working on it some more.
Tags: WIP
So….Mike is a distraction! I do like the colors in this–the reds in the background. And as I showed you, if you turn this 90 degrees and add just a little nose, you’d have a rabbit. Of course, you’d want to change colors. But you might try it.
Hey Clara,
It was so good to see you the other day. I feel a little bad since we didn’t get to talk much. I get easily distracted when dealing with more than one person. I hope you had a pleasant stay in Rolfe.
After you left I did turn it on it’s side again to take another look. You know people are always telling me I need to do more rabbits.
Hi, Mona, I loved the marks you were making on the crow in the last post. I think your background marks are very interesting, I have been staring at it trying to figure out why it isn’t working yet. Seems to me that it might work better if there were more darks, like the dark red/burgundy in amongst the red/yellow you have already a little and more dark blues in amoung the greens. Just my opinion at this point. Sorry about your day, hope it went better later. I like little stretches of solitude, too, to get started especially, also — very hard to maintain. People see my time as open now much more than when I was working fulltime traditional job and are more offended when I say no now, though I need to start saying it more to keep my art time.
It’s a weird painting. There are more darks off screen (in the cropped out portion) and yet it still feels like it lacks contrast. Like if I turned it all B&W it would be totally flat. Ah well. I’m giving it a rest for now and started a preliminary drawing of a Friesian. Hopefully will get something postable by this weekend. My next mag deadline is looming in a few weeks so need to do something horse.