Tag: process
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Painting larger, process
Here are some progress images from a new 3×4 foot painting where I’m layering abstractions based loosely on photos from my walks in nature. I’ve been interested in how music influences the improvisational aspects of my mark making, and as such I am making this painting while listening to a single album on repeat –…
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Experiments
After doing some observation works, my energy changes and I am drawn to further and further abstraction.
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Not now, but soon
Four nights ago I heard the sweet call of fantastic vision. Hope of a life well-lived and uniquely played …
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Differentiation of self
A few years ago, I came to realize that I had a problem with self-differentiation. In my most important relationships I was being driven by a deep-seated fear of rejection and abandonment. My sense of self was WAY too tied up in others and outside forces.
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More painting experiments
I’ve had the Sayre Park painting hanging in the living room to observe for the past few weeks. It’s been a great reminder of the kind of work i don’t want to do.
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Loch Lake: session 2
Covered a lot of ground and had a really fun painting session last night. I blocked in more of the hills and mountains in the distance, and put in a couple of washes on the lake itself. I expect the final painting to not look much like this at all, but it’s heading in the…
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A big scale-up
Put in time last night doing an underdrawing and putting some paint down on this 48×36″ panel. Lately i’ve been trying to just work on whatever i’m drawn to in the moment, and last night I was feeling this big one. I lost a little momentum looking for the right source photo. to work from.…
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Gestural landscape practice
Working on freeing myself up a bit more, so I’m going to be making some low-risk, low-stakes landscapes on paper. This scene is inspired by a photograph I took on my hike to Chasm Lake, just after climbing above the treeline.
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A very good painting session
Everything about this roughly two hour painting session felt good. It had its ups and downs but more often than not I was experiencing a flow state. I succeeded in not overworking anything, and I now have a clear vision of where this painting will end. I am toying with a tone change in the…