Let Go - Be Brave - Follow Your Intuition!
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The Finished Paintings.The Process...The Following is a step by step progress of how the paintings came into being. Its all about letting go and going with my intuition.
To begin I decided to limit my palette to muted golds and browns with turquoise and to paint the 3 canvases in unison.
Base Coats |
I started with a base of white Gesso, then brushed on acrylic paint in Ochre, Sienna, Umber and Brown
Mark Making
Letting the base colours dry before adding - Swirls,
dots, stripes, stamping and stencils
Ink Dripping
The fun part! - Acrylic Ink
in Turquoise and Orange, dripped then misted and sprayed with water.
Area Sectioning
With loose lines
of brush strokes lightly ‘skipped’ across the canvas in black acrylic I sectioned off areas and then outlined shapes that appeared from the background.
This is the point at which the doubts began to creep in. Invading my good mood and making me apprehensive and unsure. I almost gave in to the doubts and gave up poised with the gesso to whitewash it all and start again - Keep going I told myself, just keep on - keeping on....
Creating Negative Space
Adding blocks of
white.
Colour Blocking
Adding
blocks of colour to areas along with Metallic gold and Metallic gold details.
The Finishing Touches
Close ups of the finished Individual Canvases
The three canvases are now framed with simple black frames and ready to hang (Click Here to enquire!) I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. And I was even flexible with the colour scheme letting some bright orange creep in that I think really lifted the colour.
The thoughts that were going through my head while working on these pieces were things such as... Life goes on, Life Cycles, Its all happening perfectly, One mans ending is another's beginning (Crowded House), circle of life, potential, expecting, expectation......
Now if I could just think of some titles! Any Ideas???
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