“Bernhard’s World No.2”, 36” x 36”, Acrylic on canvas...appeared. That’s 2 out of 4 in the planned series. It felt really good to paint this one and feelings are the key to this picture (as they were with the first one too) as opposed to any reasoned statement about the world, human affairs and blah blah blah.
Still, I did start in my usual way with a black canvas and then with a white chalk pencil, ‘carved up’ the canvas into sectors, marking out key compositional elements. To say that the picture then ‘painted itself’ simply wouldn’t be true: as with any other painting, most of the work is done before a single dab of paint touches the canvas.
It’s all in the mind you see...
