After all my experimentation and dozens of studies my perseverance begins to pay off. It’s as though I have taken all that work into myself and now it is time for it to re-surface.
The previous painting was like a quiet starter to get the juices flowing and the hand moving. The middle ground is there waiting for me and I dive right in with this series of "free" abstracts:
Free Emotion #1, acrylics on paper, 61x45cm.Vertical strokes of pure colour counterbalanced by horizontals. Lively and bright, happy and sunny.
A change of mood:
Free Emotion #2, acrylics on paper, 61x45cm.Dark, foreboding, anxious, irritable, sad.
On a roll now:
Free Emotion #3, acrylics on paper, 61x45cm.A mixture of cool blues and scarlet reds suggesting to me 'embarassment' - a flushed face (yes that's what I see!), and a cold sweat.
Another change of mood:
Free Emotion #4, acrylics on paper, 61x45cm.I always love yellows combined with greys and blues, they appear to me to be very calm, serene even.
But what is this? Is that yet another face I see?
I am definitely beginning to see subliminal faces, not intentionally, but as Harry Nilsson sang, "You see what you wanna see, and hear what you wanna hear" [from "The Point"].
I can see I am going to have to give in to this directional prodding I am getting and start painting faces again!
Final painting in this series:
Free Emotion #5, acrylics on paper, 61x45cm.This one took the longest and is much more multi-coloured. Perhaps mixed-emotions? This is my favourite of them all, and sure enough there is a face looking back at me. It's a jolly clowns face, but as is the way with clowns, there is also a sadness. Is that a tear I see?
I will call this painting "Tears of a Clown".
With the completion of this series I felt that I had achieved my aim and that these could stand for this project.
But I still wasn't finished yet. There is yet more to come. Tomorrow.
2 comments:
I've been away for a long time (and with good reason -- as you know) so I have a lot to catch up with. . . but I must say "extraordinary!" and "I may die of envy."
Acrylic seems to be your medium -- the paintings are alive and unfolding in way that the studies (yes I know they're studies) are not. The studies seem much more static to me. They're interesting because I don't yet see how one takes you to the other but, as I said I have a lot to catch up with.
I'll be curious to hear what your own assessments and reactions are when you get back from your holiday. Time away from a project, especially one so large and involving, can be fruitful.
bon voyage, mon ami.
Melanie
wv: logeni, a pocket-size versatility? I'm not expressing this well -- something like "the ability to do something quick, lively, and resourceful on short notice with limited means and much panache"
What a joy for me to recieve your comments, Melanie, and very pleased to see you back surfing the cyberwaves.
You will see from the series of postings I will be making this coming week that while I did consider these present acrylics paintings to be good enough to stand for this project I still felt the need to go one step further. I enjoy very much working with acrylics and thank you for your appreciation for what I have done with them, but I enjoy using oils even more since I can manipulate them for longer and build up better textures (which I want to do even more of). I hope you will see what I mean when I post up my final series of paintings for this project. I am excited by them and I hope that "logeni" comes through for you to see :o)
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