Friday, January 24, 2014

I wish spring were a WIP *

Can you see all the problems I'm going to have with THIS experiment?  For one thing, I have NO idea what  will end up being the top or bottom.  All bets are off.  For another, I already wish I'd either used bigger paper or smaller images, so that I had lots more open space/background. That's the place I save for pattern (my favorite part), so you KNOW this one is going to be exceptionally busy upon completion. Oh well, it will be fun.
When I started this,  the image and the cold weather had me convinced I was saving some of the crocus blossom shapes for intense yellow, at least something springy and intense to contrast with the myriad of grays I'm having fun mixing.    But along the way, just a drop of the quin.burnt orange got in there, and I liked its unexpected contrast to the grays.  Crocus color would have just been . . . normal.  I'm also trying to break up the crocus blossoms as I go, to make it less literal, and for the same reason, I'm thinking that I don't really want the bright colors to be in the blossom shapes.

* hard to imagine spring lurking anywhere in the vicinity. How are YOUR heating bills looking? Got your long underwear on? I do!

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  1. I think the painting looks great right now! kind of graphic. The cold is just overwhelming isn't it though. Enjoy your painting

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    1. Already ruined. Did a dark background. Looking back at this image, I like it SOOOO much better than the new reality. Oh well. I'll figure out what I learned from it .. . I hope.

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  2. Great shapes. I like the thoughtfulness of your process ...
    Had to buy heating oil today: egads. I think it'd be cheaper to spend next winter in Florida.
    ps I tried your method of overlapping tracings of my own drawing; posted the result yesterday. It was fun--thank you for the idea.

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    1. Your result looked more successful than mine is by now. I'm ignoring it until tomorrow, and hoping it's not as bad as I think. Wish I'd stopped sooner!

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