“In, Into”, 36” x 36”, Acrylic on Canvas
Busy, busy, busy... and not just with work. In my spare time, I've been collecting ideas and slowly working toward a more personal style but also aiming for something that connects with other people.
I found myself talking with another artist today about approaches to working. My acquaintance sketches everything in detail and moves from one developing picture to another, cribbing ideas that can be used elsewhere, slowly developing ideas that are refined through many sketches. I work by visualising what it is that I want to produce and over a period of months I will let that initial visualisation morph as I pick up even more ideas. Sometimes, the emerging image will be totally different to the one that I initially imagined, on rarer occasions, I return to the original image. Everything is consciously done subconsciously even for figurative or landscape images. The final part of the process is visualising exactly how I am going to produce the picture right down to the angle of a brushstroke.
The jpg doesn't quite do justice to the painting which has an almost pearlescent effect, changing according to the light and in my opinion, looking better in low light when all the colours leap out and forge a greater sense of depth. For a ‘red’ picture, this painting has a lot of pthalo blue, umbers and siennas in the mix.
